Leave that little problem to Lieutenant Ellis.
Himmler rarely made little jokes, and when he smiled he reminded Canaris of a funeral director who had just sold an impoverished widow the most expensive coffin he had for sale.
IT, LEAHY VOLUNTEERED
McCoy. It was also pretty clear
What’s the field like? Finch
When you really get serious about some female, Clete, take a good look at her mother. That’s what your beloved will look like in twenty, thirty years.
You can’t tell what a warrior looks like.
Getting hot as hell in here. Castillo saw a Chrysler
Going to church no more makes you holy than standing in a Porsche showroom makes you a sports car.
His cylinder head temperature right at 215° Centigrade. That’s what the book said was the most efficient climbing attitude, and Major Parks flew by the book. As they passed through 12,000 feet, he put...
Intelligence is far less the gathering of information than being able to find the two or three tiny useful bits in the mountains of useless data.
Line from a biography of General George S. Patton: Never take counsel of your fears.
Where is our weeping
That, finishing, That’s what we were doing in Vienna, giving a Russian female NKGB agent, who also works for Mossad,
Three kinds of men. There’re the ones who can learn by reading. And there’re the ones who can learn by observation.’ He paused to let that sink in. And? Payne said. ‘And then there’s the rest of them...
God, it is said, takes care of fools and drunks,
Gentlemen, he said, I am a simple soldier. When I was a cadet at Norwich, I was told, and I believed, and my subsequent career has proven true, that the essence of command is to make sure the troops h...
Everybody, sooner or later, stubs their toe. When that happens, the thing to do is swallow hard and go on
And it also says, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ McCoy said. And that ‘he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
Mysterious chemistry that sometimes developed between seemingly dissimilar men—each surprisingly recognizing in the other a deep-down, kindred soul, the two of them bobbing along alone and unappreciat...
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