Spy Cops Quotes & Sayings

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton

The canon is finished. Anyone who believes that one can construct a canon from the tidal wave of narrative produced today is guilty of wishful thinking. All we will have is a record of who won the prizes and achieved celebrity status. But, perhaps, the canon was always a fairly heavy-handed tool and little more than a convenience. The only thing is to follow one's nose and listen carefully to the way others talk about books, learn who's opinion takes you to interesting places. — Tim Parks

People aren't always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can't just meet someone and expect them to be everything you're looking for and then be angry when they're not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It's foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better. — Chloe Rattray

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever. — Yara Shahidi

As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert. — Michael Weston

All my contemporaries
hundred-and-fivers or convicts
will tell you how we lived
in barely sentient fear, raising
children for the executioner,
prison, or the torture chamber. — Anna Akhmatova

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard. — Regina Brett

Before there can be change there must be discontent. — Paul Bowles

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs. — Lynn Jurich

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food. — Anna Nicole Smith

My work is a game, a very serious game. — M.C. Escher

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121) — Edward Conze