"Life was such a strange thing, so permanent……" — Tom Clancy
"Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?"
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105 Quotes by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy has 105 quotes on this site.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is…
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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into…
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need…
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why…
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of…
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on…
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Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his…
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The good old days are now.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.…
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More Fleeting Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and…
— Andre Breton
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used…
— Kobe Bryant
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The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in…
— Julie Burchill
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look…
— Fred Allen
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Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
— Tori Amos
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