Tom Clancy > Quotes

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“Beware the fury of a patient man”
― Tom Clancy

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
― Tom Clancy

“The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”
― Tom Clancy

“Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.”
― Tom Clancy, The Teeth Of The Tiger

“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
― Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger

“I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”
― Tom Clancy

“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. ”
― Tom Clancy

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”
― Tom Clancy

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”
― Tom Clancy

“To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”
― Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger

“Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.”
― Tom Clancy

“She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl”
― Tom Clancy

“Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of
him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation.
Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew
different parts of the whole story,
but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate
fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder
about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.”
― Tom Clancy, Without Remorse

“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.”
― Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”
― Tom Clancy

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”
― Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger

“If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth”
― Tom Clancy, The Teeth Of The Tiger

“In a toxic, festering sort o' way... ”
― Tom Clancy

“And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.”
― Tom Clancy

“To Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Won the War.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“Tango Down”
― Tom Clancy

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― Tom Clancy

“Most things in here don't react well to bullets.”
― Tom Clancy

“My life is a very simple life thank you”
― Tom Clancy, Best Of Thrillers

“Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know)”
― Tom Clancy