To try to be better is to be better.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.