Robert Ludlum famous quotes

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

#Jewels #Flesh #Stones

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

#Battle #Conflict #Individual

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Believe #I Believe #Absurd

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

#Thinking #Trying #Moments

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

#Way #Helpless

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.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Long #Stronger #Littles

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

#Games #Play #Gentleman

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

#Summer #Beach #Loneliness

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

#Powerful #Drama #Vision

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

#Mean #Trying #Hell

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.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Panic #Crash #Turns

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.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Pain #Recovery #Past

Learn always but never appear to be learning.
-- Robert Ludlum

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

#Blessed #Shapes #Bent

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

#Men #Remember

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

#World #Easier #Grows

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.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Men #Gossip #Stopping

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

#Men #Weakness #May

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

#Vegetables #Resourceful

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

#Smart #Thinking #Jason

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

#Moving #Two #Use

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

#Moving #Struggle #Important

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

#Feel Better #Men #Coward

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

#Arrogance #Instruments #Collapse

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
-- Robert Ludlum

#Beach #Wind #Sea

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.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Lying #Simplicity #Fundamentals

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Characterization #Theatrical

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

#Doe #Theater #Should

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

#Trying #Nuance #Behavior

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

#Emotion #Dangerous

Life is extremely complicated.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Life Is #Complicated

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

#Hate #Love Is #And Love

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

#Hands #Economic