#han

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#back #been #betrayal #done #espionage

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ever #feeling #had #handled #i

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#more #never #others #ourselves #than

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion

McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge. But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#friendly-fire #insubordination #london #obama #pat-tillman

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#inspirational #change

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#soul #spiritual-growth #change

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#any #had #i #jobs #living

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#half #i #know #less #like

Znao sam da je sve moje dovedeno u pitanje. Sve — to je veoma neodređeno, ali i veoma stvarno. To je izgubljenost i bespuće, to je ispadanje sa životne staze a druga ne postoji, to je osjećanje užasa bez imena, zbog praznine i gluhog prostora što bi se mogao stvoriti oko tebe. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#losing-everything #change