David L. Robbins Quotes

You have no fear? I don’t let it make my decisions for me.

It’s not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That’s politics.

Whoever occupies a territory imposes on it his own social system.

It’s how we train. To drown? To never quit. Ever.

Desert kept a still tongue, and when

Of course.

Felt this way, robbed

And live images were of a short, hawk-faced, and slender man, beardless, with a beak nose and distrustful eyes. This

Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.

I don’t need to know. So neither do you. LB snorted. Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on.

This was Khalil’s doing, and Josh’s, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

Then, as they will, the riches overtook knowledge, and the people lost the ways to keep their wealth flowing.

Panning his sunglasses across Quincy, Jamie, and LB, he spun his finger in small circles. He spoke into the mike curled at his lips. Spinning up now. Quincy climbed to his feet. He offered a mitt down...

Then Arif was allowed to enter Care Rehabilitation, the Kingdom’s response to 9/11, after fifteen of the nineteen hijackers turned out to be Saudis.

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Changing the way a man thought could be done by teaching him. Altering the way he reacted without thought meant tampering with his instincts.

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

Muhammad tells us the services due from one Muslim to another are six. If you meet him, greet him. If he invites you, accept. If he asks your advice, give it. If he sneezes, tell him God bless you. If...

They were reminded over and over that the Qur’an held 124 verses about dealing kindly with non-Muslims, while only one advocated waging war against them.

This isn’t combat. It’s diplomacy. Diplomacy with guns is combat.