Quotes from Steve Berry

Bethany. "That's biblical. In the Holy Land. It means 'house with an answer.

She was seventy-four years old, way past what anyone would consider the prime of life. Not old. Not finished. But definitely tired.

so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place.

That's the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable." The

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe.

If history has taught us nothing else, we have learned that we must defend ourselves against extremism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ from the beginning.

Time has an annoying way of removing tarnish

He who runs after two hares at the same time, catches neither.

The soviets were terrified of God. … The less a government deifies itself, the more it should be respected.

He who does not move forward, recedes.

It's my nature. I can't help it.

the eternal salvation of those who took their own lives was not lost completely. The Church taught that, by ways known only to God, an opportunity for repentance would be provided.

if the faithful stop believing in dogma, stop relying on the church for absolute guidance, then it is all over.

Old friendships could atrophy. People changed. What was once appreciated between two people became uncomfortable.

Respect is earned.

His stomach bubbled with anxiety. He'd waited a long time for this. Camp by the riverside. Advice he'd received years ago—and as true as ever. If you waited by the river long enough, eventually your enemies would float by.

What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have to ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen. - William Churchill

Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong.

Hard to get lost on this island, the whole place smaller than back home in Blount County, Tennessee.

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people should live under the same rules it passes for the people. ... How can the American people trust Congress to fix a broken Washington when the people in Congress don't even live under the same rules as everybody else.

Sometimes I think the force is stronger in the dead than in the living.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.

I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.