Merkezi Istihbarat Quotes & Sayings

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten. — James P. Carse

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go. — Thomas Traherne

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected. — Theodore Dalrymple

You have this thing you call . . . boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song - it went "Twinkle twinkle little star. . . ." What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming! Completely — Terry Pratchett

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith. — John McCain

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman. — Madame De Stael

You are my dreams, Chey. You're everything I never thought I'd have. You're the brightest light in my darkest days. — Nicole Edwards

Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct. — Steven Brust

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. — Arne Glimcher

We know that the Furies do not come uninvited. — Katherine Anne Porter

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be. — Mark McGrath

Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes," I say,
"I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks.
"Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?"
"Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet. — Charles Bukowski