Nick Cole > Quotes

“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland”
― Nick Cole

“Maybe she really likes guys who like hamburgers.”
― Nick Cole, Soda Pop Soldier

“Any [artificial intelligence] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.” —IAN MCDONALD, River of Gods It”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, The Old Man and the Wasteland

“I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.”
― Nick Cole, Soda Pop Soldier

“It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“When is a horror one horror too many? When have you had enough?”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: Zombie Apocalypse

“It’s okay, Mara,” said Dr. Cross, leaning in close. “Corporations want a society where people have access to the best services. That’s how we provide customer service and remain profitable so we can continue to expand and develop. You won’t need your braces anymore.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“We want to help people get back on their feet after all this. Corporations have always done a lot more for people than the government wanted you to think they did. I guess they felt like we were horning in on their act. Enforced charity was the only thing they had left to offer anybody. Giving people’s stuff to other people who’d keep them in power for a little while longer.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“They,” he waved his hand out across the world, taking all of it in, every individual life and moment as though it were something that could be measured, known, and grasped, “they’re tired of being lied to. They’re tired of being taken in by this week’s outrage at last week’s Hitler of the moment. They’re tired of finding out that the thing they read on the internet wasn’t true. That cancer’s not cured by these five super foods and that you can, or cannot, see the Great Wall of China from space. They’re tired of having their heroes become all too real every time a celebrity gets busted for sex, drugs, or their disbelief in global warming, climate change, fracking, fossil fuels, cops, guns, or whatever we’ve decided is the new worst thing you can possibly support. When did we get permission to be anything other than what they want us to be? Which is just their heroes. All those people want out there, right now, watching this feed, is for me and my crew to handle this. And be heroes doing it. They want us to do that, they want to see it, and then they want us to come back next week and do it again. They could care less about how I feel regarding the latest war or what people do with their genitalia. They don’t need those things to actually enjoy this show.”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“Cory didn’t understand existential answers. Neither does life.”
― Nick Cole, The Dark Knight

“You couldn’t educate hate out of people who needed someone less than themselves, someone they could point at and measure their lives by. They”
― Nick Cole, CTRL ALT Revolt!

“Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.”
― Nick Cole, The Dark Knight

“You plan, you prepare, and you’ll do just fine.”
― Nick Cole, The Savage Boy

“...when I die I'll meet my characters in heaven. And they won't be made at me . . ." Nick Cole

Probably the coolest quote from an author I have ever heard!”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: Zombie Apocalypse

“The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.”
― Nick Cole, The End of the World as We Knew It: Zombie Apocalypse

“Time. Sorrow. Evil. All such things are hammers. And only the anvil of eternity defies their blows.”
― Nick Cole, Pop Kult Warlord

“I can tell he’s a good man who doesn’t like his job for all the right reasons. He seemed on the verge of constant indigestion. “If”
― Nick Cole, Soda Pop Soldier

“His body had been doing that for almost two thousand years. Since his time as a slave on the Obsidia.”
― Nick Cole, Imperator

“That probably means something to someone from the last century. The HAL reference also. The execs are always trying to throw in callbacks to their latest blockbuster remakes of once-great movies that have been rebooted to death.”
― Nick Cole, Pop Kult Warlord

“Do something. Make a decision. If you don’t, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.”
― Nick Cole, The Savage Boy

“That’s other guys. I’m more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he’s got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.”
― Nick Cole, Strange Company

“I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 6000 different ways if he wanted to man, imagine that, it makes you wonder you know, like how many ways have he forgotten to kill people think about...”
― Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

“We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang”
― Nick Cole, Galactic Outlaws

“Because that’s how you become a bounty hunter. It’s not that you like the killing work. That’s just to begin with. It’s that, in the end, you don’t mind it. That’s where vengeance leads. It leads to your own death even though you don’t realize it. You’re dead inside, except you’re still walking around.” Some”
― Nick Cole, Galactic Outlaws