“Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“He’d just crossed a great river. His entire country had no permanent rivers, just wadis that flooded briefly with a rare passing shower and soon went dry again. America was such a rich country. That was probably the source of their arrogance, but his mission, and that of his three colleagues, was to take that arrogance down a few pegs. And that, Insh’Allah, they would do, in less than two more days.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“Okay, here’s the first speech. You guys know what ‘black’ means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged by the government. People pretend it doesn’t exist. The Campus takes that one step further: We really do not exist. There is not a single written document in the possession of any government employee that has a single word about us. From this moment on, you two young gentlemen do not exist.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“How strange that the only lands where he could feel something close to safe were the Christian countries of Europe, which Muslims had struggled and failed to conquer on more than one occasion. Those nations had a nearly suicidal openness to strangers,”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“You know, we’re a victim of our own success,” the former senator said quietly. “We’ve managed to handle every nation-state that ever crossed us, but these invisible bastards who work for their vision of God are harder to identify and track.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“These people were so self-destructively open, so afraid to offend those who would just as soon see them and their children dead and their entire cultures destroyed. It was a pleasing vision, Mohammed thought, but he didn’t live within dreams. Instead, he worked for them. This struggle would last longer than his lifetime.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
“Dominic took the bait: “If the President breaks the law, then the House of Representatives impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, and he’s out on the street,”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Teeth of the Tiger
Tom Clancy
Born place: in Baltimore County, Maryland, The United States
Born date April 12, 1947
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“If there are things you don’t know, you call the gap in your knowledge a mystery and fill it in with a wholly emotional answer.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Day of the Scorpion
“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Comedy of Errors
“How can you get your finger on it, feel that life beating? It was more a torment than a comfort to think about this, because I couldn’t get hold of it at all. I”
― Alice Munro, quote from Selected Stories
“She'd barely stepped in, taken that first breath of cool, clean air, when Summerset, Roarke's majordomo, appeared in the foyer like an unwelcome vision.
"Yes, I missed the dinner," she said before he could open his mouth. "Yes, I'm a miserable failure as a wife and a poor example of a human being. I have no class, no courtesy, and no sense of decorum. I should be dragged naked into the streets and stoned for my sins."
Summerset raised one steel gray eyebrow. "Well, that seems to cover it."
"Good, saves time." She started up the stairs. "Is he back?"
"Just."
A little annoyed she'd given him no opportunity to criticize, he frowned after her. He'd have to be quicker next time.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Purity in Death
“I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don’t let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Upon the Midnight Clear
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