“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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“«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de todos los acontecimientos históricos. Lo que existe en el pléroma como 'acontecimiento' eterno, aparece en el tiempo como secuencia aperiódica, es decir, se repite varias veces de modo irregular.»”
― C.G. Jung, quote from Answer to Job
“So there it is: Boys and girls grow up in different worlds, but we think we're in the same one, so we judge each other's behavior by the standards of our own.”
― Deborah Tannen, quote from You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".”
― Euripides, quote from Medea and Other Plays
“So, hoss. Have you actually told her you’re in love with her?”
“She won’t let me. When I tried, she threw me down a flight of stairs.”
“And you’re not concerned about that?”
“There weren’t that many steps.”
― quote from The Mane Event
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.”
― Antal Szerb, quote from Journey by Moonlight
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