I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.