“Their lips met with a tender and powerful force. At that point, they melted into each other and Seth felt a flush of sensations over his entire being. Hands wandered naturally, and each caress became more exciting and pleasurable. Where the body ended and the soul began was a mystery in this ancient game of combinations.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“You will always be a puppet on someone else’s line if you don’t care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“If you’re not looking for the right thing, you can’t be disappointed if you don’t get it.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“If you knew when your last day of life was going to be, it was the best place to spend your last night on earth, because in Russia people party like tomorrow will never come.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“There was a chemical solution to all of America’s food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He was a playboy type in his late 30’s, and a sharp dresser, tonight being no exception. Dave wore a designer sports jacket and chic designer jeans; not at all what you would expect from an FBI agent’s undercover expense budget. His wife (or whoever she was), Julia, was a conservative dresser, with more of what you would expect an FBI agent to be wearing. She had mousy brown hair, spoke in nasal tones, and was somewhat frumpy; not much to look at. They went together about as well as Brad Pitt and a den mother from Davenport Iowa.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Leave it to a woman to notice all of the little details that men often ignore.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American people while I was gone?”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“I think you know how it works, Senator. The big chemical companies fill the coffers of one of your colleagues who is a lawmaker from an agricultural state such as, well, let’s take Iowa, for example, and the lawmaker recommends the president to install industry executives in high positions, such as the head of the FDA or the EPA, and, this way, the industry can approve its own products without safety testing.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Seth’s clock had been set on survival so long that he didn’t realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
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“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quote from The Sorrows of Young Werther
“A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Walk in the Woods
“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
On me alone it blew.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, quote from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they overhear for the first time a beautiful woman’s undiluted, full-strength opinion of their masculine selves.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Bonfire of the Vanities
“The difference between a criminal and an outlaw is that while criminals frequently are victims, outlaws never are. Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized. All people who live subject to other people's laws are victims. People who break laws out of greed, frustration, or vengeance are victims. People who overturn laws in order to replace them with their own laws are victims. ( I am speaking here of revolutionaries.) We outlaws, however, live beyond the law. We don't merely live beyond the letter of the law-many businessmen, most politicians, and all cops do that-we live beyond the spirit of the law. In a sense, then, we live beyond society. Have we a common goal, that goal is to turn the tables on the 'nature' of society. When we succeed, we raise the exhilaration content of the universe. We even raise it a little bit when we fail.
When war turns whole populations into sleepwalkers, outlaws don't join forces with alarm clocks. Outlaws, like poets, rearrange the nightmare.
The trite mythos of the outlaw; the self-conscious romanticism of the outlaw; the black wardrobe of the outlaw; the fey smile of the outlaw; the tequila of the outlaw and the beans of the outlaw; respectable men sneer and say 'outlaw'; young women palpitate and say 'outlaw'. The outlaw boat sails against the flow; outlaws toilet where badgers toilet. All outlaws are photogenic. 'When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.' There are outlaw maps that lead to outlaw treasures. Unwilling to wait for mankind to improve, the outlaw lives as if that day were here. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Still Life with Woodpecker
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