Want to back out?” Jill let out a long breath. “No. I’ve always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.
Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
However, you are just as dead if you buy a farm in an “incident” as you are if you buy it in a declared war.
He was looking that way now and the projected print moved along the screen, but he was not really reading but simply avoiding the eyes of his boss across the table. Mrs. Douglas did not read newspapers; she had other ways of finding out what she needed to know.
The duty of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is to oppose.
I would be – and will be – much disappointed in you if you ever simply injure a policeman. A wounded policeman is more dangerous than a wounded lion.
I told you when you hired him that – ” “When I hired him?” “Don’t interrupt. – that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.
The Mother Thing makes our world.
I’m not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, for everybody. The greatest good of the greatest number, as you are so fond of quoting.
In the fifteenth century the Pope deeded the entire western hemisphere to Spain and Portugal and nobody paid the slightest attention to the fact that the real estate was already occupied by several million Indians with their own laws, customs, and notions of property rights. His grant deed was pretty effective, too. Take a look at a western hemisphere map sometime and notice where Spanish is spoken and where Portuguese is spoken – and see how much land the Indians have left.
You don’t own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take.
Thy will be done –’ No Muslim claiming to be a ‘slave of God’ ever gave a more sweeping consent than that. In that prayer you invite Him to do His worst. The perfect masochist.
I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people – and parasites.
One damn sure thing! – he wasn’t going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.
But as a matter of strict fact, did Agnes have any “maternal” in her? When she set her mouth that way, it was hard to see it. Oh shucks, all women had maternal instincts; science had proved that. Well, hadn’t they?
But a well-run tyranny is almost as scarce as an efficient democracy.
A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.
Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.
They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw’s opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined.
Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.