Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.