Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.
I never allowed my fear to limit me.
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.
You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.
I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug. . I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me. . yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em. . if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U. S. and American personnel and citizens. There's supposed to be no way to capture them. The "kill list" is calculated in the "terror Tuesdays" at the White House every week, where the President and his advisors - including CIA - "nominate" people to be on the kill list.