#ice

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content. ↗

— David Baldacci

#content #forgetting #i #people #price

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#cannot #consistently #deliberately #denial #everything

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #believe #citizen #fiction #injustice

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #cool #down #i #joined

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #case #certain #enemy #ferocious

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#justice #law #reason #nature

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#calling #intimate #intimate knowledge #knowledge #pays

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ↗

— Sam Abell

#held #i #i see #moment #photography

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. ↗

— John Abizaid

#empower #everything #forces #include #iraqi

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen