Time of Attack Quotes

“President Clark rubbed his eyes with a thumb and forefinger. "This is really something," he said. " Just days until I address Congress and the nation. What am I supposed to say? 'Ladies and gentlemen, the state of the union is...infected.',”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“It was certain to rain guards as soon as the fence was breached. Some would call that overwhelming odds. He thought of it as a target-rich environment.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“First attack was a tricky thing. It was all too easy to give up too much strategy by showing your hand early in the game.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“Duty is heavy as a mountain—death, light as a feather.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“Do you know what a woman wants, Quinn-san?” “I’m not the man to ask.” He wished Thibodaux was there. The big Cajun had barrels of philosophy about women. “I think most men believe we want to be ravished—swept off our feet.” She sat on the end of the bed, one sock on, the other in her hand. “And perhaps some of us do when we are young. But what we really want is to feel safe.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“spent a lot of time on her back, pondering the mystery and vagaries of life. Positional prostitutional philosophy,”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. —PROVERBS 28:1”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“old proverb: When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“Just because you hold a sword, does not mean it is the only weapon you can use to win the battle.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“the main problem with riding at such speeds with no helmet or goggles was the inability to see.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“We hope we have it contained. So far, it looks as though Afton, Wyoming, and Cedar City and Kanab in Utah are the only hot spots.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“short letters take a long time to write,”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“She told him of a poem that described the three most prominent shoguns in feudal Japan and their methods of dealing with a bird that refused to sing. If it doesn’t sing, kill it, the first said. If it doesn’t sing, make it sing, was the second’s philosophy. The third, and most successful shogun, Lord Tokugawa had said: If it doesn’t sing, wait for it. It will.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“We say in Japan that those who travel for love find a thousand miles not longer than one. Though”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“knotted when”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack