Quotes from David L. Robbins

Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.

It's how we train." "To drown?" "To never quit. Ever.

Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.

If a man sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue. If he cannot, then with his heart, but this is the weakest faith.

Changing the way a man thought could be done by teaching him. Altering the way he reacted without thought meant tampering with his instincts.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

I don't need to know. So neither do you." LB snorted. "Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on.

Whoever occupies a territory imposes on it his own social system.

You have no fear?" "I don't let it make my decisions for me.

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

They were reminded over and over that the Qur'an held 124 verses about dealing kindly with non-Muslims, while only one advocated waging war against them.

It's not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That's politics.

In weeks or months, the rest of eastern Europe will become Soviet puppets as well. Tens of millions of people are to be subjugated to the communist will, against their own.

Then Arif was allowed to enter Care Rehabilitation, the Kingdom's response to 9/11, after fifteen of the nineteen hijackers turned out to be Saudis.

LB didn't have to inquire where Josh was. Among the curtains, white linens, IV lines, monitors, gray faces, and baby blue scrubs, Josh's private room would be the one between two Saudi army guards wearing berets and automatic weapons.

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

God is about fear, a way to make you afraid and obey. The man of the forest is without fear.

Then, as they will, the riches overtook knowledge, and the people lost the ways to keep their wealth flowing.

This isn't combat. It's diplomacy." "Diplomacy with guns is combat.

and live images were of a short, hawk-faced, and slender man, beardless, with a beak nose and distrustful eyes. This

desert kept a still tongue, and when

felt this way, robbed