John Lyman > Quotes

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.”
― John Lyman

“Countries are run by corporations, and they have been for some time. Your elected leaders are nothing more than bobble-heads that nod to the whims of their corporate masters, and it is the vast number of warring corporate entities with their armies of lobbyists that has brought your democratic governments to a standstill.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“In the wake of the country’s newfound wealth, a religion of consumerism had spurred a mindless pursuit for greater corporate profits. This greed-fueled race eventually led to companies sending millions of manufacturing jobs overseas, resulting in the decline of the cherished middle class who made their living making things. For the first time, America’s children were looking at a lower standard of living than their parents. Corporate profit and material possessions were the new idolatry, shoving God’s message of ‘love thy neighbor’ into a dusty corner.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“We are like flames on a match that suddenly blaze forth and end just as quickly in a wisp of smoke, extinguished by a single breath, but it’s what we do during that brief flash of existence that shapes our eternal destiny.”
― John Lyman, House of Acerbi

“As long as we’re alive, there’s always hope.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“Three of its greatest leaders and their horses have been carved into the north face. Jefferson Davis and his horse, Blackjack. Robert E. Lee and Traveller. Stonewall Jackson and Little Sorrel. Riding across the craggy granite, the immense figures are breathtaking. On”
― John Lyman, Prelude to Dystopia

“What about a judicial branch?” “No lawyers, Ben. We don’t have time for that nonsense either. The justice system we have in place is fair. We’re not going to start hanging people, if that’s what you’re worried about.”
― John Lyman, Prelude to Dystopia

“What we’re fighting ... what mankind has always been fighting ... is evil. Evil will always use the most expedient route to achieve its goal of destroying humanity. It doesn’t matter what the battle is about. From the recent bloodletting over religious ideology to the hatred of another man just because of the color of his skin, evil will use whatever triggers the urge within us to hate.”
― John Lyman, House of Acerbi

“Father Morelli was also a well-known and respected church archaeologist who lived and worked in Vatican City. He was one of those veridical scholars who were always researching something, haunting the Vatican archives in an effort to uncover some small and seemingly insignificant piece of information that would lead him to his next archaeological discovery.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“It will be through the marvels of technology that the destroyer will take control of our lives,”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“The societal change had left a barren expanse of sameness and apathy across the nation.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel

“Leo feared that the seasonal birth of new life was nothing more than a cruel illusion.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - Realm of Evil

“anything that’s connected to a computer is at the mercy of this new worm. It holds the power to determine our ability to obtain the necessities of life, and it’s shutting us out.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“Only bankers get rich from people who live on credit.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - Realm of Evil

“the human capacity to remember our past is imprisoned behind a wall of ignorance.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“We can no longer endure the kind of stewardship provided by these self-serving con men who are elected by an uninformed populace,”
― John Lyman, House of Acerbi

“But why would they want to hide such a cutting edge research facility?” “Probably because they don’t want to advertise what they’re doing,” Dinning replied. “The potential financial rewards for gene-based therapy are huge, and industrial espionage in the field has become rampant over the past few years. The fact that they’ve kept it off the radar makes it perfect for us.” Dana”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“but there are two worlds surrounding us all. The physical one that we can feel all around us, and the spiritual one that remains invisible but nourishes our souls and allows us to see beyond that which is purely physical.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“this is basically a computerized electric boat.” “Electric? You mean like a sub?” “Similar. We’re as quiet in the water as one of the Los Angeles class attack subs ... which is pretty damn quiet for a surface ship.” “So what’s your power source ... nuclear?” “Rolls-Royce ... two gas turbines. They’re based on the same jet engines you see hanging from the wings of a Boeing 777.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“the architect’s flat, one-dimensional drawings.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - Rise of the Beast

“Human use, population and technology have reached that certain stage where Mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”
― John Lyman, Prelude to Dystopia

“A war doesn’t stop when a general falls on the field of battle. We must pick up his flag and continue the fight while we pray he returns.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“Approaching the beach through the surf, the drivers held the boats just offshore while twenty-four Special Forces operators and three civilians slipped over the sides in the darkness and began wading up onto the sand.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“With profit now the driving force behind higher education, the validity of the degrees it bestowed on its graduates was seriously in doubt.”
― John Lyman, House of Acerbi

“People who had been victimized by greedy Wall Street bankers and the endless partisan debates of an ineffectual Congress were cheering.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“any man who is gifted with great wealth should share it with the world,”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“It is only through our understanding of one another that we will have any chance at all of achieving some kind of peace among the religions of the world.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“If a time traveler from the 1950’s had landed in today’s America, he would have thought he had landed in some Technicolor nightmare vision of a future that couldn’t possibly exist in a country that had just watched the live broadcast of opening day at Disneyland. He would have shoved his time machine in reverse as quickly as his fingers could throw the switch without ever looking back—praying that what he had just seen wasn’t real. Sam”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“there was a melancholy sense that the world was still locked in the grayness of winter;”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - Realm of Evil

“Ad maiorem Dei gloriam—for the greater glory of God.” It was the Jesuit motto.”
― John Lyman, The Secret Chapel