Doug Dandridge > Quotes

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. José Maria de Eça de Queiroz”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.   George S. Patton”
― Doug Dandridge, Counter Strike

“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. Robert A Heinlein.”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher”
― Doug Dandridge, Counter Strike

“If you can’t impress them with your ability, dazzle them with your bullshit. ”
― Doug Dandridge, Death From Above

“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.  Julius Caesar”
― Doug Dandridge, The Rising Storm

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.  George Orwell.”
― Doug Dandridge, The Rising Storm

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.  Isaac Asimov”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #2

“Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. Curtis LeMay”
― Doug Dandridge, Counter Strike

“Humans had been fighting among themselves for thousands of years and had evolved the principles that led to victory. Or at least to not being an easy victim. One of the principles was to assume if you’d thought of something, the enemy might have as well. If they hadn’t, and you wasted a little bit of effort, no harm done. If they had, and you didn’t make the effort, you could get burned. Being burned in a military situation often led to death.”
― Doug Dandridge, When Eagles Dare

“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.  He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.  He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man” - with his mouth.   Mark Twain”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton”
― Doug Dandridge, All Quiet on the Second Front?

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.  Mark Twain.”
― Doug Dandridge, The Long Fall

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.  They went out and happened to things.  Leonardo da Vinci”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.  Poul Anderson.”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #2

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare”
― Doug Dandridge, Search & Destroy

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.  Theodore Roosevelt.”
― Doug Dandridge, The Long Fall

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.  The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.   John Stewart Mill”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #2

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck.”
― Doug Dandridge, Soldiers

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin   Sean”
― Doug Dandridge, Day of Infamy

“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.  Bertrand Russell”
― Doug Dandridge, Exodus: Empires at War #1

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.”
― Doug Dandridge, The Rising Storm

“Amateurs went into battle with faith that the equipment they checked out the day before would be ready. Professionals constantly checked their equipment. They were obsessive compulsive with their checking. It made sense. If a weapon failed when most needed, they were dead.”
― Doug Dandridge, When Eagles Dare