No one has leave to sin.
There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.
More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!
The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.
I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.
Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.
Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.