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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d7219dc | Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 01882be | What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move?" "You hope the other guy makes a bad move." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| e5ecd02 | Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 2a4682b | You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 846b2bd | The danger's passed, the wrong is righted; the veteran's ignored, the soldier's slighted. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 548438c | When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 52030b7 | humoring me. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| ce7e02d | When you cheat at poker, life, or taxes, you've taken the honor and fun out of winning, and ultimately you've cheated yourself out of the finest pleasure in life: beating the other guy fair and square. That's what I was taught in school. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 49fc59a | I regarded Novac a moment. He had on an awful gray poplin cotton suit, the sort of thing that prisons issue when they set you free. He wore shoes that actually had gum soles, and the uppers were made of a miracle synthetic that could be safely cleaned with Brillo. His shirt, his tie, socks, watch, even his haircut, were all bargain basement, and I found myself irrationally offended by the man because of the air of sensible frugality about h.. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 912920c | Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 90571d4 | they don't want their thinking or attitudes changed. They want their values and beliefs endorsed, and they want government and society to reflect their values and beliefs, not yours. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| cc244fd | In America if you're poor, you're worse than a criminal. You're nobody. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 5f4c222 | I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it's time to leave. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7961e88 | I read about a John Shelby of Thackham, England, who in 1672 was thrown from his horse into a thicket where he found an iron pot containing more than five hundred gold coins. According to the treasure trove laws of England, all hidden or lost property belonged to the Crown. However, Shelby refused to give the gold to the king's officers, and he was arrested, tried for treason, and beheaded. This was probably a favorite story of the IRS. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7765882 | We're all | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c8f7436 | A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c0f6fe6 | I thought again of how Tobin had already killed five good people and was about to be the cause of two more dying. I couldn't believe that this little turd had actually caused all this death and misery. The only explanation I had for it was that short people with beady eyes and big appetites were ruthless and dangerous. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 6d0d702 | Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives. | war | Nelson DeMille | |
| f36e157 | Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There's no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| c383207 | The guy did okay for himself. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 65aa767 | Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis. | humor murder | Nelson DeMille | |
| baedbf9 | the beautiful roses, | Catherine Coulter | ||
| ea8898a | The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of the soul and psyche; it was an ancient communion with every man who ever faced battle and death, and who stood with his comrades, but stood alone, with his own thoughts and his own fears, waiting for the signal to meet the enemy, and to meet himself. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 08ab0a3 | never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 562222f | But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 345e127 | When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 6a9f8e6 | concurring.' But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 5cd8aeb | I know who didn't kill her." "Don't" | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 9150135 | and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 9547a96 | When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7de98aa | Buck next brought up the subject of the | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7a38b51 | of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 1fae46e | asked me, | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 9351afd | Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7f9132d | USIS | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 2e114c7 | there are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is cynicism, there are dreams that can come true, and dreams that can't. And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world.. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 592e0ac | This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 8d560a7 | A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex ac.. | humor inspirational life love lust old romance science sex wisdom | Nelson DeMille | |
| 268782f | Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 28e9d4c | You don't bother to hate what you think is contemptible. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 0bfe1f9 | Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 5c0e088 | We are finding it- first in our heads, then in our hearts." He reminded Purcell. "This is a spiritual journey before it becomes a physical journey." -- | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 76a723a | arms, and the other pulled the camera from | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 8076409 | Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend," | Nelson DeMille |