The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
If the CIA isn’t a force for truth, what is it good for? (Truth, I mean, not the CIA.)
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with...
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Charles Weiss: No guts. No glory.
Elrond: There's no strength left in the world of Men.
Burt Ramsey: We met upon the level, and we're parting on the square.
[last lines] Rachel Cooper: They abide, and they endure.
Patton: We're going to have to fight the Russians eventually anyway. It might as well be now while we've already got the army here to do it.
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Use the Force, Luke.
Darth Vader: The Force is strong with this one.
Dr. Moira MacTaggert: I'm going to use an asset the CIA didn't issue me... [starts to strip]
Magneto: Charles, this might actually work.
