The Heart of Matter Quotes

“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“All right, who prayed for the miracle?” he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. “You’re all promoted. Nice work.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Usually, a country without a strong military would have had its politicians strung up by their entrails long before they managed to create quite this much red tape.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Very few things in the living universe are truely inert. So those with the eyes to see it, can precieve a very different realm from mundane world of man.”
― Evan c. currie, The Heart of Matter

“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Sometimes, particularly in the midst of an armed conflict, it was hard to tell the two apart. Genius and insanity were often separated only by the results. Unfortunately, sometimes it could take generations before you really saw the full scale of the results, and this was one of those times, Reed thought.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“More men had died because their commander wavered in his action, too afraid of making the wrong decision to make any, than had been killed by poor decisions.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“And just because you were trained to fight didn’t mean that you had to dredge up some insane antiquated notion of bloodlust to cover the moral question of whether violence was right.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Me and my reactors won’t be letting you down.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“If you want, me and this ‘hunk of junk’ can just sit the fight out from here on through.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“And that, right there, was when Crowley’s intelligent, curious, and downright insatiable mind shut down and said it had had enough for the day, come back tomorrow, if you please.”
― Evan Currie, The Heart of Matter

“There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective. He”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“A soldier had to stand ready to fight, provide humanitarian aid, teach, learn, and do a multitude of things according to the needs of society. Specialization, as one prominent author once said, was for insects. Just because you were better at one thing didn’t mean you ignored everything else. And just because you were trained to fight didn’t mean that you had to dredge up some insane antiquated notion of bloodlust to cover the moral question of whether violence was right. All”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“A soldier had to stand ready to fight, provide humanitarian aid, teach, learn, and do a multitude of things according to the needs of society. Specialization, as one prominent author once said, was for insects. Just because you were better at one thing didn’t mean you ignored everything else. And”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“There were times when it was better to beg forgiveness than ask for identification. Reed”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“A soldier fought better when he knew that he was not only needed, but appreciated back home. There were few things as degrading to man than to come home to the people you served, only to be shunned and reviled by them. It would sow a bitter vein in the forces”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“All right, roger that. Don’t get dead.” “That’s high on my list of priorities.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“If it weren’t happening, he would have sworn that their reproduction speed alone violated the laws of thermodynamics—or at least common decency. The”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Statistically, this wasn’t merely unlikely. It was like being struck by a three-mile-wide meteor the day you hit the Powerball jackpot and walking away from the impact. Patently”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Nero took another look at the screens, then turned around and headed up to the top command level, where Rael was trying to coordinate the entire mess they were currently mired in. Mostly, that just amounted to watching helplessly while their teams went about their jobs, but Nero supposed it was the thought that mattered. As”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“This is not what you call courage?” “The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,” he answered. “So ask me again when we’re back topside.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“I’m either starting to like these people, or I’m going to shoot them,”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Resistance was normal; however, it was generally futile as well. Being”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“In space, they say no one can hear you scream. That”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“The problem was, being willing to make a hard decision that risked so much was a lot like playing no-limit Texas Hold’em and going all in. It was an incredibly powerful move that worked every single time, except the last time. I”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Back in the sealed tube room, the quick-drying paint finished its job and brightly marked a large circle with a star enclosed. After all, what better to hold back the demons of hell than a pentagram?”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Once the black had surrounded him, he forced a hand forward and keyed the command that retracted the landing gear back into the plane. It wasn’t strictly necessary for aerodynamics, of course, but the extended gear would throw off the center of balance he was used to and maybe blunt the edge of his abilities. Besides, he didn’t want to look stupid. Stephanos”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic. For”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter