Quotes from Brad Thor

of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.

Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Alfredo Catalani's La Wally

Instead of letting idiots on TV, radio, and the internet convince us that our good lives were terrible, we needed to be practicing gratitude.

yours, Rob," she replied. "Damn it, Gretchen," he said. "This is how it works. I can't always give you all the information." "Well you could have given us more." The statement hung in the air between them for several moments. Finally, Hutton relented, "I don't have all of the pieces

less of mankind—something he believed Mother Nature would eventually deliver in the form of widespread famine and disease.

In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

in history had been won not by those with the greatest number of troops, but rather those with the largest commitment to winning the fight.

In government, you can always improve your lie.

the shortest distance between two people was a good laugh.

Our paper is very fibrous, and it doesn't take much for things to get embedded in those fibers. The best example would be cocaine. According to statistics, trace amounts of cocaine are believed to infect four out of every five bills in circulation. – Scot Harvath

hunt you down and kill you myself. Chapter 18 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The call from Philippe Roussard's handler came in the middle of the night. "Do you have everything in place?" Roussard sat up in bed

There were some things in life that could never be forgiven or forgotten. - Scott Harvath

Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun.

As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

When it came to the location of clandestine meetings, all operatives held to the acronym PACE. It stood for: primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.

He had long ago learned to take his peaceful moments where he could find them. Who knew what tomorrow would bring?

The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation's problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good, actually making their lives better.

Whoever said money couldn't buy happiness hadn't had billions of it to throw around.

The message to Beijing and Moscow would be unmistakable. You fuck with the United States at your peril. CHAPTER

But just like everything else in life, Harvath had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

something. We all have our crosses to bear. What's more, we wouldn't trade ours for someone else's. If you and ten other people walked into a room and all laid their crosses on the table, everyone would be walking out with the same cross they walked in with.

I know what a bar is, you nonce.

I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.