Funny Secret Agent Quotes & Sayings

Jeb: But I need to tell you something first.
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson

In some countries - Finland and Singapore and South Korea, for instance - future schoolteachers are recruited from the best college-bound students, whereas a teacher in the United States is more likely to come from the bottom half of her class. — Anonymous

He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.'
Yeah. So?'
The Infected I can manage.'
She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?'
Well,' he said, I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.'
What's the other half?'
He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me. — Derek Landy

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle. — Inbee Park

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science. — Samuel Johnson

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer. — Albert Einstein

It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost. — Wilfrid Sheed

Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille