Death of Empires Quotes

“Well, since alcohol is anti-microbial, that is to say, deadly to germs, humans who drank that instead of water would die at a much lower rate from waterborne pathogens – which, prior to industrial water treatment and purification, were ubiquitous. And so the booze hounds would proliferate, out-surviving and out-reproducing the water-drinkers. Alcoholism may actually be an adaptation. Yes, that would mean the bugs on this planet have bred an entire race of booze hounds. Ain’t evolution a bitch?”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates. Do that and you’ll be fine.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“God must have leaned down out of heaven and kissed her on the forehead at birth.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.”
― Glynn James, Death of Empires

“But, ultimately, it turned out that those deceptively simple words were a lot heavier than he ever could have imagined. Because what they don’t tell you is: even after you had not given up, many times, and yet not a damned thing had come of it… you have to not give up all over again. Then you had to do it again, and again – long after you thought you’d already checked that one off.”
― Glynn James, Death of Empires

“Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Drake’s hand snatched at his mic, what felt like a day late and many dollars short, to warn the pilots – that they had basically just brought a knife to a dogfight.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“that the willingness to die for another person was a special, maybe even unique, form of love – one that even religions failed to inspire. The experience of it changes a person profoundly, and permanently. What researchers and Army psychologists had slowly come to understand, but what any grunt in a foxhole with his squad works out in five minutes, is that courage in war simply is love – nothing more, and definitely nothing less. It was love that made warriors sacrifice for each other, even give their lives for each other, in a split-second, without hesitation. Courage was simply love made visible. In combat, neither could exist without the other. They were just different ways of saying the same thing. An old adage had it that warriors didn’t fight because of hatred for what was in front of them – but because of love for what was behind them. Ali, however, and everyone she had ever served with, would say that was bullshit. They fought for love of those to either side of them.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“The world changes. We adapt to it. That’s the whole way we stay ahead, survive – and prevail.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Don’t just stand there with a stupid look on your face – do something useful with a stupid look on your face!”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires