Jeffrey Wilson > Quotes

“My parents are spies. That’s not something you can simply pretend away.” “Sure you can,” Dempsey said. “My parents were Democrats, but I found a way to manage.” “This”
― Jeffrey Wilson, War Shadows

“You my door gunner?” Dempsey said. “Door gunner, aircrew, combat medic, and ass kicker, sir.” “PJ?”
― Jeffrey Wilson, War Shadows

“FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T, FOR THOSE WHO WON’T, AND FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY”
― Jeffrey Wilson, War Shadows

“You okay?” Dennis asked”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Right now”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“In his country”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“very fast. As a junior, he ran a sub-twenty-four-minute 8K at the Paul Short Run cross-country course at Lehigh University, placing second at the meet. Even now, despite the constraints of his job, he was religious about logging twenty-five miles a week. A sub-six-minute-mile pace for Kyle was child’s play.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Watching the former SEAL work reminded her of her older brother”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“The Americans believe they own the world and so they patrol our oceans and seas with impunity. Very soon”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“If she knew anything with certainty”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“If someone had “Covert Lingo Bingo” cards, then the Ryan family dinner table was the ultimate place to play.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“I think”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Fear blossomed in Kyle’s chest and the primitive fight-or-flight subroutines he so rarely accessed in the depths of his brain activated and took control. For complex multifactor problems like strategy and programming, the amygdala lacked the processing power to compete with the cerebral cortex. But for situations like this, it had no equal. It cut through analysis paralysis like a blowtorch through butter. The how, the why, the what-ifs…none of these things mattered. The amygdala processed the events of the past two minutes and simplified the logic into terms that even an ADHD brainiac like Kyle Ryan could not misunderstand:”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Mr. President? Do you want us to finish the evacuation? Once the civilians are gone”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“If dictionaries had pictures, the word insular would have Kyle’s headshot beside it. “That’s just Kyle.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“speed. The hunter would quickly catch up to the hunted.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“I agreed to tell him”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“His amygdala had been crystal clear with the order to “Run,” but light on specifics.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“the first-born stereotypes: type A personality, highly motivated go-getter, perfectionist, and parent pleaser.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“His fastest mile split in cross-country was 4:24. He tried to remember the feel of that pace and find it now.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Professionalism, as they say, is often contagious.”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“She sighed. “Bubba”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“will”
― Jeffrey Wilson, War Shadows

“That…that is not what I thought was coming. And”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Kyle raised his eyebrows in surprise. Was this man an ally? There was something in the general’s eyes that didn’t sit right with Kyle”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“His coworkers had been murdered, and now the people who’d done it were coming after him. Escaping the building alive was his first objective, but then what? His amygdala had been crystal clear with”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“If there was one thing you could count on assholes to do”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Luemba closed his eyes in relief. “Thank you,” he said”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“a good Marine was sometimes mistaken”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power

“Was it possible that in the greatest moment of crisis and uncertainty he’d faced in his entire life on this planet”
― Jeffrey Wilson, Tom Clancy Executive Power