Homeworld Quotes

“If she survived, she’d learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Let’s not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let’s just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“He’d always wondered what he’d do when victory wasn’t an option.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Don’t panic. Never panic. Be concerned, yes. Cautious, certainly. Even afraid, if the situation warrants…but never panic. I have too much to do to waste my time like that.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Honestly, there probably wasn’t a lot of difference between them.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“A wounded tiger was still a tiger, after all, and more pity to you if you were within the reach of its claws and teeth.”
― Evan Currie, Homeworld

“That was the only thing that was keeping down the feelings of panic among those who’d seen the numbers. When the Captain was smiling before or during a battle, it generally meant that he knew the punch line to a joke that the enemy wasn’t going to appreciate. Still, it was always nicer if you were in on the joke.”
― Evan Currie, Homeworld

“The worst of it was that there was nothing she, or anyone, could do. Earth’s fate now rested surely on the shoulders of men and women several light-years away, men and women who were almost certainly outgunned and outnumbered. She locked the door of her office with the touch of a button, put her face down in her arms, and cried.”
― Evan Currie, Homeworld

“For decades, the U.S. and most western nations had let their infrastructure crumble and rot away while China and other Asian nations had invested in the best technology of the day. The U.S. in particular was literally beggared by a point-by-point comparison. As early as 2010, places like Korea and Hong Kong had had Internet and information network access that made the United States look like a third-world country.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Let’s not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let’s just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.” Roberts nodded slowly, smiling. “Right you are, sir. Right you are.” “Battle stations!” Eric snarled, leaning forward. “Stand by all weapons! Check fire until you see the white of their eyes….”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“It’s quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own,”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“I’ve always wondered what I would do if faced with an Alamo of my own, Eric thought...He’d always wondered what he’d do when victory wasn’t an option.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Spies were best described as whiny little bitches at the best of times, and that was when they were working.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“It is a hard thing to look into the singular abyss and know that there is no escape, that even were you light itself, you could not run from your fate.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Stress is for when you have options, decisions to make.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Earth’s orbital grid was a mish-mash of new and old systems, not even a tenth as deadly as it should be due to political considerations that, until very recently, seemed so incredibly important.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“When there were more of the enemy than you had bullets, you knew that you were in a bad, bad place.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Damn. Looks like a concert I went to once in L.A.,” Cardsharp said, voice slightly awed. “Only there were more lasers in L.A., I think.” “Any of them able to turn you and your bird into expanding plasma?” Steph asked dryly. “It was L.A., Boss.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Andrea, I love you and you’re a great officer, but you need to stop cheering me up before I decide to shoot myself with my own service piece.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“He didn’t know what his measly five birds would be able to do, but they’d be ready to do it if he had to personally launch them into space with a rubber band tied across the flight deck.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“The primal mentality of the mob could no more survive in small groups than your average human could chop his own hand off and order it to do his bidding afterwards.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“There was a time and place for sweet talk, and the time was when she was drunk while the place was the privacy of her bedroom.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“I suppose it’s a good thing that the Marines taught me to work with what I had instead of what I needed, Eric thought dryly as he ran a few more calculations through the computer. Otherwise this job would be frustrating and impossible instead of just impossible.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“That would be one lousy way to end the human race, locked in a nuclear war with the Block while a Drasin fleet came down on all their heads. Not that there are many good ways to end the human race, I suppose.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it’s more than twenty-four hours away,”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“while the U.S. Marines Corps were well known for being the people to call if you absolutely, positively wanted something destroyed overnight…when it had to be taken out in an hour or your money back, you called the Archangels.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“He was an advocate of the expression that one must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it, though in his less optimistic moments he felt that if one did learn from history then you were doomed to watch others repeat it. Humanity, honestly, did very little that didn’t disappoint him as a whole.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“History was one of the things that Eric studied, both professionally and personally. He was an advocate of the expression that one must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it, though in his less optimistic moments he felt that if one did learn from history then you were doomed to watch others repeat it. Humanity, honestly, did very little that didn’t disappoint him as a whole.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“While it would be great if the enemy kept on treating them like they were dumb and dumber, there came a point where acting stupid just became being stupid.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“With any luck, they’ll spend so much time wondering where we’re hiding our ships that we’ll have time to build a couple more.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld