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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.