Double Agent - Events in Which Double Agents Played An Important Role

Famous quotes containing the words events in, events, double, agents, played, important and/or role:

“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

“Tony Abbott: I didn’t know you played a saxophone.
Joe Pendleton: Yeah, well, a lot of people don’t know it. Even after they see me playing it they don’t know it.”
—Seton I. Miller (1902–1974)

“The most important part of teaching = to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Women’s battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.”
—Paula Nelson (b. 1945)