Quotes of: Intelligence-agencies Keyword

Brian Taylor: Not every call's a foot pursuit or a car chase. Some guys at other agencies have never even drawn their weapon or been in a gun fight. Mike Zavala: Yeah, but here that's just half your shift. Brian Taylor: In the South end, we'll get in...

End of Watch

In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at last act from its own resources and deliberate impulse, it is influenced through the feeling and the understanding in such a manner...

William Burton Pope

…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important… it’s almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they’re robots and forget altogether that they’re real, living people… but eve...

Smog City

The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way we try to understand change through time. The present ...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Cold Comfort Farm

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

The Chemickal Marriage

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Cinema

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Dom Wars: Round Six

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Ender's Game

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Billy Budd, Sailor

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Comte de Lautreamont

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Krista Tippett

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Bibhu Mohapatra

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

Eddie Redmayne

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

2312

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ : Chapter 19]

3001: The Final Odyssey

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

All the Pretty Horses