True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed…

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…

— Hannah Arendt

“Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, “I’m fine, I’m not really loving your social skills though. Don’t you know this is no way…

— Nicole Rae

“If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location,…

— Holly Black

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine…

— Stephen Kinzer

What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's…

— Angela Davis

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range…

— Tony Blair

“That’s funny. You would think after being followed and shoved into a dark alley by a stranger, you would be at least a little…

— Nicole Rae

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies,…

— Sam Keen

“I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer…

— George Tenet

How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The situation they [journalists and Edward Snowden] were in was incredibly heightened. The stakes were high. There was a lot of pressure, a lot…

— Zachary Quinto