I suppose you could say that the Russians had a big appetite for life, or you could say they were dissolute and decadent, which was the opposite side of the same ruble.
I know who didn’t kill her. Don’t
How you doing at 26 Fed? I’m growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills. I’m surprised they haven’t fired your ass....
Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
There are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is cynicism, there are dreams that can come true, and dreams that can’t. And there was a...
Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. And if your shooting stance is good, you’re probably not moving fast enough.
An officer and a gentleman by an act of Congress, but an asshole by choice. The military also discourages
You don’t bother to hate what you think is contemptible.
When you’re dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don’t always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.
When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When Jack Colby first came aboard The Maine looking for a job, wearing a T-shirt that said: Wounded Combat Vet—Some Reassembly Required
What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move? You hope the other guy makes a bad move.
Thoreau’s philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you’ve read about them all.
They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs. It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there...
The guy did okay for himself.
The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy.
Tad and Alison, according to the itinerary, would be giving lectures on Cuban culture, time and place TBA, which I think means To Be Avoided.
One can be a product only of one’s own era, not anyone else’s.
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.