Spencerville Quotes

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.  ”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“However, the pastor did make an oblique reference to her predicament by reminding everyone that women were the weaker vessel, more sinned against than sinners themselves. Keith wondered how that would play in Washington, D.C.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“Cynicism is humor in ill-health.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“Each administration that he’d served had started out with its own unique style, its own vision, energy, optimism, and idealism. But within a year, the entrenched bureaucracy reexerted its suffocating influence, and about a year after that, the new administration began getting pessimistic, isolated, and divided with internal conflicts and squabbles. The man in the Oval Office aged quickly, and the Ship of State chugged on, unsinkable and unsteerable, with no known destination.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“Each administration that he’d served had started out with its own unique style, its own vision, energy, optimism, and idealism. But within a year, the entrenched bureaucracy reexerted its suffocating influence, and about a year after that, the new administration began getting pessimistic, isolated, and divided with internal conflicts and squabbles.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“The summer of ’63, Keith reflected, had been called the last summer of American innocence,”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“truth needs two people to make it work—the speaker and the listener.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“You know what an idealist is? That’s a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There’s no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“The danger’s passed, the wrong is righted; the veteran’s ignored, the soldier’s slighted.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“they don’t want their thinking or attitudes changed. They want their values and beliefs endorsed, and they want government and society to reflect their values and beliefs, not yours.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“humoring me.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“The guy did okay for himself.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville

“A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later.”
― Nelson DeMille, Spencerville