Renegade Quotes

“When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,’ he’d said, ‘never play yourself down. It’s unprofessional”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“but the one thing they’d taught him in the Academy that he already knew from his father was that a man only got as much respect as he gave himself.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“And there’s nothing in all human space that scares me like human leadership scared of facts.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“She was sipping some dreadful vegetable smoothie concoction that looked like minced caterpillars.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity’.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,’ he’d said, ‘never play yourself down.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“Relying on the praise of others could become a habit, and those in the habit would seek that praise like an addict and his drug. Strength came through self-belief, and the belief of others without belief in yourself was useless. Chalk was still chalk, even surrounded by granite.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“There is an old joke the chah'nas used to say; they said that among friends, a trouble shared is a trouble halved… but that among tavalai, a trouble shared is a trouble multiplied, retold, translated into five hundred tongues and turned into opera.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“Better than Hope,” said Trace. “What the fuck is Hope? Hope for what? An icecream? A quick death?” Bemusement on the faces of several marines. “Uh, isn’t that kind of the point?” Arime asked. “That Hope can mean anything you want it to?” “It means nothing,” Trace said flatly. “I’m sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“I’m sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade

“Fear was debilitating, and she hated it — the thudding heart, the endless, breathless tension. She recalled what Major Thakur had said, that those who feared most often failed on the climb, or died. Fear was sometimes useful, but when the thing you feared was present in everything around you, and prevented you from dealing with your situation practically, it became a pointless distraction.”
― Joel Shepherd, Renegade