It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
Surviving is much more painful than death.
My life is a very simple life thank you.
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.
Every person you meet – and everything you do in life – is an opportunity to learn something.
I just finished reading the Koran, and there’s nothing in there I didn’t hear in Sunday school.
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.
Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can’t know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.
A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning – and, once decided, best unseen.
A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.
Tradition is important,” Evans said. “For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It’s more than just yourself, more than just your mates – but it’s not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true – or should be true – of any professional community.
A wise man knows his limitations.’ And a bold one seizes opportunities.
One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.