“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date May 25, 1927
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“few countries have undergone more remarkable changes, since the year 1535, when the first colonist of La Plata landed with seventy-two horses. The countless herds of horses, cattle, and sheep, not only have altered the whole aspect of the vegetation, but they have almost banished the guanaco, deer, and ostrich. Numberless other changes must likewise have taken place; the wild pig in some parts probably replaces the peccari; packs of wild dogs may be heard howling on the wooded banks of the less-frequented streams; and the common cat, altered into a large and fierce animal, inhabits rocky hills.”
― Charles Darwin, quote from Voyage of the Beagle
“Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to”
― Donna Leon, quote from Blood from a Stone
“Don't look into car headlights and freeze, because you'll either get run over or shot!”
― Bill Watterson, quote from Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.
Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.”
― Joseph O'Neill, quote from Netherland
“How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
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