Quotes from Robert Ludlum

emotional stress that produced stagnate hysteria and mental aphasia, conditions which also resulted in partial or total loss of memory. Amnesia.

It's a geometric puzzle; it can happen in any combination of ways. Physically or psychologically—or a little of both. It can be permanent or temporary, all or part. No rules!

The physical and the psychological. They were related, interwoven—two strands of experience, or stimulae, that became knotted.

The information in the folder did not constitute proof, only data that could or could not bolster the conjectures he had made.

laws of economics. It creates aggressive competition within its own ranks, but does its best to remove all outside competitors. That's what multi-nationals are all about

odd-looking, rotund prelate was a marvelous raconteur

without preamble.

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.

followed – even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar

Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name?

I look at an objective,' answered Vasili, 'and I do my best to analyse the problems inherent in reaching it.

As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend.

And I'd prefer you function the very best you can at that appointment. My interests are extremely selfish, no remissions permitted.

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

Stop it! Do not think of things that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.

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.

It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved.

He was a relieved man; he was an angry man.

For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.

Events shaped men, perhaps, but they did not remove alternatives of choice.

Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

The philosophy of a conglomerate is to buy as far and as wide as possible and diversify its markets. It both uses and refutes the Malthusian

the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;

If there was such a life and he could accept it without the terrible labyrinth from which he could find no escape. But it was more than that. In a manmade labyrinth one kept moving, running, careening off walls, the contact itself a form of progress, if only blind. His personal labyrinth had no walls, no defined corridors through which to race.