#pro

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bit #comforting #comic #cynical #emotion

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#community #degeneration #fact #field #general

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#attacks #believed #better #detain #disrupt

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#american people #bed #day #enough #go

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#became #cloning #could #dna #during

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#against #does #get #impatience #interest

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation. ↗

— Edie Falco

#desperation #i #open #probably #well

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #effect #judicious #produced #sailing

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate. ↗

— Jeremy Brett

#described #difficult #doyle #even #fact