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Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16) QUOTES

Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16) QUOTES

1 " They had one mantra, and it came straight from the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan. If you fall, fall forward "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

2 " Nicholas is smart, though. He doesn’t push it directly at Vottari. He pushes it through other people Vottari knows and trusts on SnapChat, Instagram, et cetera. They repost it and it keeps showing up in his feeds. That’s it. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

3 " Harvath shrugged as his phone chimed. “That’s social media for you. There’s a reason the intelligence community loves it so much. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

4 " Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

5 " Godspeed. Citius venit malum quam revertitur. Evil arrives faster than it departs. PROLOGUE ITALIAN COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS MARITIME RESCUE COORDINATION CENTER ROME An explosion of thunder shook the building as Lieutenant Pietro Renzi, dressed in his Navy whites, answered the phone in front of him. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

6 " Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

7 " As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

8 " As Ben Franklin was alleged to have said, those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

9 " People weakened their hands by feeling they had to fill uncomfortable silences. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

10 " The fundamentalism that drove them was a cancer. It infected almost everyone it touched. And yet the people best positioned to remove the cancer lacked the courage and the desire to do so. No matter how many atrocities were committed in the name of their religion and their God, the Muslim world was wholly incapable of combating the problem. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

11 " The weapon’s rounds tore through it like an angry child stabbing a gingerbread house with a screwdriver. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

12 " Evil arrives faster than it departs. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

13 " She nodded again. “It typically starts with difficultly retaining new information. Then, as it moves through the brain, symptoms get more severe. Confusion about times, dates, places, and events are common, along with disorientation, and deepening suspicion of friends and family. Behavior changes are often seen, and eventually there’s more serious memory loss, which can be followed by the inability to speak, swallow, or walk. None of it’s pretty.” Smiling, "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)

14 " they supposed to do once they got him there?” The CIA operative asked the mobster and then replied, “Apparently, he had his own people there who would get him the rest of the way into Europe. "

― Brad Thor , Use of Force (Scot Harvath, #16)