Noel Hynd > Quotes

“Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.”
― Noel Hynd, Flowers from Berlin

“You know,” said Grover, “the only thing worse than a smart-assed lawyer is a dumb-assed lawyer.”
― Noel Hynd, The Sandler Inquiry

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”
― Noel Hynd, Conspiracy in Kiev

“table,”
― Noel Hynd, GHOSTS: 2014 edition

“You can’t worry about what you can’t control,”
― Noel Hynd, Return to Berlin: A Spy Story

“A lawless place and a lawless people, the Italians said. A true frontier of civilization. Dangerous. FIFTY-FIVE The Stanhope Hotel was on Fifth Avenue at Eighty-third Street, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was”
― Noel Hynd, Conspiracy in Kiev

“George W. Bush, the son, talked of a war on terror, then brought precisely that to the Middle East, lying to the world about the pretexts for war while causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.”
― Noel Hynd, The Enemy Within - A novel of the U.S. Secret Service

“Burdette would make coffee nervous,” his manager once said.”
― Noel Hynd, The Sputnik Season: 1957: The year New York City baseball and America changed forever.

“Diamond:”
― Noel Hynd, The Final Game at Ebbets Field

“Why had a gold hoop earring, one of a pair, tuned up on the kitchen floor when she was”
― Noel Hynd, GHOSTS: 2014 edition

“panjandrums”
― Noel Hynd, Truman's Spy: A Cold War Spy Thriller

“languages. Rather, he gave himself entirely to the raising of Laura, a beautiful little girl who,”
― Noel Hynd, Flowers from Berlin

“whole”
― Noel Hynd, Betrayal In Berlin: A Spy Story

“A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.”
― Noel Hynd, Judgment in Berlin: A Spy Story

“Coming events cast their Shadows before them. —Winston Churchill”
― Noel Hynd, The Enemy Within - A novel of the U.S. Secret Service

“Washington? A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
― Noel Hynd, The Enemy Within - A novel of the U.S. Secret Service

“Aside from the fact that she’s a horrible human being, she’s actually very nice.” Rebecca”
― Noel Hynd, Cemetery of Angels

“The Torah tells us that Noah released a dove after the flood in order to find land. The dove came back”
― Noel Hynd, Midnight in Madrid

“and”
― Noel Hynd, Revolt In Berlin: Part One: A Spy Story

“once death had settled upon a man or woman, there was much to remember but little more to say or do.”
― Noel Hynd, The Enemy Within - A novel of the U.S. Secret Service

“in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.”
― Noel Hynd, Flowers from Berlin

“Under any conditions, normality is a fragile state and can only last for so long.”
― Noel Hynd, Eisenhower's Spy

“Delivery drivers, fueled by coffee and pep pills, worked twenty to twenty-two-hour shifts, then slept for seven hours, had a meal, and returned to duty. Carpenters and construction crews formed out of nowhere and rows of Nissen huts came together in a minor miracle at the edge of the airfields. Men and women slept on floors. DPs and German veterans and anyone else who had been lucky enough to be hired were constantly disturbed all night by others looking for a sliver of space to sleep. The average participant saw it as a challenge. The older recruits had been through far worse in”
― Noel Hynd, Judgment in Berlin: A Spy Story

“Second Avenue, was now the Fondue Chalet. Why, Siegfried wondered, did not anyone in America understand the wonderful”
― Noel Hynd, Flowers from Berlin

“If your life was lonely, then your death is, too. You will dig your own grave and die as you lived.”
― Noel Hynd, The Prodigy

“Hitler, seeing an opportunity, not a disaster, and always comfortable with a lie that he could sell to his adoring public, blamed the civilian bombing on the British. The English had done it intentionally, he told the German people. He pledged revenge against “the English murderers” and started to bomb English civilians. So began the Battle of Britain, the bombing campaign aimed at London. Eventually, the citizens of Berlin would have to pay the price. But the Nazi high command remained undeterred. "Do you want total war?" Goebbels shouted to a large crowd just hours after the January 30 bombing of Berlin. “Isn’t that what you asked for?” “Ja! Ja!” the crowd roared in response. Total war was what they had asked for and total war was what they were now getting. And so the war of terror from above was underway. The unwritten rules of war from World War One seemed forgotten: in the past civilians were not bombed. The unarmed “warriors” were now delivered up to the bombs, as required by the new rules of conflict. The bombs shredded, entombed, suffocated, and incinerated women and children, old people and infants, prisoners and hospital patients, friend and foe, National Socialists and”
― Noel Hynd, Return to Berlin: A Spy Story

“If human beings invested the same ingenuity in eradicating disease and hunger that they did in swindling each other, the world might be a better place”
― Noel Hynd, Conspiracy in Kiev

“Yet part of her life seemed gone, a voice of love from the other end of a telephone was missing.”
― Noel Hynd, GHOSTS: 2014 edition

“Unites”
― Noel Hynd, Betrayal In Berlin: A Spy Story

“a”
― Noel Hynd, Eisenhower's Spy