Sam Bourne > Quotes

“An ancient Jewish teaching holds that to save a life is to save the whole world.”
― Sam Bourne, The Righteous Men

“It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.”
― Sam Bourne, To Kill the President

“because I am the king of this world. That's right, Costello.' He stood once again, 'I was once the master and lord supreme of this dominion. These people are my people. The lonely virgins living in their moms' basement who never read a conspiracy theory they didn't believe, and who never saw a corpse within 25 miles of the Beltway that died of natural causes - they are,' and here McNamara raised his arms aloft, in the manner of a TV Evangelist, to mimic a Southern preachers accent, 'my people.”
― Sam Bourne, To Kill the President

“looking for the cosy armchairs that had originally made Starbucks’ name, back in those distant days of the early 1990s when the hand-written blackboard signage and pierced noses of the baristas deluded people into thinking the cafés were vaguely alternative, even grungy – what with the Seattle connection and all – rather than a corporate chain bent on global domination. The”
― Sam Bourne, The Final Reckoning

“Look, he’s not like you and me. He’s … unpredictable. He’s volatile. He can have strong … moods.”
― Sam Bourne, To Kill the President