Steven Becker > Quotes

“the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it’s all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, and it is all organized by the Italians.”
― Steven Becker, Storm Surge

“locals rigged their ground tackle differently, attaching the chain—known as the rode—to the end by the flukes, opposite of the standard attachment point. The rode was then routed back to the top and held in place by zip ties. A”
― Steven Becker, Storm Gods: A Fast Paced International Thriller

“Then there was the general state of sanity. If you looked through someone, really got down to their motivations, you found that they were only motivated by a few things. Money was the usual culprit. Follow the money, and it usually led to the truth, and underlying motivation. Next were the genuine do-gooders. They truly wanted change for the sake of improving people’s lot in life. The thing they didn’t understand was that their agenda could have unintended consequences. They couldn’t see past their initial goal, and really analyze a situation. Last were the people who had an agenda to make every one live by their point of view.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“The gun reassembled, he placed it in his waistband. A shoulder holster was preferable, but jackets in Key West were saved for the three days a year when the temperature got below seventy.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“Trufante on his bike.”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Betrayal

“the weather here was the same as on the Texas coast; thunderstorms were prevalent on early summer afternoons.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“The DEA had gotten the credit for two highly publicized raids in 1983 and 1984, leading to the arrests of nearly 80 percent of the adult male population of Everglades City. It was the IRS that gave them the information. The commercial fishermen-turned-drug smugglers were caught in a web of circumstances that started with the FWC shutting down much of the stone crab grounds.”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Deception: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys

“Terrorism was at its most effective when people were scared into altering their behavior.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“Sent to the US by his parents to get an American university education, he was befriended by two groups at college, both Middle Eastern. The first group were the reborn Muslims — reborn to live like Americans. They saw beyond the strict laws with which they’d been brought up. So they weren’t always about enlightenment; in fact, most of the time they were just about the fun and the girls. The second group were the fundamental Islamists, who hated everything American, more now that they lived amongst it.  Most Middle Eastern foreign students arrived naive, with heavily accented but passable English. They quickly fell in with one of those two groups, and moved into that lifestyle.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“Skeletons hung in his closet like clothes on a sales rack.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“buying a sailboat. The Gulf”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Tempest

“The founding fathers, who she had come to respect more and more as time passed, used to deliberate and write things down. This was a stage of analysis and discussion that allowed time to pass, not the hurry up and get in front of a microphone before people forget who you are which was the culture of politics today.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“The large hook on the end would easily grab the handle on the outside of Braken’s door,”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Relic

“plotted pants”
― Steven Becker, Storm Keep: A Fast Paced International Thriller

“Tell me, and I will forget, teach me and I will remember, involve me, and I will learn.”
― Steven Becker, Storm Gods: A Fast Paced International Thriller

“Women were especially in the outlawed class. Currently he was a platinum member of the Little Rascals “He-man Women Haters Club.” Not that he didn’t like women, he did. But time and experience, mostly bad, had made him wary of their charms.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“Hunter S Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“from her experience most non-profits did not view themselves as businesses, and spent little time or effort on bookkeeping.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures: The First Four

“Now you’re taking my language.”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Deception: Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys

“There”
― Steven Becker, Wood's Revenge

“to work the anchor.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures Box Set (Books 4 - 6): Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys

“He was just one of the constant stream of people running to the Keys every year, each for their own reason. They all thought they were unique snowflakes, but all had one thing in common—the real world wasn’t working for them and somehow it was never their fault.”
― Steven Becker, Mac Travis Adventures Box Set (Books 7 -9): Action and Adventure in the Florida Keys