463 Quotes by Lee Child

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly.

Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is to misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage.

What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. He thought JFK had said it. I thought it was actually Friedrich Nietzsche, and he said destroy, not kill. What doesn’t destroy us makes us stronger.

It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

Reacher waited. A minute later a car came driving out of town, but it was full. Two in the front, two in the back. No room for a hitchhiker, especially one as large as Reacher. He recognized people he had seen in the diner, disconsolate and complaining, boots on and ready, backpacks piled in the corner, no place to go.

He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.

I don’t care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Don’t let ego get in the way of a good decision.” “You just trashed every general in our nation’s history.

It’s been running for years. On social media. Conspiracy theories. Attempts to undermine the mainstream media.