Higher ground Quote by Alistair MacLean

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

“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

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

— Alistair Maclean

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

...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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”

— Alistair MacLean