The Heist Quotes

“IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE, but there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their every waking moment with hundreds of millions, even billions, of complete and utter strangers. If one went to a shopping mall to purchase an article of clothing, one did not post minute-by-minute details on a social networking site; and if one made a fool of oneself at a party, one did not leave a photographic record of the sorry episode in a digital scrapbook that would survive for all eternity. But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“BLOOD NEVER SLEEPS.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“We all choose the life we lead. – Christopher Keller”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“You see, Allon, in the art world, perception is reality. - General Cesare Ferrari”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their every waking moment with hundreds of millions, even billions, of complete and utter strangers. If one went to a shopping mall to purchase an article of clothing, one did not post minute-by-minute details on a social networking site; and if one made a fool of oneself at a party, one did not leave a photographic record of the sorry episode in a digital scrapbook that would survive for all eternity. But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“What followed was the worst massacre in the history of the modern Middle East, a monthlong frenzy of killing, torture, and destruction that left at least twenty thousand people dead and a city reduced to rubble. The ruler never denied the massacre, nor did he quibble over the number of dead. In fact, he allowed the city to lie in ruins for months as a reminder of what would happen to those who dared to challenge him. In the Middle East, a new term came into vogue: Hama Rules.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“left on; a woman with a low, bored voice was reading a news bulletin”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general’s official”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“Season”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“Most stolen art is gone forever.... The lone bit of good news is that the better the painting, the better the odds it will someday be found. – Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“garrison”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“The rule of thumb is that the stolen painting ratings ten percent of its value on the black market. If the Caravaggio were worth fifty million on the open market, with such five million dirty. - Maurice Durand”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“It seems difficult to imagine, but there was once a time when human beings did not feel the need to share their every waking moment with hundreds of millions, even billions of complete and utter strangers. If one went to a shopping mall to purchase an article of clothing, one did not post minute-by-minute details on a social networking site; and if one made a fool of oneself at a party, one did not leave a photographic record of the sorry episode in a digital scrapbook that would survive for all eternity. But now, in the era of lost in inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud then to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the elusive promise of celebrity , even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“Employers had learned long ago that the online presence of an individual spoke volumes about his character.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“began”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“All of us make compromises in life. - Olivia Watson”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist

“lamps”
― Daniel Silva, The Heist