Gone Tomorrow Quotes

“I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“You see four guys bunched on a corner waiting for you, you either run like hell in the opposite direction without hesitation, or you keep on walking without slowing down or speeding up or breaking stride...Truth is, it's smarter to run. The best fight is the one you don't have. But I have never claimed to be smart. Just obstinate, and occasionally bad-tempered. Some guys kick cats. I keep walking. - Jack Reacher”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it’s relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Two choices, as always: fight or flight. We were on 56th Street’s southern sidewalk. I could have run straight across the road and tried to get away. But Leonid and his pal were probably faster than me. The law of averages. Most humans are faster than me. The old lady in the summer dress was probably faster than me. Her old gray mutt was probably faster than me.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Whatever the army had failed to teach me about staying out of sight, they had made up for by teaching me a lot about fighting. They had taken one look at me and sent me straight to the gym. I was like a lot of military children. We had weird backgrounds. We had lived all over the world. Part of our culture was to learn from the locals. Not history or language or political concerns. We learned fighting from them. Their favored techniques. Martial arts from the Far East, full-on brawling from the seamier parts of Europe, blades and rocks and bottles from the seamier parts of the States. By the age of twelve we had it all boiled down to a kind of composite uninhibited ferocity. Especially uninhibited. We had learned that inhibitions will hurt you faster than anything else. Just do it was our motto, well before Nike started making shoes. Those of us who signed up for military careers of our own were recognized and mentored and offered further tuition, where we were taken apart and put back together again. We thought we were tough when we were twelve. At eighteen, we thought we were unbeatable. We weren’t. But we were very close to it, by the age of twenty-five.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“This isn’t the Wild West.” “You got that right. This is the timid West. We need to roll the clock back.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you’re a mile away and he’s got to run after you in his socks." - Jack Reacher”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“a quarter,”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“si vis pacem para bellum.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“They looked like they could run half-marathons without much trouble”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Point nine: mumbled prayers.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“The other five passengers were all south of me on the long bench seats”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“I’m sure you’re a hell of a guy, Sansom. I’m sure you’d be a great senator. But at the end of the day any senator is just one out of a hundred. They’re all fairly interchangeable. Can you give me a name? Of one individual senator who truly made a difference to anything?”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“The Soviets were said to have asked for condoms, and in an attempt to impress and intimidate, they had specified that they should be eighteen inches long. The United States had duly shipped them, in cartons stamped Size: Medium.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“guessing,”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“lithe”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“O. Henry”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“how”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Night School”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“You can be gone tomorrow.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“People see, but they don’t look.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane’s head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“They were Ukrainians,” I said. “Is there a difference?” “I’m sure the Ukrainians think so. The Russians put their minorities out front, and their minorities didn’t like it.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“There’s a lot of tension right now between Russia and the Ukraine.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“A veces nuestros amigos se convierten en nuestros enemigos, y a veces nuestros enemigos se convierten en nuestros amigos.”
― Lee Child, Mañana no estás

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you’re a mile away and he’s got to run after you in his socks.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“cutest thing you ever saw. The alleged mother fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch. I”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“empty place opposite with eyes too”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow