Jasper T. Scott > Quotes

“how does religion weigh us down?” “If you believe in an afterlife where you will live forever in paradise, why bother going to so much trouble to make a paradise here and live forever in it now? That’s a lot of work for nothing.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Revenge

“That is the difference between faith and reason. For every question that reason answers, it raises another. The only way to permanently answer it is to become God and know everything, and I don’t think He wants to share His throne with all of us.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Armageddon

“Sobriety made an unwelcome entrance, but she was a necessary muse.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Excelsior

“a memory from his youth. A simpler time. Before guilt, grief, and regret were tied around his neck like millstones.”
― Jasper T. Scott, No Way Home: A Lost Starship Sci-Fi Adventure: (A Standalone Novel)

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to govern its behavior or else it will fall apart.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space Universe

“situation much worse”
― Jasper T. Scott, Aliens Robots and The Apocalypse

“Fear is wasteful,”
― Jasper T. Scott, Revenge

“To those who dare, And to those who dream. To everyone who’s stronger than they seem. “Believe in me / I know you’ve waited for so long / Believe in me / Sometimes the weak become the strong” —STAIND, Believe”
― Jasper T. Scott, The Invisible War

“Astralis might argue otherwise.” “Without me, morality is strictly defined in terms of what is beneficial for the group and for the individual. In this model of morality, enslaving those you consider to be outside of your group could be considered morally right because their enslavement is advantageous to you and your survival.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space Universe

“Fear is wasteful, Des. What we need right now is hope.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space: The Complete Series #1-6

“Some people embraced lies so eagerly that they would never believe the truth.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space: The Complete Series #1-6

“I’ve never been much of a believer in higher powers. But show me a parent who doesn’t secretly whisper a prayer when their kids are in trouble, and I’ll show you a liar.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Arrival

“To those who dare, And to those who dream. To everyone who’s stronger than they seem. —Jasper Scott “Believe in me / I know you’ve waited for so long / Believe in me / Sometimes the weak become the strong.” —STAIND, Believe”
― Jasper T. Scott, Aliens Robots and The Apocalypse

“muttered. “You can’t activate the cloaking shield and an energy shield at the same time. You can have the element of surprise”
― Jasper T. Scott, Worlds Collide

“The only way to win a game that can’t be won is to stop playing.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Origin

“Lucien had this unrealistic, romantic idea about life and marriage, that it should all be one long honeymoon, with them spending every waking minute together, and to the netherworld with mundane concerns like paying for a mortgage or expensive private schools.”
― Jasper T. Scott, The Enemy Within

“Finally, Tyra broke the silence. “Well, it’s pretty clear what happened to the spiders,” she said. “And equally clear what we’ll find if we go to that star system.” No”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space Universe

“You can eat caviar with the sinners, or starve to death with the saints.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space

“and sunken. Atton shook his head and screamed once more. “He’s a Gor! Mom, he’s a Gor!” But she couldn’t hear, and she didn’t appear to notice Hoff’s transformation. Atton’s eyelids grew heavy and the scene faded to black, but he went on screaming, “He’s a Gor! Hoff’s a Gor!” A loud hiss reached Atton’s ears and a gust of frigid air surrounded him. He opened his eyes and saw none other than Admiral Hoff Heston glaring at him, his eyes once again their usual gray. Atton fell out of the stasis tube, and Hoff held out a hand to help him up. Atton scuttled away, shaking his head vehemently. “You’re a Gor! Stay away from me!” Hoff smiled. “I thought the Gors were your friends?” “Not you!” “That’s a fine way to greet your rescuer. You’re delirious. Get”
― Jasper T. Scott, Origin

“sometimes weakness was a guise, especially if it were worn too conspicuously. Looking defenseless and being defenseless were two very different things”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space

“You understand my point, though. I’ve always been the kid getting in trouble at school because I wasn’t the fastest learner, or I was reprimanded in the Corps because some asshole ranked a fraction above me knew I was better suited for their job, and it scared them. They’re all the same,” he said.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Colony

“live your life with good intentions if that is important to you, but the consequences and therefore the rightness and wrongness of your actions are fundamentally unknowable.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Mrythdom: Game of Time

“Gavin pushed through the clusters of dazed, green-looking diners into the corridor outside the restaurant.”
― Jasper T. Scott, No Way Home: A Lost Starship Sci-Fi Adventure: (A Standalone Novel)

“Imagine what the power to stall or reverse cellular decay could do for humanity? No one with sufficient means need ever die. You could be fleet commander forever.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Escape

“went into some technical details about how liquids aren’t compressible so the water would push back and prevent blood from pooling.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Excelsior

“The best way to keep people happy in a prison is to show them that life outside of it is worse.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Occupied Earth

“Time passed like molasses dripping through a funnel.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Occupied Earth

“Imagined rewards from imaginary deities are an extension of evolution, a by-product. Our imaginations serve our survival very well, but that doesn’t mean that they always do. Evolution isn’t a straight path. How does homosexual behavior suit the survival of the species? It doesn’t, and yet we’ve found plenty of genes that promote homosexuality”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space Universe

“He had nightmares like that. But then he’d wake up and realize that the dream had been a good one and it was reality which was the nightmare.”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space

“You can’t have it both ways. We can’t be free and have a god who knows the future”
― Jasper T. Scott, Dark Space Universe