“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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“we must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs it by his wisdom, preserves it by his goodness, in particular, rules the human race with justice and Judgment, bears with them in mercy, shields them by his protection; but also that not a particle of light, or wisdom, or justice, or power, or rectitude, or genuine truth, will anywhere be found, which does not flow from him, and of which he is not the cause; in this way we must learn to expect and ask all things from him, and thankfully ascribe to him whatever we receive.”
― John Calvin, quote from Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Jellicoe Road
“It’s a mother’s greatest joy and greatest burden, having children to worry about. You can’t have one without the other.”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
“You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don’t know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.”
― Bryn Greenwood, quote from All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.”
― Zaman Ali, quote from Humanity
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