Aldrich Ames Quotes

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

The law of unintended consequences, far more than the Constitution, is what governs the modern presidency.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause