Code Of Conduct Quotes
"The only way out was through the front door."
"If it could go wrong, it would go wrong, especially in Africa."
"If you see anyone other than Mick come down that trail, you shoot them."
"If she didn’t fall in love with her mark, then yes."
"The bloodbath was over. But everything else was just beginning."
"In the process of healing, they noted that she had suffered an array of facial fractures."
"When one girl, a woman Helena deeply cared for, did die—that was her breaking point."
"We need to slam a red-hot jolt of adrenaline right into her chest."
"Not every life is worth saving, Dr. Decker. In fact, some aren’t even worth fighting for."
"Without someone willing to protect it, it can’t exist."
"I’m good at it, Dr. Decker, in the same way I’m sure you’re good at what you do. Because that’s my job."
"True nobility came in offering that protection freely."
"People and arguments were usually more nuanced than that."
"He always carried two pills in a small paper envelope just in case."
"The suite resembled the pictures he had viewed on the hotel’s web site."
"Bentzi had never heard of it. Members of the panel were neither identified by name, nor their country of origin, only by number—one through seven."
"Decrease current human population below five hundred million and keep it in perpetual balance with nature."
"Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity."
"Unite humanity with a 'living' new language."
"Redistribute global wealth under the more acceptable term 'global public goods.'"
"Rebalance personal rights with 'social duties.'"
"Replace passion, faith, and tradition with reason."
"Make clever use of new technologies to go around national governments and establish direct ties with citizens."
"Rebrand global governance as equitable, efficient, and the logical next step in human evolution."
"Discredit, delegitimize, and dismantle the idea of the nation state/national sovereignty."
"Prepare a mechanism to neutralize any challenges to United Nations’ authority."
"The only easy day was yesterday, Failure is not an option, and Never Quit were SEAL mottos that had become a part of him."
"You can’t always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it."
"The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny."
"In the world of intelligence, biometric technology was a blessing and a curse."
"Every Muslim who is physically and financially able is obligated to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca in their lifetime."
"You break into my house in the middle of the night with a butcher knife, I’m not going to leave my shotgun under the bed out of 'fairness.'"
"Actively targeting Americans at home, on American soil, was where the slope got slipperier."
"If I hear the name Vincent Geller one more time, I’ll have you rendered to a black site, and we can continue our conversation there. Is that clear?"
"The tendency of bureaucrats to favor more bureaucracy notwithstanding, we’re still a nation of laws, and they take an oath."
"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
"You don’t get to see what we have until you start cooperating."
"None of them were good. All of them were dangerous and outside the rule of law."
"If it ever gave you an opportunity, you took it. You made something of it or you didn’t."
"Life was cruel. If it ever gave you an opportunity, you took it."
"Life is about survival, as it always had been."
"Inter arma enim silent leges. In times of violence, the law falls mute."
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
"Every minute hospital or emergency response personnel spend on non-life-threatening issues is a minute denied a heart attack or severely injured patient."
"The thin veneer of civilization was stripping away."
"Silence too often helps give rise to violence."
"Just a raccoon," Harvath said to himself. "Don’t get out of your chair."
"As Harvath continued to watch, he willed the man to break it off, to pick up the radio and tell his colleagues that it was nothing."
"Any hope of that happening, though, was dashed when the man neared the trees and definitely saw the operators beyond."
"Harvath leapt to his feet and gave the command to hit the house."
"When one of the guards came around the back of the house, Harvath turned, fired, and dropped him."
"The house smelled musty and unused. There was the odor of stale coffee and a hint of a long-dead creature, probably a mouse, rotting somewhere behind one of the walls."
"The carpeted floor creaked in spots beneath his boots."
"Jamming his suppressor under the man’s chin, he fired."
"That was from Helena," Harvath said. "Now tell me where Damien is."
"Undoing his chest strap and belly-band, he splashed down thirty-two nautical miles north-northwest of Nassau."
"The island had played host to the rich and powerful of its day."
"Jeffery had not only conducted the torture of Helena, but had led her gang rape once Damien had fled."
"Using one of the archways of the open-air courtyard to conceal himself, Harvath waited for the first guard to pass, and then he sprang."
"The man was so close, he could hear him breathing."
"Harvath jerked back, getting caught in the side of the face with a glancing but painful blow."
"Hugging the south wing, he used the tall, ornamental grasses Damien had planted to his advantage."
"The home was just as he had imagined. From its marble entry floor and fixtures, to its sweeping staircase and green palm frond wallpaper, it looked frozen in the 1940s."
"The United States wants your full and complete confession," Harvath said.
"Some experts, not all, think it is burning itself out."
"You can’t always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it."