“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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“To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment — Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.”
― Margaret George, quote from The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”
― Charles Duhigg, quote from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
“... tan seguro estoy de que mi alma existe como de que la perversidad es uno de los impulsos primordiales del corazón humano, una de las facultades primarias indivisibles, uno de esos sentimientos que dirigen el carácter del hombre.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Black Cat
“I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface?”
― Caroline Kepnes, quote from You
“The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'
'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
― David Clement-Davies, quote from Fell
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