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6f37dc3 I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we? Robert Ludlum
bc17cf4 Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. Robert Ludlum
c7d31f2 The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still. Robert Ludlum
2ceb452 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. pain hurt panic Robert Ludlum
9973947 What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him. Robert Ludlum
7e3b0d0 I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable! Robert Ludlum
3d9a659 The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. Robert Ludlum
28cbcef Credo quia absurdum - I believe because it is absurd. Robert Ludlum
3cae4a3 A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. Robert Ludlum
066621e You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way. Robert Ludlum
3139670 Learn always but never appear to be learning. favorite-quote jason-bourne Robert Ludlum
a6dd541 How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) Robert Ludlum
30ac17a Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. truth inspirational Robert Ludlum
adf0a12 It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which. Robert Ludlum
6a08026 There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try. Robert Ludlum
001e01c You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go. Robert Ludlum
396e3e7 He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically. Robert Ludlum
75ba0a6 The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still. self-delusion Robert Ludlum
703e0ac Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them. Robert Ludlum
411e6c6 Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary. Robert Ludlum
9f9b795 Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers) Robert Ludlum
3b94cf3 I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you don't break in--they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington. They use other men's intellects, other men's work, wrapping it all into decisions bearing their imprimaturs. And if you're on the outside, you become .. Robert Ludlum
c81277a If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette) Robert Ludlum
496c1cb The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed. Robert Ludlum
8cd80a3 And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy. earth world solar-system planet galaxy Robert Ludlum
af01afa Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much. Robert Ludlum
0534fd4 They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer. Robert Ludlum
0edabe7 The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit .. Robert Ludlum
3a7aba7 Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth. good joy truth sad Robert Ludlum
c379a00 The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks -- or something tells it -- that the remembering can be handled. reject trick remembering Robert Ludlum
6a68d35 Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be. Robert Ludlum
614a6e0 Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it. injured Robert Ludlum
18b593e She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field. wives counsel Robert Ludlum
2f57ae0 Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting. stranger unfamiliar Robert Ludlum
f35e8d3 When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. old-men kill dying Robert Ludlum
22ec845 he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right. Robert Ludlum
064d25d You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke." violence pain pensiveness identity Robert Ludlum
8b7163d 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
73ca50c Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain Robert Ludlum
17c78e8 I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]" movie-script-writing humor hollywood Robert Ludlum
3524d09 You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. Robert Ludlum
3f0b9e4 there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons! Robert Ludlum
f377386 We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it. Robert Ludlum
b61764d Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables -- with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card. felt-table dice reputation Robert Ludlum