"Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't."

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Source : William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

William C. Dietz

#Betrayal Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.”
“Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy.”
“Even bad men love their mamas.”
“It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do thisâ€”through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medicationâ€”we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”
“The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.”
“As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.”

Source : "Listen to the Admiral". Interview with Ann Louise Bardach, www.slate.com. December 16, 2004.
“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

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