“So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear natural.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.
[KGB]”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud, Foley thought.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy
Born place: in Baltimore County, Maryland, The United States
Born date April 12, 1947
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“When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Grip of the Shadow Plague
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Zahir
“I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from Three Comrades
“I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like a cross between Fernand Liger and Dr. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of day-glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester schoolbus and told him to go to it.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“In time, the Navy would compile statistics showing that for a career Navy pilot, i.e., one who intended to keep flying for twenty years... there was a 23 percent probability that he would die in an aircraft accident. This did not even include combat deaths, since the military did not classify death in combat as accidental.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Right Stuff
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