Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Careless talk costs lives.

We are a sensational team.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.