Ian Douglas > Quotes

“An old, old saying held that religion was for those who feared Hell, while spirituality was for those who’d been there.”
― Ian Douglas, Star Corps

“We humans are a technic species. Our technology, the pace of our technological advance, is a part of us, a part of everything we do.”
― Ian Douglas, Center of Gravity

“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And it is our own.” The quote was from Eddington’s Space, Time, and Gravitation, first published in 1920.”
― Ian Douglas, Deep Space

“Scientists! What do they know?” “Quite a lot, actually, Mr. President. You can’t simply dismiss inconvenient facts.”
― Ian Douglas, Stargods

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Ian Douglas, Center of Gravity

“he didn’t like it one bit.”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Hostiles: An Explosive Military Sci-Fi Adventure – Solar Warden Book Two Battles Nazis in Space and a Reptilian Conspiracy

“This far from home, all they had was each other.”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Hostiles: An Explosive Military Sci-Fi Adventure – Solar Warden Book Two Battles Nazis in Space and a Reptilian Conspiracy

“it left him uneasy to think that the lives of people, his people, depended on decisions made by men who cared more about covering their asses than they did about the lives of men and women farther down the chain of command.”
― Ian Douglas, Semper Mars

“just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you!”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Secrets

“At ease, Marine,” Garroway said. “You men did a hell of a job.”
― Ian Douglas, Star Marines

“Excuses are like assholes, Marine. Everyone has one, and they all stink.”
― Ian Douglas, Battlespace

“Mark Hunter. I kill people and break things for a living. Or maybe it’s ‘kill things and break people.’ I always get that part confused.”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Secrets

“the PanTerran people might not be able to pick up”
― Ian Douglas, Star Corps

“They’ve got the gods-given right to believe what the hell they want. Just so they return the favor.”
― Ian Douglas, Bloodstar

“But right now the alien ship was leaving Earth like the proverbial bat out of hell, boosting at 50,000 Gs,”
― Ian Douglas, Deep Time

“Marines did not salute uncovered indoors.”
― Ian Douglas, Semper Mars

“REMFs,”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Secrets

“Major DuBoise,” Ramsey said. “Scrape that mountainside clean!”
― Ian Douglas, Star Corps

“Each year, somehow, seemed a bit hotter, a bit stormier, than the last.”
― Ian Douglas, Luna Marine

“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And it is our own.”
― Ian Douglas, Deep Space

“Not after PanTerra’s publicity department is done with you,” she told him.”
― Ian Douglas, Battlespace

“Let me hear your war cry!” “ARRRR!”
― Ian Douglas, Alien Secrets

“the most dangerous weapon in combat was a Marine.”
― Ian Douglas, Galactic Corps

“Why are so many people so committed to a set of beliefs that they refuse even to consider the possibility that they’re wrong?”
― Ian Douglas, Stargods

“This is too weird for the Marines,” she said aloud.”
― Ian Douglas, Luna Marine

“You’re too adorable. We’ll want to keep some of you around as pets.”
― Ian Douglas, Stargods

“Precisely. People in government have a vested interest in maintaining their hold on power.”
― Ian Douglas, Stargods

“The Qesh did not normally back away from a fight.”
― Ian Douglas, Bloodstar

“Carlyle’s electric whales.”
― Ian Douglas, Abyss Deep

“Marines holds that while there are no worse enemies, there are no better friends.”
― Ian Douglas, Abyss Deep