Aldrich Ames Quotes

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

Aldrich Ames

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• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • God
  • Man

• The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Reason
  • Conformity

• Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Poverty
  • Studies
  • Evils

• The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

  

  Hayden Fry
  • College
  • Preparation
  • Valuable

• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • People
  • Mean
  • Heaven

• I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.

  

  Jon Gruden

• If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

  

  Heraclitus
  • Soul
  • Search
  • Traveled

• Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Goal

• Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Compassion
  • Crime
  • Religions

• I will never forget that Game 7 as long as I play the game of basketball.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Game
  • Play
  • Basketball

• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Falsehood

• Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believes
  • Told
  • Man Is

• The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

  

  William Blake
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Men
  • Love
  • Works

• Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Knows
  • Victim
  • Traitor

• I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Rose
  • Instant

• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Action
  • inspirational
  • Traitor

• But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • Time
  • Teach
  • Accepting

• I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

  

  Aldrich Ames
  • Traitor