Quotes from Tom Clancy

it's about doing the job you've trained your ass off to be good at, taking care of the guys to your left and right, and coming out the other side with all your fingers and toes.

This wasn't a mere can of worms. It was a can of poisonous snakes that Ryan had spilled over Murray's desk.

and friendly fire would hurt just as bad as enemy fire.

He tied the surgical mask over his mouth and nose

Like I keep telling people, the more thinking you do before things get exciting, the less exciting things will be. And they get plenty exciting enough.

pilot might think a 1-percent chance of being shot down on a given mission acceptable, then realize that fifty such missions made it a 40-percent chance.

together unless they're waiting for a bus or they're bums." Jack joined them under the tree and they stood in a semicircle. "Okay, we're business schmucks," Clark said, "standing around talking

Brian had been killed the year before on a Campus black op in Libya. Dom had been there, he'd held his brother in his arms as he died, and then Dominic returned to The Campus, hell-bent on doing the hard, dangerous work that he believed in.

Open, sez me, you piece of shit.

mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

A wise man knows his limitations." And a bold one seizes opportunities.

Courage, though, he'd once been told, was being the only one who knew how terrified you were.

A REALLY BIG FOOKING WHOLE COMING RIGHT UP

A" would go out to everybody, while "B" would go only to those people who were supposed to survive, people who understood what it was all about, or who would accept their survival and get on with things with the rest of the crew.

Hvammsfjördur.

supported by Dr. Paul Bellow—Temple University, Philadelphia

Quentin leaned forward. A circle had just changed to a dot. A P-3C had just dropped an explosive sounding charge and localized an Echo-class attack sub five hundred miles south of the Grand Banks. For an hour they had a near-certain shooting solution on that Echo; her name was written on the Orion's Mark 46 ASW torpedoes.

The poetics of politics had to be observed.

They were not fighting for a principle, or a political decision, or a treaty made of paper. They were here for these people and others not the least different from those they'd left at home.

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.

The Navy wanted to see just how effective her new quieting systems were.

Under the circumstances, washing without soap wasn't even as good as kissing your sister.

Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The

He checked their work, and they checked his, for caution and thoroughness was the mark of such men.