Jack Higgins Quotes

#1. up to fifty thousand pounds for Miller's death." VOLKOV OBVIOUSLY CALLED the Broker about it, too, because it wasn't much more

Jack Higgins

#2. Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Ayn Rand

#3. Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?

Kristan Higgins

#4. The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah

#5. When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Stephen Frears

#6. tried to straighten it. "I must look a mess," she said and smiled.

Jack Higgins

#7. If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

Karan Bajaj

#8. I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

Jack Higgins

#9. The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite

Jack Higgins

#10. My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Jack Higgins

#11. Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

Jack Higgins

#12. Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?

Anita Diamant

#13. A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

Jack Higgins

#14. Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead

Jack Higgins

#15. In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

Jack Higgins

#16. Baxter and Sam Hall. 'I'll have a large Scotch, I'm

Jack Higgins

#17. He produced a black plastic box with a

Jack Higgins

#18. So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish ...

Gerald Durrell

#19. think the great American public would be pleased.

Jack Higgins

#20. There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. THERE IS an old saying that in Belfast it rains five days out

Jack Higgins

#22. I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

Anne Sexton

#23. No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He

Jack Higgins

#24. No touching Baby Jesus."
"But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.
"Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume.

John Irving

#25. The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

Sri Chinmoy

#26. Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

Jack Higgins

#27. International terrorism needs money to keep going," Villiers said. "A great deal of money, not only for arms, which are expensive, but to fund operations. Drugs are a ready source of that kind of money,

Jack Higgins

#28. I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

Jack Higgins

#29. Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.

Jack Higgins

#30. The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.

Jack Higgins

#31. Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

Jack Higgins

#32. A raving loony. She must be," Billy

Jack Higgins

#33. Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

Stephen Covey

#34. My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

Jack Higgins

#35. dropped into France to organize the Maquis in the Vosges Mountains. He did damned well,

Jack Higgins

#36. I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

Missy Elliott

#37. Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

Stephen King

#38. I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.

Jack Higgins

#39. Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

Jack Higgins

#40. I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.

Jack Higgins

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Jack Higgins

#42. Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

Wojciech Kurtyka