Duty, Honor, Planet Quotes

“The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places. But those it cannot break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you, too, but there will be no special hurry."---Ernest Hemingway.”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."---Anon.”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy

“the horsemen'---men like Attila the Hun or Adolf Hitler; the men who believe that might makes right, who want what someone else has and would rather take it by force than work for it. He said that no matter how far humanity advances, and no matter how civilized we think we are, there'll always be the horsemen waiting in the wings to catch us with our guard down.”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become."---Brooke Foss Westcott.”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them"---Eric Hoffer.”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy

“Manning”
― Rick Partlow, Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy