“ Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself. MacKenzie Taylor
“ You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided. Criss Jami
“ Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that’s the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can’t fight all your battles with the same weapons. Bryan Keyleader
“ Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned and stared straight at him, some carnal fire burning in his eyes now. Pyotr walked… Talon P.S.
“ New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father. Patricia Briggs
“ We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we… August Krogh
“ The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Eco… Rachel Maddow
“ Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fello… Massad Ayoob
“ So? I know damn well that I didn’t poison her.”Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder Gabrielle Black
“ You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said! James Scott
“ The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is noth… James Scott
“ Between the black box proprietary code, barebones computers we call voting machines and a mass of completely unqualified election officials, our election system is up for grabs to anybody with even a… James Scott
“ This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punish… William Landay
“ There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our honor… Kyriacos C. Markides
“ There's nothing as useful as the truth, in terms of ruining anyone's day, week, month, year, decade, or life… Unless, of course, you own a remotely operated automatic flamethrower-drone-tower and have… Will Advise
“ This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain. Sherry Argov
“ When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been publi… Homer W. Smith
“ Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination. Steven Pinker
“ There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye,… Charles Dickens
