Steve Berry Quotes & Sayings

What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening. — Steve Berry

Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something. — Steve Berry

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse. — Steve Berry

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough. — Steve Berry

What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do. — Steve Berry

He found the cone and bit into it. "I'm not an errand boy." No, he wasn't. He was a fool, which made him even lower on the pole. — Steve Berry

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily. — Steve Berry

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit. — Steve Berry

But you'd need the key from which the code was assembled. The master document. Without it, there's little to no chance of breaking a cipher. That's why they're so effective. — Steve Berry

I will check the hall to see if all is clear.
He lightly grasped her arm. thanks. For everything.
You are welcome, Miles Lord. You brought interest to an otherwise boring ride. — Steve Berry

Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment. — Steve Berry

at the sight of the sinking, — Steve Berry

A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. — Steve Berry

1. "...All the complicated things in life can be settled over a cup of coffee. A person will tell more of their private life after one good cup of coffee, than after a magnum of Champagne or a quarter of port.." ((page 79)).

2. "..Care for the needy,comfort the distressed, befriend the rejected.." ((Simon's Testimony..page 464..))

3."..The man Jesus said that was wrong and offered the sick the courage to become well, the weak the ability to grow a strong spirit, and nonbelievers the chance to believe.." ((Simon's Testimony..page 461)) — Steve Berry

A man can accomplish much when the woman he loves supports him, even if she believes that what he does is foolishness. — Steve Berry

How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It's absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible. — Steve Berry

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. ABRAHAM LINCOLN January 12, 1848 — Steve Berry

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence. — Steve Berry

We find what we search for. — Steve Berry

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. — Steve Berry

All of us bear God's image, all are worthy to be loved, all can grow in the spirit of God. — Steve Berry

Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon, — Steve Berry

that most precious of human commodities - knowledge. — Steve Berry

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate? — Steve Berry

And what of failure?"
He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances. — Steve Berry

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble. — Steve Berry

The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free. — Steve Berry

Sometimes I think the force is stronger in the dead than in the living. — Steve Berry

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness. — Steve Berry

Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy. — Steve Berry

no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience. — Steve Berry

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk. — Steve Berry

Don't argue with an idiot, he'll only beat you with experience. — Steve Berry

Respect is earned. — Steve Berry

He'd read once that in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in time of need, to that cherished place, seeking comfort within memories that never seemed to disappoint. — Steve Berry

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past. — Steve Berry

Words are the true weapons of mass destruction — Steve Berry

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them. — Steve Berry

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love. — Steve Berry

The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — Steve Berry

Raising tax rates does not raise revenues. In fact, just the opposite happens. The rich just find a way to legally shelter their money and avoid the higher taxes. And who could blame them. But every time we've lowered tax rates, revenues rose. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover. Kennedy. Reagan. Bush. They all got that. — Steve Berry

His world was distinctly male. His experience with women minimal. They were a different breed, of that he was sure, — Steve Berry

Imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled. — Steve Berry

But heroes, at times, had to be fools. — Steve Berry

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble. — Steve Berry

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings. — Steve Berry

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. — Steve Berry

Knowledge should never be feared. — Steve Berry

I detest those who deceive me... — Steve Berry

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed. — Steve Berry

He'd was called first Cephas in Aramaic, then Petros, rock, in Greek. Eventually he became Peter and the Gospels proclaimed that Christ said, Upon this rock I shall build my church.'
The testimony was the first ancient account he'd ever read that made sense. No supernatural events or miraculous apparitions. No actions contrary to history or logic. No inconsistent details that cast doubt on credibility. Just the testimony by a simple fisherman of how he'd borne witness to a great man, one whose good works and kind words lived on after his death, enough to inspire him to continue the cause. — Steve Berry

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps. — Steve Berry

Even the blind-eyed biscuit thrower occasionally hits the target. — Steve Berry

We write because we have to, not because we want to — Steve Berry

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS — Steve Berry

She had little respect for politicians. Especially the 21st-century variety, who seemed more concerned with their own survival than making any kind of difference. In — Steve Berry

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons. — Steve Berry

you don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice. — Steve Berry

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to. — Steve Berry

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it. — Steve Berry

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us. — Steve Berry

I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination. — Steve Berry

I checked," the 4th District representative said. "The count hasn't — Steve Berry

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved. — Steve Berry

He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest. — Steve Berry

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. — Steve Berry

More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world. — Steve Berry

Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way. — Steve Berry

They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one. — Steve Berry

The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them. — Steve Berry

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry