The best Quotes by Tom Clancy

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

A wise man knows his limitations. And a bold one seizes opportunities.

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

Nothing, it seemed, lived longer than a perverse idea.

Chavez here, I just dropped two. The excitement of the moment masked the shame of how easy it had been. This was pure murder.

John Clark: "You get a nap. The rest of the team arrives in about half an hour."
Ding: "The rest of what team?"
John Clark: "Everybody who can move and shoot, son."

There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country - that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.

Popov: "I told them to feel free to rob the bank as a cover for the real mission -"
John Brightling: "Which was?"
Popov: "To be killed."