Aldrich Ames Quotes
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
Aldrich Ames
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
Zach LaVine
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
Pamela Stephenson
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
Waris Dirie
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
Alexander Meiklejohn
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.
Kip Thorne
I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
W. A. Criswell
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
Abraham Lincoln
First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
Epictetus
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.
George Washington
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
Aldrich Ames
