“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“At this table, a loud voice was just a man venting his stress. A quiet one was far more dangerous.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“Either people were trustworthy or they were not.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience—but experience often came from bad decisions.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“Bad money drives out good.’ That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn’t recognized.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“the only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“Robert, that’s a little too far off the wall, I think,” Greer analyzed.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“All men had their limitations. It was just that some were more dangerous than others. And while genius knew it had limits, idiocy was always unbounded.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“But it could have been worse. He did have a pass to shop for food at the Army–Air Force Exchange Service—otherwise known as the PX at nearby Greenham Commons Air Base—so at least they’d have proper hot dogs, and brands that resembled the ones he bought at the Giant at home in Maryland.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“And this letter threatened change, didn’t it? It was a threat, and he might have to do something about the threat. That meant doing something about the man behind it. It had happened before. It could happen again, he decided. Andropov would not live long enough to learn that in considering this action, he would set in motion the demise of his own country.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“office just wasn’t a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
“No man controlled his fate, a knowledge that came late in life. You just tried to muddle along from one point to another, making as few mistakes as possible.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy
Born place: in Baltimore County, Maryland, The United States
Born date April 12, 1947
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“He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.”
― Lee Child, quote from The Hard Way
“His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.”
― C.S. Forester, quote from Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
“To have to perform a scene, a punishment scene like that, was extremely unpleasant. It bothered me to hurt you, Jessica,” he growled. “You will let me hold you, and offer me some comfort in return.”
― Cherise Sinclair, quote from Club Shadowlands
“How strange that he had kept this small amateur watercolor. She did not recall giving it to him. Did he not know it was by her hand? Perhaps he had stuck it into the volume to mark some place long ago and had completely forgotten about it, and when he found it later did not remember the artist was the very woman who had spurned him, the woman he despised. Surely he would not have kept it had he remembered.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Maid of Fairbourne Hall
“After a long moment, the Countess sat back down. "So," she said. "You … do love her. I must say, you look peculiarly resigned to it."
He shrugged. "It is not fresh news for me."
"And for Emma?"
"Neither welcomed nor openly acknowledged."
"But acknowledged all the same, you believe."
"Perhaps," he said. "I cannot know. Not anymore."
-Delphinia, Lady Chad and Julian”
― Meredith Duran, quote from The Duke of Shadows
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