James Brady famous quotes

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
-- James Brady

#Home #Police #Defense

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.
-- James Brady

#Pain #Adversity #Hands

There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.
-- James Brady

#Marine #Men #Order

The words walked right out of my mouth.
-- James Brady

#Mouths

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
-- James Brady

#Beautiful #People #May

For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.
-- James Brady

#Believe #Errors #Echoes

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.