These are quotes that I either like or have a significance to me in some way.  I will add to these as I come across others.

My mission is to figure out who the audience is, and take them where they want and need to go.
— Seth Godin

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently reveal what their words are calculated to conceal.
— Lord Chesterfield (1964-1773), Letter to his Son

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Leadership is not about position, a title, or status. It is about influence. Plain and simple.
— Michael Hyatt

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She was barely four foot eleven and did not look as though she could put up much resistance if he were an assailant who had forced his way into her apartment. But her eyes were expressionless and calm.
– Blomkvist after threat from Slander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy. I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God: that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I’ll be the last to step off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together, so help me God.
— Mel Gibson as Lt. Moore in We were soldiers

I find that when looking for [implementation based] security vulnerabilities it is good to start with places where developers probably don’t really know what they are doing, but feel really good about the solutions that they have come up with.
— moxie@thoughtcrime.org

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
— Adrienne Rich

Decisions made in real time are never perfect. Don’t second guess an operation from an arm chair.
— Noah Vosen, The Bourne – Ultimatum

You know the service Jack, they don’t like bright lights in dark places.
— Ros Myers, Spooks – Just Missed

Tell me one thing, if you had to go into battle would you want him with you?
— Viper, Top Gun

Be wary of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
— Pravin Lal, Alpha Centauri Trilogy

People have a pattern, a rhythm like a behavioral fingerprint.
— Agent-in-charge McGrath, Die Trying by Lee Child

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
— William Feather

Trauma is a team sport. You don’t have to be the hero, you just have to go where you are needed.
— Dr. Owen Hunt – Grey’s Anatomy

Everyone wants something, tell me what you want?
- Adrian – La Femme Nikita

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
- BackTrack

See what happens when you put a bunch of guys together that work hard and like what they do. Things get done.
- Mike Holmes

There is rarely consensus where billions of dollars are at stake.
- Mark J. McArdle

When you are young it is easy to distinguish between right and wrong. When you are older it gets more difficult. The heroes and villains get all mixed up.
- Mathis, Quantum of Solace

Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
- unknown (but I credit it to my mother)

Coincidence is merely lack of full knowledge of the facts.
- Temperance Brennan, Devil Bones.

Consensus is reached by convincing with solid evidence, not by proclamation.
- Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute (CBC June 13)

If we follow the book, they die!
- Andrew Vanderlee, The Guard

If a man contends with you, choose not his death, but your life.
- Master Po, Kungfu – The Assasin

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
- Senator Chris Dodd

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a distinct difference between secrecy and privacy.
- Alanis Morissette, Interview

Not to understand a man’s purpose does not make him confused.
- Master Po – The Vanishing Image

No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we’ve gotta go someplace and fight, you fellas always give us a ride.
- Lt. Kendrick, A Few Good Men.