Marc Cameron > Quotes

“that which does not kill us makes us weaker for the next thing that tries to kill us.”
― Marc Cameron, Day Zero

“When two tigers fight, one is injured beyond repair—and the other one is dead.”
― Marc Cameron, Act Of Terror

“A zest for living must include a willingness to die. —ROBERT A. HEINLEIN”
― Marc Cameron, State of Emergency

“There ain’t no clean end on a turd,”
― Marc Cameron, Day Zero

“when this country falls, it will be because it rips itself to pieces from within.”
― Marc Cameron, Day Zero

“People make up stories to fill the vacuum of what they do not know, and those stories are always subject to their own insecurities. It is human nature to believe the worst in others, because we know the worst about ourselves.”
― Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy Code of Honor

“Like the Hell’s Angels’ famous credo: “Three could keep a secret—if two of them were dead.”
― Marc Cameron, Bone Rattle

“focus on the possible and let the impossible fade from your mind.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“She’s the kind of girl who’d beat a guy to death with a walrus pecker if he crossed her,”
― Marc Cameron, Day Zero

“Life in a police state is pretty good—if you are the state police.” Though”
― Marc Cameron, National Security

“President Clark rubbed his eyes with a thumb and forefinger. "This is really something," he said. " Just days until I address Congress and the nation. What am I supposed to say? 'Ladies and gentlemen, the state of the union is...infected.',”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“In China there are said to be three genders—men, women, and women with graduate degrees.”
― Marc Cameron, Brute Force

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number of men who are not good. —Niccolò Machiavelli”
― Marc Cameron, Oath of Office

“no matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
― Marc Cameron, Power and Empire

“When someone asked him why he rode, he often told them, “The same reason a dog sticks its head out the window of a moving car.”
― Marc Cameron, Act Of Terror

“The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.”
― Marc Cameron, Open Carry

“the one who found Magdalena?” Palmetto nodded. At this point, he hadn’t figured out exactly what Clark’s game was. He decided wrong, and guessed a member of the competition. “Everyone’s always looking for a Magdalena.” His confidence was returning since Clark hadn’t killed him yet. “I gave her mother five grand. She has two other daughters, though. I’m happy to put you in touch—” Clark pressed the business end of the screwdriver against Palmetto’s thigh and leaned in, feeling the satisfying scrape as the flathead nicked his femur. The man yowled in pain and surprise, but Clark hit him before he could form words—GI Joe smacking a Ken doll. Clark grimaced. “Geeze,” he said, showing mock concern. “You’re gonna want to have that looked at. I’m thinking Parrot might have had a few STDs.” Palmetto swayed”
― Marc Cameron, Power and Empire

“If you’re one in a million in China, there are only three thousand more just like you.”
― Marc Cameron, Day Zero

“It was certain to rain guards as soon as the fence was breached. Some would call that overwhelming odds. He thought of it as a target-rich environment.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“splashed with freckles while she played football”
― Marc Cameron, Oath of Office

“A lot of stuff goes into making a marriage—but it doesn’t seem to take much to break one . .”
― Marc Cameron, Cold Snap

“It was a dirty business, politics. Dirtier even than espionage, Bobkova thought, so one might as well conduct it over a nice meal.”
― Marc Cameron, Oath of Office

“the main problem with riding at such speeds with no helmet or goggles was the inability to see.”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“No matter what animal rights activists felt about the practice of “pig lab” training for military corpsmen and combat rescue officers, there was no mannequin or “lifelike” device that came close to working on something that was actually alive. Quivering flesh, the copper scent, and even the slickness of warm blood could be duplicated. But life, that vital essence that made animals different from sugar beets or ears of corn, was inimitable, no matter how sophisticated the tech.”
― Marc Cameron, State of Emergency

“Things are different out here. It’s important to know when to go along to get along. I know an AST sergeant who gives each new trooper a long”
― Marc Cameron, Stone Cross

“spent a lot of time on her back, pondering the mystery and vagaries of life. Positional prostitutional philosophy,”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack

“Okay.” “What I’m saying, Jack”—Ysabel waved a hand low in front of her lap—“is don’t look for someone who only sets you on fire here. Find someone who burns your cheek with a simple kiss.”
― Marc Cameron, Oath of Office

“A beautiful woman did not have to beg to be courted. A government should not force you to believe.”
― Marc Cameron, Active Measures

“Sometimes bad people were just that: bad people.”
― Marc Cameron, State of Emergency

“The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. —PROVERBS 28:1”
― Marc Cameron, Time of Attack