Nowhere To Run Quotes

“he thought how much easier it was to be cruel and ruthless when you didn’t consider your adversary an equal.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“Club”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“The brothers were on us like ugly on an ape”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“They spend money like a pimp with a week to live.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“with the very long-term political class.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“conspiracies don’t exist in government for long. But a couple of things are timeless, especially in Washington: greed and corruption. Especially”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“We used to have a pretty good country. At least I think we did. Then something happened. It’s our fault ’cause we let it. We used to be a people who had a government,” he said, looking up, his eyes fierce again. “Now it’s the other way around.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“Avoiding hard work required discipline and a complete awareness of his surroundings, as well as an intuitive sense of when to be in the wrong place when extra time or effort was demanded. Like golf or fly-fishing, it was a lifelong pursuit that he knew he might never perfect but he could certainly continue to improve.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“I got to experience socialism firsthand. At first, it’s seductive. Free health care, free college, all that. But nothing is free. And anything that’s free has no value. Zero means zero.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“Cuts from Ennio Morricone like “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” “Theme from A Fistful of Dollars,” “L’estasi dell’oro (The Ecstasy of Gold),” “La resa dei conti (For a Few Dollars More)”; Elmer Bernstein’s “The Magnificent Seven Theme,” “The Journey,” and “Calvera’s Return”; and Jerome Moross’s “Theme from The Big Country.” Big, wonderful, rousing, swelling, sweeping, triumphalist music from another era. It was music that simply wasn’t made anymore. The pieces were about tough (but fair) men under big skies on horseback, their women waiting for them at home, and bad guys—usually Mexicans—to be vanquished.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run