“If you're not busy living, you're dying.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Besides, give a teacher the choice between a straight-A student who has all the answers and an earnest one who gets better over time, and they’ll pick the earnest one every time.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Luke 12:28 was a big one: “For of those to whom much is given, much is required.” Since Ohlmeyer was a”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Revenge is more wild, less calculated . . . deeply personal.” “And retribution?” Rapp thought about it for a moment and then answered in a very clear voice. “Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Rapp took his pathetic self-absorbed emotion and shoved it as far down in his gut as it would go, and he plugged it with the first and only thing he had available—anger. That anger slowly metastasized into a suit of armor. For the first time since the news had hit him, he saw a way out. A faint light at the far end of the cavern. He wasn’t sure what it was, but he knew he had to head toward it. It was the only thing that offered him hope.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“For of those to whom much is given, much is required.” Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“There, he was a lion. Here, he could end up being someone's lunch.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“all getting sick of it.” “I’m going to kick your ass!” Victor howled as he hopped from one foot to the other like a boxer. Rapp didn’t say a word. He moved to the middle of the mat and motioned for Victor to join him. Victor started whooping and hollering as he danced circles around Rapp. He was throwing shadow punches and explaining in detail what he was going to do to Rapp, when suddenly one of the instructors reappeared in the doorway. “What in hell are you ladies doing?” Victor fell silent, but it was too late. “That’s it, you dumb-asses. If you’ve got enough energy to fight then you’ve got enough energy to run. You’ve got sixty seconds to muster”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think.
“I’d rather go down swinging,” he muttered as he shut the door. If he survived this little ordeal he’d have to ask Lewis if talking to yourself was a symptom of losing your mind.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“into submission. No more punches. Before”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“that was tied to his wrists. His toes hovered only”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“Ohlmeyer saw communism for the sham that it was—a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“If you’re not busy living, you’re dying.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“The chairs were black plastic with coarse charcoal fabric seats that could render a pair of dress pants useless in just nine months. Lewis was amazed at how ubiquitous this type of furniture had become in Washington, which in turn led him to the conclusion that the maker of this substandard furniture was more than likely headquartered in the home district of the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“whipped up a cloud of dirty”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
“or the trunk, taken somewhere and stripped naked,”
― Vince Flynn, quote from American Assassin
Vince Flynn
Born place: in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
Born date April 6, 1966
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“Mostly, they were ashamed of us. Our floppy straw hats and threadbare clothes. Our heavy accents. Every sing oh righ? Our cracked, callused palms. Our deeply lined faces black from years of picking peaches and staking grape plants in the sun. They longed for real fathers with briefcases who went to work in a suit and tie and only mowed the grass on Sundays. They wanted different and better mothers who did not look so worn out. Can't you put on a little lipstick? They dreaded rainy days in the country when we came to pick them up after school in our battered old farm trucks. They never invited over friends to our crowded homes in J-town. We live like beggars. They would not be seen with us at the temple on the Emperor's birthday. They would not celebrate the annual Freeing of the Insects with us at the end of summer in the park. They refused to join hands and dance with us in the streets on the Festival of the Autumnal Equinox. They laughed at us
whenever we insisted that they bow to us first thing in the morning and with each passing day they seemed to slip further and further from our grasp.”
― Julie Otsuka, quote from The Buddha in the Attic
“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
“Best of all, Galignani’s, the English bookstore and reading room, a favorite gathering place, stood across the street from the hotel. There one could pass long, comfortable hours with a great array of English and even American newspapers. Parisians were as avid readers of newspapers as any people on earth. Some thirty-four daily papers were published in Paris, and many of these, too, were to be found spread across several large tables. The favorite English-language paper was Galignani’s own Messenger, with morning and evening editions Monday through Friday. For the newly arrived Americans, after more than a month with no news of any kind, these and the American papers were pure gold. Of the several circulating libraries in Paris, only Galignani’s carried books in English, and indispensable was Galignani’s New Paris Guide in English. Few Americans went without this thick little leather-bound volume, fully 839 pages of invaluable insights and information, plus maps.”
― David McCullough, quote from The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
“God hates me," she heard him mutter. "Now there are two of them.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Tangle of Need
“After Abalyn said what she said, I panicked. Someone tells me I can't remember what I definitely do remember, and sometimes I panic. I'm not as used to it as I often pretend. As I pretend to be used to it, I mean to say. The false memories.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, quote from The Drowning Girl
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