Una McCormack > Quotes

“Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.”
― Una McCormack

“Not all journeys seek an end. Some are their own purpose.”
― Una McCormack

“Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.”
― Una McCormack

“One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.”
― Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow

“We are our own worst enemy.”
― Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow

“Tell me what this means," Dax said. "I'm a busy woman with a ship to run and a crisis to handle and I've surrounded myself with smart, dedicated people for the sole purpose of interpreting unintelligible squiggles for me.”
― Una McCormack, Brinkmanship

“The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently.”
― Una McCormack

“No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.”
― Una McCormack

“Was that what Starfleet was, when it came down to it? One massive high-school science club? Why had no one ever mentioned this before?”
― Una McCormack, The Way to the Stars

“The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice?”
― Una McCormack

“You have to educate people first— you can't let them go out and vote for whatever they want! You don't know what you'd end up with!”
― Una McCormack, The Never Ending Sacrifice

“Everyone was poor, but it was out in the open, not tucked out of sight below bridges.”
― Una McCormack, The Never Ending Sacrifice

“It’s always going to be like this, isn’t it? she thought frantically. Whatever I want to do, it’ll never be what Mom wants. And eventually, I’ll start to forget what I wanted, and it’ll be like I was never there at all.”
― Una McCormack, The Way to the Stars

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
― Una McCormack, The Last Best Hope

“There are always two sides to a story.”
― Una McCormack

“Sylvia had found in the past that when she started to get close to people her own age, when she started to relax and speak her mind, they tended to drift away from her.”
― Una McCormack, The Way to the Stars

“If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.”
― Una McCormack

“We travel so far, and yet still, inevitably, we come back to the place where we started.”
― Una McCormack, The Autobiography of Mr. Spock: The Life of a Federation Legend

“ahead. The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently. All of this might cause problems for our fledgling democracy.”
― Una McCormack, Enigma Tales

“If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.”
― Una McCormack

“Why do I feel as if I'm about to hear a sentence passed?'

'Why do you feel as if you should?”
― Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow

“But it was all lies! If Tret and Colat and the rest are going to be the next generation of political leaders, why tell them lies? If they don't hear the truther, they'll think that nothing wrong happened! Tret thinks that nothing about Cardassia is wrong! He, his friends --they'll make the same mistakes over and over again. The Occupation will happen over and over again!”
― Una McCormack, The Never Ending Sacrifice

“A simple, magnificent equation: ingenuity plus hope equals change”
― Una McCormack, Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope

“Into the echo chamber of his own mind, where he was always able to find a justification for the most terrible actions.”
― Una McCormack, Enigma Tales

“There was a beauty to quiet collective activity that she would never take for granted.”
― Una McCormack, Wonderlands

“He loved people of intelligence, who served causes, and my understanding is this is why those relationships ended. They chose their missions or their work over him. But then this was true of Jim. The ship—the crew, the mission—came first.”
― Una McCormack, The Autobiography of Mr. Spock: The Life of a Federation Legend

“The heart of an empire is often beautiful to behold—and cruel to contemplate.”
― Una McCormack, The Never Ending Sacrifice

“(I have always enjoyed giving orders).”
― Una McCormack, The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway

“You are not responsible for the choices made by others,” she had said. “To attribute to oneself that power is to assume that you have the right to compel others. And that is to deceive yourself.”
― Una McCormack, The Last Best Hope

“There were certain truths one might call self-evident—that a red flashing light meant danger, that punishment had very little to do with crime, that a knock on the door in the middle of the night is always feared within.”
― Una McCormack, Cardassia and Andor