Worden Quotes

#1. (sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit)
For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

David Simon

#2. The feelings that still linger, decade after decade, aren't just the residue of a love lost. They are as real as the first day I told her I loved her." ~Corbin Jones, Voice of Innocence

Lindsay Detwiler

#3. Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

Richard Dawkins

#4. If you go to a foreign country and disregard their culture, you will be a complete embarrassment to your native home country. You represent your country, so don't ruin it for the rest of them.

Scott Worden

#5. Our first surface experiment was complete, and we'd literally changed the face of the moon.

Al Worden

#6. Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

Alfred Worden

#7. It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

Chester W. Nimitz

#8. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Dave Barry

#9. Every war has its demons.

Richard Engel

#10. So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

Craig Benson

#11. If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Tim Ferriss

#12. I am a pacifist, but be aware that I also carry a gun.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.

Al Worden

#14. Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first ... acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] ... the second ... that one must never, in one's life, accept ... injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

James Baldwin

#16. Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine.
Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their footing in the late 1800s, when building practices shifted toward more commercial technologies.

Shannon Taylor Scarlett