Steve Berry Quotes & Sayings

#1. We write because we have to, not because we want to

#2. What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

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#3. They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one.

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#4. Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

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#5. History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

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#6. We find what we search for.

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#7. Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.

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#8. People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

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#9. Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something.

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#10. I will check the hall to see if all is clear.
He lightly grasped her arm. thanks. For everything.
You are welcome, Miles Lord. You brought interest to an otherwise boring ride.

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#11. A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.

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#12. The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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#13. Sometimes I think the force is stronger in the dead than in the living.

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#14. His world was distinctly male. His experience with women minimal. They were a different breed, of that he was sure,

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#15. Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

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#16. It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

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#17. He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

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#18. What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.

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#19. But you'd need the key from which the code was assembled. The master document. Without it, there's little to no chance of breaking a cipher. That's why they're so effective.

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#20. Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

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#21. But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

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#22. Don't argue with an idiot, he'll only beat you with experience.

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#23. If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

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#24. Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

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#25. Imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.

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#26. I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

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#27. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

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#28. He found the cone and bit into it. "I'm not an errand boy." No, he wasn't. He was a fool, which made him even lower on the pole.

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#29. you don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.

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#30. And what of failure?"
He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.

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#31. Even the blind-eyed biscuit thrower occasionally hits the target.

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#32. He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest.

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#33. The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.

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#34. Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

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#35. Respect is earned.

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#36. at the sight of the sinking,

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#37. Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon,

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#38. The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

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#39. The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.

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#40. If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

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#41. Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment.

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#42. She had little respect for politicians. Especially the 21st-century variety, who seemed more concerned with their own survival than making any kind of difference. In

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#43. Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

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#44. What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

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#45. that most precious of human commodities - knowledge.

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#46. A man can accomplish much when the woman he loves supports him, even if she believes that what he does is foolishness.

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#47. Knowledge should never be feared.

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#48. He'd read once that in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in time of need, to that cherished place, seeking comfort within memories that never seemed to disappoint.

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#49. The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

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#50. I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

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#51. More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world.

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#52. no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.

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#53. Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

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#54. I checked," the 4th District representative said. "The count hasn't

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#55. A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

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#56. I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

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#57. Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

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