Tom Clancy Quotes - Page 4

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.