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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc4a5d3 | speed of the enormous vessel. There was no other way to do this. It had to be tonight. They might wait weeks for | Brad Thor | ||
| 2c3f290 | As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with. | Brad Thor | ||
| e983f9e | The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny. | Brad Thor | ||
| f88241b | Malthus believed that a Utopian society could never be achieved as long as the world's population was allowed to continue to grow unchecked. The only way to protect the earth and improve the existence of mankind was to have less of mankind--something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease. | Brad Thor | ||
| 2eef09a | For instance," said Alan, "we're now learning that the smallpox pandemics of the Middle Ages, not the plague, mind you, but smallpox, left generations of people with a rare genetic defect that protects them against infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. We estimate that approximately one percent of people descended from northern Europeans are virtually immune to HIV infection." | Brad Thor | ||
| 718d49a | People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. --George Orwell | Brad Thor | ||
| 0899616 | In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded. | Brad Thor | ||
| cd9e667 | Aerotechnik Super Vivat Icarus motorgliders had an enormous wingspan and looked like a typical side-by-side pilot/passenger configuration sailplane that had been crossed with a small Cessna single-prop aircraft. | Brad Thor | ||
| 4cdee53 | He had the three ingredients to happiness right in the palm of his hand and he knew it--something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. | Brad Thor | ||
| f19db53 | As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. | Brad Thor | ||
| dc32d64 | If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change. | Brad Thor | ||
| 1e5bd48 | Good luck with that, Harvath thought. In his experience, life was predominantly made up of three distinct groups: sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. And if there was one thing he had learned from a lifetime of hunting wolves and protecting sheep, it was that sheep had two speeds--graze and stampede. Now that word was out that the virus was loose, all bets were off. Very soon, chaos was going to ensue. "What else do you have?" he asked, bracing h.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 17b4b13 | Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people. | elite traitors vanity | Brad Thor | |
| eb5753a | PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly hijacked planes full of fuel into buildings. Plain and simple, they're cowards. They won't confront anyone on a one-to-one basis. They don't have the savvy or the courage to do in-your-face operations. | Brad Thor | ||
| b8d873a | None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late. | Brad Thor | ||
| eaf4c04 | Harvath had met and worked with over his years in both the SEALs and the Secret Service. Harvath stood up and started moving toward the front of the cabin. | Brad Thor | ||
| d1b529d | Bullshit. I don't know how, but somehow you followed us." "I will admit, Agent Harvath, that when you logged on to the web site I gave you for the surveillance photos of Marcel" | Brad Thor | ||
| 7d2692c | It's the world's peaceful Muslims, the majority of the followers of Islam, who have perverted the faith. They have strayed. If Mohammed came back today you can bet there'd be hell to pay. He'd be lopping off heads left and right. And he'd have a lot of help too because in case you haven't noticed, the largest killer of Muslims in the world isn't us filthy infidels, it's other Muslims. Fundamentalist Islam is booming, if you'll pardon the pu.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 7a11b08 | Bismillah al rahman al Rahim," he replied. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate. Harvath knew the phrase. Every chapter in the Quran, except for the ninth, began with it. "Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illallah," he continued. "Wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah." I bear witness that there is no god except Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." | Brad Thor | ||
| c9755cc | Conrad had gotten his ambassadorship by being a big bundler and raising a lot of money for the previous president. He reminded Harvath of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In addition to being a thorough Arabist who thought he knew the region better than anyone else--along with what America's foreign policy absolutely should be--his hair was too blond, his teeth were too white, and his skin was too tan for a man of his age and stature. H.. | Brad Thor | ||
| 62f7d35 | The truth was, when it came to Islam, it had been violent since its inception. Its clearly stated goal was worldwide conquest. It was a mandate handed down in all of its religious texts. And while Harvath believed there were peaceful and moderate Muslims, he knew from studying the religion that there was no such thing as peaceful and moderate Islam. | Brad Thor | ||
| e8016cb | People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous. | Brad Thor | ||
| 5e56615 | What's this bit in Chinese that keeps popping up?" he said. "Xue Long?" "It's the codename for the operation." "What does it mean?" "Xue Long is a mythical Chinese creature said to bring darkness, cold, and death." "What's the translation?" "In English, it would be called a snow dragon." | Brad Thor | ||
