#us

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#had #i #injury #level #retire

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. ↗

— John Amery

#allowed #been #brought #constitution #corpus

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. ↗

— John Amery

#any #being #bias #civilization #come

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#credit #deciding #person #task #trust

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#goal #good #like #makes #strenuous

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#double #fed #giving #i #kgb

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

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

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#comfort #enters #guest #host #house