Right now you’re wondering what’s the best time and place to kill me. You know you’ll need to take me by surprise because you’re not sure if you can take me if I know it’s coming. Let me save you the trouble. You can’t.[to Picard]
Plans go to hell soon as first shot’s been fired, so your first shot better be your best shot.
Phobias are emotional reactions to perceived, but unreal, threats.
People live and then they die. As long as we do both properly, there’s nothing much to regret.[to Neagley]
People leave me and my pals alone, I leave them alone. They don’t, I don’t.
Pen is mightier than the sword.[Russell Plum]Depends on who’s wielding the sword.[Jack Reacher]
No one misses me when they walk by.
Never turn your back on a viable enemy to save a fellow soldier. You only get two dead soldiers that way.[to Frasconi]
Like my mother said, trouble always seems to find me.
It’s hard for a man, if he’s halfway decent, to leave his family behind.
It won’t be forever. We just need to kill a few more people.[to Marlo and Jane]
It was 25 years ago, I don’t know.[John Sampson]That’s your answer for everything. You’re in the perfect line of work, you know that, Congressman?[Jack Reacher]