| 4d53efc | He carried no electronics. No laptop, no cell phone, no walkie-talkie. He carried no ID. Beside his large-caliber Glock, spare magazines, and a knife, there was nothing on his person that could connect him to anything, anyone, or anywhere. That was how professionals worked. | Brad Thor | ||
| 39630bf | The [Renaissance] interest in education was also influenced by a changing economy. For different reasons in different countries, agriculture was becoming less lucrative, and many farmers decided to move to the cities to take up new occupations. However, to succeed in a trade they needed to know how to read and perform bookkeeping tasks ... Those who remained on the farm found life much the same as in the Middle Ages. In fact, in some agricu.. | Patricia D. Netzley | ||
| 7f87c04 | Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could not imagine living anywhere else. "In many places, peasant villages were located within a noble's estate, which was called a manor. Manors could be as small as one hundred acres or as large as several thousand acres and typically encompassed a mixture of cultivated and uncultivated land. Fo.. | Patricia D. Netzley | ||
| 1aba616 | I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth | Chris Murray | |
| 162a8da | This was only one of many recent changes along the capitalist food chain. Wall Street had gone from being the celebrities of the money culture to being its lackeys. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 9bfc992 | The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability--true stability--is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 1e9d248 | The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with loopholes. Everything was scarce; everything was also gettable, if you knew how to get it. "We had this system for seventy years," said Constantine. "People learn to work around the system. The more you cultivate a class of people who know how to wo.. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 82da139 | Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth | Chris Murray | |
| 0756a48 | Michael Lewis, the author of The Blind Side, wrote about professional basketball player Shane Battier, who plays for the Houston Rockets, in an article titled "The No-Stats All-Star." He describes Battier as follows: "Shane Battier is widely regarded inside the NBA as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars. And yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win. [Because] Battier . . . seems.. | Whitney Johnson | ||
| ed13f29 | They end when the career ends, | Michael Lewis | ||
| d87a39f | To Redelmeier the very idea that there was a great deal of uncertainty in medicine went largely unacknowledged by its authorities. There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 932042f | I'd thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs employee who had been charged with any sort of crime was the employee who had taken something from Goldman Sachs. I'd thought it even stranger that government prosecutors had argued that the Russian shouldn't be freed on bail because the Goldman Sachs computer code, in the wrong hands, could be used to "manipul.. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8a77e39 | No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars (even just wars) inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have their way. | Michael Ward | ||
| 4a02f26 | Don't worry. You gave him the right answer." Actually, Michael was after something more important than the fate of his Briarcrest teammate. "I wanted to see what type of person he was," he said later. "If he's pulling scholarships that they'd promised kids, would you want to play for that kind of person? Be around that kind of person?" Coach O wasn't that kind of person, he decided; more interestingly, Coach" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 97187b4 | RBC invited Brad along with a bunch of other nonwhite people to a meeting to discuss the issue. Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to "talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC." When Brad's turn came he said, "To be honest, the only time I've ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn't make people feel like a minority." | Michael Lewis | ||
| f7030af | The quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John Riggins. He watches Riggins run two steps forward, turn, and flip the ball back to him. It's what most people know as a "flea-flicker," but the Redskins call it a "throw back special." Two Mississippi: Theismann searches for a receiver but instead sees Harry Carson coming" | Michael Lewis | ||
| 7122d94 | As C. S. Lewis pointed out, it is not that our desires are too strong (as Stoicism would have it), but that they are too weak. 3 The irony of our lives is that we demand the ephemeral, momentary glories of this fading age, too easily amused and seduced by the trivial, when ultimate joy is held out to us. | Michael S. Horton | ||
| 5c32ca3 | And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6ae941e | WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything. | Michael Lewis | ||
| acd9658 | For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 9a86739 | I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavi.. | complain illusions | Michael Lewis |