Pete > Pete's Quotes

“if people read more, fewer of them would get shot.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“Words are the true weapons of mass destruction”
― Steve Berry

“We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.”
― Vince Flynn

“It is not easy to become sane”
― George Orwell, 1984

“My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“In war nobody celebrates second place”
― Joe R. Garner, Code Name : Copperhead -- Inside the Legendary Green Berets -- The True Exploits of an American Hero

“Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left.”
― Charles A. Krohn, The Lost Battalion of TET: Breakout of the 2/12 Cavalry at Hue

“Though bikers make more noise about loyalty than any other group, in no other group is it more dangerous to actually believe it.”
― Peter Edwards

“I would be a billionaire if I was lookin' to be a selfish boss. That's not me...All I want is a good sandwich.”
― John H. Davis, Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family – An Inside Story of Power, Murder, and Control from Sicily to New York

“To the success of our hopeless cause”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“We do not pray for victory, nor even for our individual safety. But we pray for help that none of us may let a comrade down - that each of us may do his duty to himself, his comrades and his country, and so be worthy of our American heritage.”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

“You better be good, sonny, because I may be old, but I'm still who I always was. I'm the sniper.”
― Stephen Hunter, Sniper's Honor

“Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?”
― Stephen Leather, Dead Men

“You know, I may have another book in me, old man.”
― Oliver North, Mission Compromised

“Please don't tell my momma I died in pain, he muttered.... He died right then. He didn't even live long enough to hear my lies about how everything was going to be okay”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History