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A corruption of intentions.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish.

Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes - with certain justification - that he was betrayed by his government.

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

Life is extremely complicated.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable!

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

He was a relieved man; he was an angry man.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.

Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

I fought ... I fought and I fought ... until I ... couldn't remember any more.

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

You're on tenth base, I can't find you.

there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

There was too little space for their own - and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Sleep is a weapon!