Best Jack Reacher Quotes

#1. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks." - Jack Reacher

Lee Child

#2. I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

Lee Child

#3. Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?

Stephen Arnott

#4. An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

Lee Child

#5. Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher

M.J. Rose

#6. No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Lee Child

#7. hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot

Lee Child

#8. A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

Lee Child

#9. I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

Lee Child

#10. Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

Lee Child

#11. He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'

'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?

Stephen Arnott

#12. Shotguns and children don't mix.

Lee Child

#13. Spread love and understanding," Reacher said. "Use force if necessary.

Lee Child

#14. Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.

Lee Child

#15. The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.

Lee Child

#16. I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

Lee Child

#17. Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.

Lee Child

#18. Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

Lee Child

#19. Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

Ken Follett

#20. Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Lee Child

#21. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

Lee Child

#22. Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.

Stephen Arnott

#23. Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Lee Child

#24. I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Lee Child

#25. I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.

Michael Connelly

#26. I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

Lee Child

#27. Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

Lee Child

#28. To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.

Lee Child

#29. I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Lee Child

#30. I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

Lee Child

#31. Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.

Lee Child

#32. I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great ... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.

Jai Courtney

#33. Now you had one come back, Harley.

Lee Child

#34. Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Lee Child