Gregg Loomis > Quotes

“The French: Our national flag is the tricolor; our battle flag a single color: white.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Julian Secret

“Damnant quod non intelligunt.” They condemn what they do not understand.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

“The Germans have national amnesia where the war is concerned.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Julian Secret

“there were too few people around who viewed history as something older than last week’s People magazine.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

“I’m an American, remember? I’m used to my government spying on me.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Nassau Secret

“The physical laws of the universe were in effect long before the pharaohs. The ancients were aware of many and knew how to use some. Much of that knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages. A lot of that wisdom remains to be rediscovered.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“Where ignorance is bliss…” “ ’Tis folly to be wise.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Nassau Secret

“No federal crime, no warrant. No matter what you may think of the post-nine-eleven security laws, we still have a Constitution.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“Most Londoners did not know that, on average, their likenesses were transmitted forty times a day as they commuted to and from work, ran errands between buildings or simply window-shopped. The cameras were a legacy of IRA terrorism.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

“Iran’s been in the Stone Age for decades. You checked out their politics?”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“With lawyers breeding lawsuits faster than maggots in dead flesh, a new pestilence had taken over the country, a fifth horseman of the American apocalypse: Litigation, the paper death by which the victim hemorrhaged his assets until both reputation and finances were ruined. Frequently even the vaccine of insurance was not a sufficient preventative. Cover Your Ass had replaced E Pluribus Unum as the national motto.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Cathar Secret

“Odd what sticks to our memory, sort of an arbitrary choice made by the subconscious.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Poison Secret

“Like John Kennedy said, though, ‘Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Poison Secret

“Rome is located on a number of aquifers, so many that almost all of the hundreds of fountains spout potable water.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

“With verbs randomly scattered about instead of neatly stacked at the end of each sentence, verbs that had no real endings, and nondeclension nouns, the language was oral chaos.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“Simpson had not one but two inconveniently living husbands. Hence, the abdication and the romance at a time when the world could most use news that was not threatening, if not downright frightening. Edward exchanged his crown for the title Duke of Windsor. There were rumors Wallace was less than satisfied with the title of Duchess, that bigger”
― Gregg Loomis, The Nassau Secret

“The Church had, after all, survived Galileo, Luther, and Darwin. Even Dan Brown.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Julian Secret

“Amicus est tanquam alter idem, a friend is just like a second self,”
― Gregg Loomis, The Julian Secret

“Divorced, they uniformly decried the size of their alimony checks and the injustice of their prenups while refusing to seek gainful employment. Instead”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“Scarlett O’Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

“Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.”
― Gregg Loomis, Gates of Hades

“They searched endlessly for lifestyle support systems in the form of eligible men. No wealthy male was exempt. Age or infirmity of the prey was no detriment, as both potentially shortened the wait before inheritance. Many”
― Gregg Loomis, The Sinai Secret

“The meek might someday inherit the earth but it will be one that doesn’t remember them. Lang”
― Gregg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret