It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking their way through the bodies and the rubble. "Amy?" Oh, God. It was Amy. "Get away from her," Jenna ordered, stepping out from behind the conifer, wielding the iron pan like a club. Both men stopped. Glanced at her. Glanced at each other over Amy's head. "What?" The biggest one grunted out a surly laugh. "Or you'll souffle us?" Okay. She was definitely going after him first.
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.