Brute Force Quotes

“focus on the possible and let the impossible fade from your mind.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Two is one and one is none.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“it was better to fight through the objective and die in the assault than lie around and wait to be killed.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“The first rule of a gunfight was to bring a gun. The second was to bring a bunch of friends with guns,”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“In China there are said to be three genders—men, women, and women with graduate degrees.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“The years have not been kind to me,” he said. “We all have our scars, Mr. Quinn,” she said, draping the damp towel around his shoulders. “They are what make us who we are. You are like Odysseus.” “I’ve been called a lot of things”—Quinn laughed—“but never Odysseus.” “You know the story,” she said. “How he was recognized by the scar on his knee he had received from the wild boar as a child.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“I’m probably the first woman in my family to ever contemplate hiring a babysitter so she can go break a friend out of a secret boat-prison.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“if you’re going to make a mistake, you should err on the side of action.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Four things greater than all things are,’ ” the Sikh said, again using Kipling to make his point. “ ‘. . . Women and Horses and Power and War.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Tea and blood are both impossible to retrieve once they have been spilled,”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“It was not the lack of technology, weaponry, or troops that threatened his country’s military. It was corruption.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Our Special Operations units deal primarily with nontraditional security threats we call the ‘three forces’: terrorism, separatism, and extremism.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“power in battle came when strength was combined with speed.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“If you wanted the respect of the world, you climbed Everest. If you wanted the respect of other mountaineers, you climbed K2.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Not China,” Song said.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force