Hidden Agendas Quotes

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navy’s most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of a large city and hardly miss a word.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun

1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might have been was now hindsight—the United States was at war and was in it to win. He spoke quietly to his secretary, Grace Tully. “Sit down, Grace. I’m going before Congress tomorrow. I’d like to dictate my message. It will be short.” ”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\

1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
― Anthony Liccione

“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“… Exhausting climbs lay ahead. It was Sunday … May 17th … The path seemed to climb from dawn till dusk, the rain poured down nearly all day. The mud was worse than ever, and more slippery. Maggie, the elephant, was heavily laden, and at one time it seemed hopeless to expect her to struggle up those towering hills … as the light was going we reached the camp, we found it only a huddle of shelters already occupied on a hill-top 4000 ft high, across which a cold wind swept … Dr Russell”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade”
― Justin Bienvenue, The Macabre Masterpiece

“Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.”
― Henry Cloud

“There are many hidden truths behind a lie”
― Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

“This woman was just another lover, another way of getting through
the dark. He was not going to go feeling simply because she did.
However, there was no harm in smiling too, like a soft, boyish fool, in the
darkness where no one could see it.”
― India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches

“They smile in our faces with hidden agendas in plain sight for those with eyes to see.
you 'see not' is what it really seems, actually it really is.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“The war is just the different name for successful business.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pomračenje

“Famous temper like Sonny Corleone
Hidden agenda like Michael Corleone
I’m El Padrino like Vito Corleone
You're not a leader, you're Fredo Corleone”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime, violation, or wrong. Guilt desires to remain hidden, hence, the paying for confessions to alleviate responsibility. Where shame separates you from social and cultural obedience, guilt brings you closer to the deceiver such as religion. Guilt is dancing with the devil and calling yourself good.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“I don't know what you're getting yourself into," said Majid, "but I know I don't like it. Some things in Venice are pure poison." Majid's eyes looked like they could bore through a stone wall. "If someone has put you on a demon's tracks, you'd better make sure the demon doesn't find you first."

"What's that supposed to mean," asked Mathias.

"It means behind every hand stained with blood there's another, and that one stays clean." Majid leaned in close, lowering his voice to a whisper. "What I'm saying is that behind a demon, there's always someone holding the creature on a leash.”
― Riccardo Bruni, The Lion and the Rose

“Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“Different looks like accepting a relationship in its current state, then expecting it will remain forever; instead of monitoring to address topics that are hidden or in plain sight.”
― Dexter A. Daniels, Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return

“Be careful, because sometimes convenience is laced with poison.”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse, Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud

“Transparency in government would be nice!”
― Steven Magee

“It seems we will be waiting a really long time before we see transparency in government.”
― Steven Magee