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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d53c3b9 | For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 0b87c7d | One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a089095 | du Lac? | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 6a44d55 | REST IS THE BEST WEAPON..BATTLES WON AND LOST" ((page 209 )) JACKAL CHALLENGING BOURNE : " Paris, Jason Bourne! Paris if you dare! Or shall it be a minor university in Maine. Dr,Webb? ((page 276))... | Robert Ludlum | ||
| d84742e | utilitarian office | Douglas Corleone | ||
| 5955b80 | he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no means won every roll of the dice. if the enemy killed him, someone else would take his place. the enemy would have to start all over again. he was a known commodity... accept an existing devil. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 8003ad7 | Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name? | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c0dc1ff | As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were ... things ... about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| ad82101 | he was a child of eight, in the aftermath of his first kill. The first taste of blood was always the sharpest, but, for him, the blood didn't matter as much as it did | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| c4454df | Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| da4f0c5 | will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all | Robert Ludlum | ||
| f0f202b | A corruption of intentions. | intention | Robert Ludlum | |
| f075821 | Whenever you're in a stress situation yourself--and there's time, of course--do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you're observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2f923e4 | I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more. | remember | Robert Ludlum | |
| 72dbb34 | He was a relieved man; he was an angry man. | relieve | Robert Ludlum | |
| 79f21c5 | If a stress situation results in injury, be aware of the fact that the damage may be as much psychological as physical. You may have a very real revulsion to pain and bodily harm. Don't take risks, but if there's time, give yourself a chance to adjust. Don't panic.... | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2cb402e | It's an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn't change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn't a day that we don't worry about those men who have survi.. | politics presidents | Robert Ludlum | |
| 0c3719e | Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?" | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| d4feed0 | odd-looking, rotund prelate was a marvelous raconteur, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 67f2711 | Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne's heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He'd never make it out with all of them in tow. | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| 3df57a8 | without preamble. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 47c1abe | Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| d9b73ec | followed - even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 68476c6 | abrupt | Robert Ludlum | ||
| ae298ba | Operations, room five, in twenty minutes. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 6f30ea6 | Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c4b7f9b | Better the devil you can live with than one you don't know. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 845d6b9 | ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, "We learned Russian so you didn't have to," something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in t.. | Tim Tigner | ||
| f88a1d8 | There's a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 4dd1b34 | The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old it is easier still. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2be11ab | NEW FRIENDS | Margaret Sidney | ||
| d9843dc | The matter is," said Jasper, putting his face out, "that as I could not possibly make you hear my calls, I chose to break the window. Have the goodness to let my father and me at once out of this vehicle." | Margaret Sidney | ||
| cde9e04 | I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, springing from his chair, "that all you had to do to start a thing was to--begin." | Margaret Sidney | ||
| f83e92c | no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return. | Margaret Sidney | ||
| 11e334a | Who was Tanta? Why Tanta was just Tanta. All of the other aunts could be called Tanta Rivka. Tanta Frieda or Tanta Fannie, but not this Tanta. She had a name - it was Minnie - but the children never thought of using it. She was Tanta - The Tanta... | Sydney Taylor | ||
| 141ef49 | friends." "Ye--" | Sydney Taylor | ||
| cbb22fc | Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 994ef9b | But every redhead's temper has its limitations. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 7a97d67 | purple pansies | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 351a571 | Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| b6e1da4 | Riding around on Minnie's shoulder But | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 80c8868 | There is only here, she told herself, there is only this house. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| e76d7a6 | It's a strange thing, but somehow we expect more of girls than of boys. It is the sisters and wives and mothers, you know, Caddie, who keep the world sweet and beautiful. What a rough world it would be if there were only men and boys in it, doing things in their rough way! A woman's task is to teach them gentleness and courtesy and love and kindness. It's a big task, too, Caddie--harder than cutting trees or building mills or damming rivers.. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 4f31b01 | eyes wide | Carol Ryrie Brink |