"Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually."

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Ally Carter

#Skills Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Spy Quotes

“If you want to be a leader, go lead”
“Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.”
“It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.”
“Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.”
“I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.”
“May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.”
“I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.”
“I think I have enough to be successful out there.”

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