Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.
when you think you've got hold of a genius. . . you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
The War will leave none of us as it found us.
if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.
It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.