David Archer > Quotes

“Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“His words were creating a bewildering maze of grammatically inappropriate junctures. It was the kind of maze where small, white mice died without ever finding the little lever.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“​It was a delightful drive up to Great Falls. There were more trees than people, which is always a good sign.”
― David Archer, Executive Order

“He once told Peter that it was no good trying to tame a thing completely. You had to let it have a little of its wild side. Otherwise you kill what it is.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.”
― David Archer, All The King's Men

“God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves”
― David Archer, A Wolf Among Men

“And for all the net zero bullshit, wind farms and green sustainable energy they fantasize about, we are headed irrevocably towards the shit-caked dystopia that Lamoureux predicted.”
― David Archer, Extinction C-14

“For a moment I was assaulted by the nightmare vision of DC as a wrecked, blackened graveyard of twisted steel girders and crumbling concrete. It had happened to Nagasaki and to Hiroshima. People, normal families, couples, children, had been going about their daily lives. A plane had appeared far above them, in the sky; most of them hadn’t even seen it. Its payload dropped from its belly while the children played and people chatted, and it never even reached the ground. ​The transition from “normal everyday” to total annihilation had happened in fractions of a second.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“Noah, Noah,” Monique said. “Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.”
― David Archer, Time To Hunt

“I don’t know, Mr. Mason,” he said at last, “whether evil is like a weed that grows in suitable conditions, or whether it is a condition that occurs in some human beings. Be that as it may, I have no doubt at all that the men who run those cartels are evil, in the deepest, simplest, plainest sense of the word. Evil.”
― David Archer, All The King's Men

“He appears to hit the office when he feels inspired. Spending a few hours working heatedly before the creative impulse evaporates and he leaves the study.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.”
― David Archer, Odin

“there’d always be an assistant provided to someone who was so busy that they were in danger of getting sloppy. This was not any kind of commentary on one’s capabilities or skills—no. It was simply a fact of the way priorities are laid out.”
― David Archer, Alpha

“had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ​But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“Genius is the ability to see past the limitations that most of us are faced with, and accomplish the impossible.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“Moscow, Russia It is a commonly held belief that twins, especially identical ones, share an inherent understanding of their co-twin’s emotional state. They report experiences of enhanced emotional or physical connection, such as having a feeling of something being wrong when their twin is in crisis.”
― David Archer, Unpunished Deeds

“Panic demands you do something, but when there is nothing you can do, you go beyond despair.”
― David Archer, Executive Order

“If he was going to be in solitary confinement, he might as well play a little solitaire.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“Time must be a woman because she was the greatest and most subtle traitor of all!”
― David Archer, Executive Order

“One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.”
― David Archer, Lone Wolf

“The stock market crash of ’29 did more damage to this country than either of the World Wars or the Cold War, and that was triggered by uncertainty and chaos.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“Sam wanted to stop cutting off heads, and find the creature's heart, but there was almost no evidence as to where that heart might be. They knew there was something big behind the drug operations in the city, but it was so well organized and so carefully designed that no one seemed to have any idea where or how to find it.”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“Vos poured the water into both their cups,”
― David Archer, The Amsterdam File

“Before fighting,” she said, “we learn pain. Only once we learn how to control pain, can we overcome our fear of it. Once we overcome fear, we can learn to fight freely without the crippling weight of apprehension. That is when we will move on to fighting.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“We operate on the philosophy that it’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― David Archer, Black Sheep

“I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon’s Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso’s people with both eyes on the same side of their face.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“nodded again. "Exactly," he said. "According to Bible prophecy, that will be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on earth. The blood of the soldiers who die will run in streams, it says, as deep as a horse's bridle, but Israel will not be defeated." Sam looked up at him.”
― David Archer, Drifter: Part Two

“​Again, this exists in people to differing degrees, and it is possible to have someone who is neutral—right in the middle of the spectrum. But Jimmy Palmer isn’t neutral. He is about as far down in the dark depths as you can go. He is a sociopath. A psychopath. A man who has no feeling for those of his fellow creatures. He sees his family as his own to do whatever he wants with.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin