Jon > Jon's Quotes

“Tradition is important,” Evans said. “For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It’s more than just yourself, more than just your mates—but it’s not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true—or should be true—of any professional community.”
― Tom Clancy, Patriot Games

“Lamoth dies. In shame.”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

“What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!” Master”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

“People don’t change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

“It’s a cat, but not racist.”
― Lawrence Sanders, Timothy's Game

“Saber rattling we’ve done before,” she said. “We’ve survived it. It’s a known quantity. I have a binder with nine hundred pages of analysis and contingency plans for conflict with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what we do if they develop an unexpected new technology. The binder for what we do if something comes up from Venus? It’s three pages long, and it begins Step One: Find God.” Errinwright”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“The ship name. It’s unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone’s kid or the girl they left behind after that magical weekend on Titan, I’m going to start fining people for general lack of creativity.” Holden”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Semper fi, Gunny.” “Oohrah,” Bobbie replied with a grin. On”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Yes, ma’am,” Soren said. “But I was wondering whether you should alert the security service about your decision to clear the sergeant. They do like to be in the loop on that kind of thing.” “Meow meow cry meow meow,” Avasarala said. “That’s all I heard you say.” “Yes, ma’am,” Soren said. Bobbie”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar’s not low.” The”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.” Anna”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“wasn’t built to fix shit humanity broke,” Miller said. “I didn’t come here to open gates for you and get the lockdown to let you go. That’s incidental. The thing that made me just builds roads. And now it’s using me to find out what happened to the galaxy-spanning civilization that wanted the road.” “Why”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“Later,” Amos said, “when you’re wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we’ll die.” Holden”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Dawkinsian”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“No fame and glory for you, Cortez. Montezuma wasn’t impressed by your fire stick this time.” “Everything”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required”
― Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon

“I remember when Deng said, ‘It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.’ To which Mao responded with a livid snarl: ‘What emperor said that?”
― Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon

“The ultimate strength, however, is strong in a way they can't even fathom. It can't be put into words, and no one can analyze it. Only those who have attained that level of strength know its secret. Therein lies the godlike strength that inspires the masses and makes the crowd go wild.”
― DAIGO UMEHARA, The Will to Keep Winning

“How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog’s been humping my skull.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Seriously. Now?” she said. “We’re talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that’s going through your head right now is ‘Ooh, boobies!”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“So there’s this weird thing,” she said, then dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a napkin. “Weirder than eating raw fish on a space station with one of the solar system’s most famous reporters?”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Save your energy,” he said. “The future changes as we stand here, else we are the game pieces of the gods, not their heirs, as we have been promised.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night

“It is written in the Disks of Mishakal that evil, by its very nature, will always turn in upon itself. Thus it becomes self-defeating.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night

“As soon as he gives his attention to someone at the other end of the bar, I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I've wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn't some permanent thing we're all tying to achieve in life, it's merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.”
― James Rollins, The Bone Labyrinth