“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”
“A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”
“He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
“He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.”
“Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.”
“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
“It's funny how things work out sometimes.”
“They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.”
“To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.”
“Death is the same for the one who dies.”
“And what of the vicar? The word sat at the top of the page, underlined. That would suggest some sort of operation involving religion, but frankly, church was the last place you would expect to find anyone from Scorpia.”
“Me too, Arch,” Jeremiah said. “I want an answer about my request to transfer. Even now, my balls are shrinking in anticipation of going back out in the cold. I said I'd give my life protecting humanity, but my balls were never in the bargain.”
“The fantasies of ‘academic freedom’ . . . cannot protect a professor who counsels resistance to the law and speaks, writes, disseminates treason. That a teacher of youth should teach sedition and treason, that he should infect, or seek to infect, youthful minds with ideas fatal to their duty to the country, is intolerable.”
“Ông nên hiểu điều này, và ông nên nói lại điều này với những người trong bọn ông rằng các ông chỉ mạnh khi nào các ông không tước đoạt của người khác hết tất cả mọi thứ. Bởi vì khi một người đã bị các ông lấy mất hết tất cả, người đó sẽ không còn ngán sợ các ông nữa. Người đó lại trở thành tự do.”
“The flip side of this is that any information that can be reduced to a choice among two or more possibilities can be expressed using bits. Needless”
“Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.”
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