You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men,
Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.
I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, i...
You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.
It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.
As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were … things … about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in...
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war.
For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.
They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.
There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.
I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!
Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
Followed – even now at this moment.’ The one-time beggar
There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without dis...
Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does.