The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
 is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. )
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life
Most things in here don't react well to bullets.
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.
The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends." --General Sergey Voloshin
Surviving is much more painful than death.
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.
She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.
My life is a very simple life thank you
The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.
All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
To Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Won the War.
In a toxic, festering sort o' way...
One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.
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?
The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.
Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: ‘Too late.
Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.
In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.
Russia will invade Ukraine, probably within the next few weeks. They will annex the Crimea. From there, if they meet no resistance from the West, they will take more of the country,
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Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)
We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water,
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.
Jack Ryan said, “Benjamin Franklin put it like this: ‘Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The only people Ryan needed to impress were those who knew him; he cared little for the rest.
A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.
A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.
Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.
I’ll indulge you and look at the pictures.
The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.
Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.
People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.
If the First Toddler wears it, it has to be fashionable.
Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.
Marine.” Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.
Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.
People who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.
Thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders
Only evil of my shadow is my enemy,well die of darkness of life!
They were wheels-up in less than fifteen minutes.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.
Either people were trustworthy or they were not.
At this table, a loud voice was just a man venting his stress. A quiet one was far more dangerous.
