Top 56 Daniel Silva Quotes
#1. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.
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#2. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.
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#3. For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break one and another will rise in it's place.
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#4. Patriotism. During his lifetime of study he had concluded it was the most destructive force on the planet.
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#5. weak-chinned balding man in his late forties wearing a department-store suit and a mackintosh coat. He was the sort of man that young women instinctively avoided
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#6. We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.
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#7. The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official
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#8. Fault, impeccably mannered, and had no real
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#9. The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
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#10. He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. - Corsican proverb
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#11. I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.
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#12. Crepuscular rays of light illuminated the interior of the Basilica, Moretti, faithful
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#13. The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.
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#14. I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
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#15. I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before. -Gabriel Allon
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#16. Mistral. Take the wheel for a while. I'll go down to the galley
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#17. The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.
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#18. I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.
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#19. They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.
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#20. The American president had allowed the old order to topple without a viable alternative in place, a reckless act with no precedent in modern statecraft. And for some reason he had chosen this moment in time to throw Israel to the wolves.
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#21. We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.
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#22. Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth.
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#23. I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.
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#24. The Europeans thought they could take in millions of immigrants from the poorest regions of the Muslim world and turn them into good little social democrats in a single generation. And look at the results. For the most part the Muslims of Europe are ghettoized and seething with anger.
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#25. Night, some of the SS men wanted to see the dome of the
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#27. After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
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#28. So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.
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#30. To be honest with you, I've always felt a little Jewish." "You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?" "I was speaking in a spiritual sense." "You're a professional assassin, Keller.
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#31. He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.
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#32. Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.
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#33. Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.
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#34. That's true," said Gabriel. "The American president writes love letters to the ayatollah. And us . . ." He gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders but said nothing more.
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#35. But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.
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#36. If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB
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#37. Keller entered the hotel, aware of the fact that several
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#38. The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.
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#39. When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.
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#40. To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?
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#41. He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.
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#42. A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very
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#43. Take the operation, Gabriel - for Hannah Weinberg, if for no other reason. Get inside the network. Find out who Saladin really is and where he's operating. And then put him down before another bomb explodes." Gabriel
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#44. The Arab Spring had turned into the Arab Calamity. Radical Islam now controlled a swath of territory that stretched from Afghanistan to Nigeria, an accomplishment that even Bin Laden would have never dreamed possible.
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#47. No one intervened - hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant - and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.
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#48. Don't look back. You are never completely alone.
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#49. Elegant stairs to Orlov's office. The room was an exact replica
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#50. On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.
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#52. life of a professional spy as one of constant travel and mind-numbing boredom broken by interludes of sheer terror.
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#53. her neck so I could smell roses instead of the smoke from the fires." She opened her eyes and looked
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#54. With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.
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#55. He felt suddenly like Winston Smith in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.
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#56. Jews don't camp ... The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
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