Daniel Silva Quotes & Sayings

With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans. — Daniel Silva

The Arab Spring had turned into the Arab Calamity. Radical Islam now controlled a swath of territory that stretched from Afghanistan to Nigeria, an accomplishment that even Bin Laden would have never dreamed possible. — Daniel Silva

No one intervened - hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant - and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying. — Daniel Silva

Fault, impeccably mannered, and had no real — Daniel Silva

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. — Daniel Silva

BLOOD NEVER SLEEPS. — Daniel Silva

Jews don't camp ... The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. — Daniel Silva

I'm a mild-mannered person. — Daniel Silva

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB — Daniel Silva

Elegant stairs to Orlov's office. The room was an exact replica — Daniel Silva

Patriotism. During his lifetime of study he had concluded it was the most destructive force on the planet. — Daniel Silva

IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE, but there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their every waking moment with hundreds of millions, even billions, of complete and utter strangers. If one went to a shopping mall to purchase an article of clothing, one did not post minute-by-minute details on a social networking site; and if one made a fool of oneself at a party, one did not leave a photographic record of the sorry episode in a digital scrapbook that would survive for all eternity. But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am. — Daniel Silva

But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining. — Daniel Silva

Keller entered the hotel, aware of the fact that several — Daniel Silva

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart. — Daniel Silva

If there was indeed a recording of the conversation that followed, it did not exist for long. Carter would never speak of it, except to say that it was among the most difficult of his long career. The only other witness was Ed Fielding. The security man could not hear Carter's words, but he could see the terrible toll they were taking. He saw a hand gripping the telephone with such force that the knuckles were white. And he saw the eyes. The unusually bright green eyes now burning with a terrifying rage. As Fielding slipped quietly from the room, he realized he had never seen such rage before. He did not know what his friend Adrian Carter was saying to the legendary Israeli assassin. But he was certain of one thing. Blood was going to flow. And men were going to die. — Daniel Silva

For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break one and another will rise in it's place. — Daniel Silva

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer. — Daniel Silva

The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official — Daniel Silva

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva

Mistral. Take the wheel for a while. I'll go down to the galley — Daniel Silva

I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before. -Gabriel Allon — Daniel Silva

The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them. — Daniel Silva

her neck so I could smell roses instead of the smoke from the fires." She opened her eyes and looked — Daniel Silva

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians. — Daniel Silva

He felt suddenly like Winston Smith in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love. — Daniel Silva

They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts. — Daniel Silva

The Europeans thought they could take in millions of immigrants from the poorest regions of the Muslim world and turn them into good little social democrats in a single generation. And look at the results. For the most part the Muslims of Europe are ghettoized and seething with anger. — Daniel Silva

Russia is classic fascism. — Daniel Silva

weak-chinned balding man in his late forties wearing a department-store suit and a mackintosh coat. He was the sort of man that young women instinctively avoided — Daniel Silva

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of. — Daniel Silva

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers. — Daniel Silva

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. — Daniel Silva

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation. — Daniel Silva

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece. — Daniel Silva

On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends. — Daniel Silva

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you. — Daniel Silva

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped. — Daniel Silva

Don't look back. You are never completely alone. — Daniel Silva

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth. — Daniel Silva

Night, some of the SS men wanted to see the dome of the — Daniel Silva

In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. — Daniel Silva

The American president had allowed the old order to topple without a viable alternative in place, a reckless act with no precedent in modern statecraft. And for some reason he had chosen this moment in time to throw Israel to the wolves. — Daniel Silva

We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass. — Daniel Silva

A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very — Daniel Silva

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence. — Daniel Silva

Crepuscular rays of light illuminated the interior of the Basilica, Moretti, faithful — Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please. — Daniel Silva

Take the operation, Gabriel - for Hannah Weinberg, if for no other reason. Get inside the network. Find out who Saladin really is and where he's operating. And then put him down before another bomb explodes." Gabriel — Daniel Silva

To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan? — Daniel Silva

I'm not comfortable around guns. — Daniel Silva

He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. - Corsican proverb — Daniel Silva

Theft of the Courtauld's signature — Daniel Silva

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years. — Daniel Silva

That's true," said Gabriel. "The American president writes love letters to the ayatollah. And us . . ." He gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders but said nothing more. — Daniel Silva

life of a professional spy as one of constant travel and mind-numbing boredom broken by interludes of sheer terror. — Daniel Silva

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German. — Daniel Silva

To be honest with you, I've always felt a little Jewish." "You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?" "I was speaking in a spiritual sense." "You're a professional assassin, Keller. — Daniel Silva

The invasion of Iraq turned the region into a cauldron. And when the new American president decided the time had come to withdraw, the cauldron boiled over. And then there was this folly we called the Arab Spring. Mubarak must go! Gaddafi must go! Assad must go!" He shook his head slowly. "It was madness, absolute madness. And now we are left with this. ISIS controls a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom, right on the doorstep of Europe. Even Bin Laden would have never dared to dream of such a thing. And what does the American president tell us? ISIS is not Islamic. ISIS is the jayvee team. — Daniel Silva