Brian Andrews > Brian's Quotes

“Life is a suicide mission.”
― Orson Scott Card

“There were times—not many, but a few—when Jon Snow was glad he was a bastard.”
― george rr martin

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“When ego trumps fidelity, the end result is inevitably betrayal—betrayal of country, of kith or kin, or of self.”
― Brian Andrews

“Follow your heart. Follow your passion. As you set out on your life’s journey, don’t beholden yourself to other people’s priorities or wishes, because the end result is invariably disappointment for all parties.”
― Brian Andrews, Red Specter

“With Petrov, everything is a zero-sum game—for Russia to rise, America must fall. Everything he’s done over the past decade has been an effort to sully and tarnish the reputation of Western democracies. Promoting Brexit, actively trying to break up the EU and NATO, turning Italy against France, stoking the fires of partisanship in the United States. And while we turn inward, trying to tame and manage the chaos Russia unleashed in our house, Petrov is systematically moving his chess pieces all over the board.”
― Brian Andrews, Red Specter

“People should be measured by the depth of their depravities. Virtue can be ignored, whereas our depravities leave an indelible mark upon everyone we touch.”
― Brian Andrews, Violence of Action

“knowing it was harder to be a passive-aggressive asshole when you had to do it to someone’s face.”
― Brian Andrews, Violence of Action