“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
Tom Clancy
Born place: in Baltimore County, Maryland, The United States
Born date April 12, 1947
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“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties...I understood their enduring clarity....In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“I HAD learned early in my career that one can do wrong against one's will, and before long I also learned that one can do wrong without ever discovering what one has done or why it was wrong. There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was “destined” to do something or other. He felt this as pure and unsullied, but—more often and more deeply as he grew older—“impractical”.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“no longer tell if he was upset by being so far”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
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