Robert Ludlum Quotes

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Life is extremely complicated.

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

A corruption of intentions.

there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.