The Sum of All Fears Quotes

“The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you’re wrong a lot more often than when you’re right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It’s intellectually honest, even.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“after you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears." - Winston Churchill”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“how could a man lead without vision?”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Only evil of my shadow is my enemy,well die of darkness of life!”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“The mark of intellectual honesty is the solicitation of opposing points of view.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn’t have the brain market cornered.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Prosperity was the handmaiden of peace, and the assassin of discontent.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“million dollars, to be paid in a”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Ryan was a tough, formidable son of a bitch who met things head-on when he had to. That’s his weakness, Wellington told himself. He prefers to meet things head-on. He lacks subtlety. It was a common failing of the honest, and a grievous weakness in a political environment.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“A nation achieves greatness by helping others to make peace, not by demonstrating prowess at war or commerce.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“i am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested.
'right, no one's ever lived long enough for you to get really mad. they're dead by the time you're mildly annoyed.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He’d have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Our support for Israel is based on their political legitimacy as a functioning liberal democracy, but that legitimacy just evaporated. A country whose police murder unarmed people has no legitimacy, Marcus. We can no more support an Israel that does things like this than we could have supported Somoza, Marcos, or any other tin-pot dictator—”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears: A high-stakes page-turner from the King of the political thriller

“government that had no secrets could not function.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“the ‘protective’ part seriously, ’kay?” John”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

“Miten ihmeessä minä löysin sinut?"
"Sinä voitit minut. Elämän suurissa arpajaisissa sinä sait minut. Ja minä sinut. Luuletko että aviokumppanukset ansaitsevat toisensa? Kun ajattelee kaikkia niitä joita näen töissä ja jotka eivät onnistu siinä. Ehkä he eivät vain yritä, ehkä he vain unohtavat."
"Unohtavat?"
Sen mitä minäkin olin unohtaa. "'Hyvinä ja pahoina päivinä aina kuolemaan asti.' Muistatko? Minäkin annoin sen lupauksen.”
― Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears