“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single Arab nation, but due to the famous independent streak ingrained in the Arab personality, nothing came… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
