“A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“Tradition is important,” Evans said. “For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It’s more than just yourself, more than just your mates—but it’s not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true—or should be true—of any professional community.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle,” Jackson said, sitting down. “You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I’m finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine.” He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. “I’m ready!” “When”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“we are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can’t they, now?”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“If you’re really good, they’d taught him at Quantico, you don’t have to be arrogant.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the basis of courage and skill, on the basis of manhood itself, and it was this concept that marked the professional soldier as a romantic, a person who truly believed in the rules.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
“After three weeks in this environment, Sally was probably doing the cutest curtsies in the history of Western Civilization. By this time the Palace staff was probably fighting for the right to look after her. Sally was a true daddy’s girl. The ability to manipulate the people around her came easily. She’d practiced on her father for years.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Patriot Games
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Born place: in Baltimore County, Maryland, The United States
Born date April 12, 1947
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“He smiles into the sun. He loves his wife more than life itself, why he even says, “I love you more than life itself,” and does not understand this is the most frightening thing anyone can say.”
― Vanessa Place, quote from La Medusa
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“One morning just after Joe had left to drive to his class, Mary walked out to the barn and reflected on her state of hussiness. All in all, she was satisfied with it. Being a hussy had its advantages.”
― Linda Howard, quote from Mackenzie's Mountain
“If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from High Tide in Tucson
“She took a small device out of her bag, slipped it into her pocket.
"Micro recorder?" Roarke clucked his tongue. "I believe that's illegal. Not to mention rude."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"And unnecessary," he added. He turned his wrist, tapped a tiny button on the side of his watch. "This one is much more efficient. I should know. I manufacture both brands." He smiled as the car stopped at the edge of a small clearing”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Ceremony in Death
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