Victor Milán > Quotes

“Careful what you wish for, lad, Rob thought. Blood’s not so easy to put back in, once you let it flow. Your own no more than anybody else’s.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“There’s always another weapon to hand, if only you look.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“What I’ve always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I’m at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“This is war, and we get what we get, not what we want.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“You have the power. Use it.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Never give an order you know won’t be obeyed.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Skill without self-mastery is hollow. A set of clever tricks, no more.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Beware getting what you want, son.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Be careful starting anything you don’t know how will end.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Courage is as common as young men with more sperm in their sacks than sense in their skulls,” Karyl said. “The willingness of men and women to die without question is a virtue primarily for the unworthy, who use it for their gain.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“The longest journey begins with one small step.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“No day’s too fair to die on, nor too foul either.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“One thing you should know.
This world—Paradise—isn’t Earth.
It wasn’t Earth. It won’t ever be Earth.
It is no alternate Earth.
All else is possible....”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Reading about war is not the same as experiencing it, Highness.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“And not just because meat-eating dinosaurs used as war-mounts were as rare as honest priests.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“No court has only harmless intrigues.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“After all, isn’t life always a matter of picking out the beautiful from the hideous?”
“If only all things were beautiful,” Pere said.
What then, dear friend? We strive to increase beauty in this world of ours. But we’ll never eliminate the ugly. Should we even hope to? You’re a master painter. Isn’t the figure meaningless without ground? Without ugliness for contrast, how can we perceive beauty? Isn’t it ugliness that gives beauty meaning?”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please."
—NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Never doubt the true threat’s not the monster, but the man.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“So it’s true what I hear, that victory makes strange bedfellows.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my lives, it’s that there’s no magic on this wretched little world of ours.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“You taught me the truth is always beautiful, no matter what it is. So I shouldn’t be afraid to face it.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“There’s nothing more dangerous than one who lives as if already dead.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Are you a lover of music, then, for all your crimes against her?”
A corner of Karyl’s mouth quirked up. “My piping’s scarcely the worst of my crimes.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“How can anything be more important than being friends?”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“To believe in power, Falk reminded himself, is to obey the man who has it. Anything else is anarchy.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“the best way to protect our own freedom of worship is to respect the same right in others.”
― Victor Milán, BattleTech Legends: Close Quarters

“Anyway, Falk regarded pointless cruelty as indulgence, a giving in to weakness.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“Did you all drink a potion of grasping the obvious this morning?”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords

“I’m not the lord of anyone anymore,” Karyl said. “Not even myself, perhaps.”
― Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Lords