Craig A. Falconer > Quotes

“They have a narrative they want to get across,” Emma said. “If the facts don’t fit, the facts change.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Earth being struck by an extinction-level asteroid or something of that nature.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“proles opened”
― Craig A. Falconer, Sycamore

“Wars and disasters are a struggling president’s best friends,”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Billy had done similar”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“But maybe if I was lying to you, you wouldn’t see through it because you trust me so much. It wouldn’t even matter if the whole world told you I was lying; until you saw the lie for yourself, you wouldn’t believe it.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“EMERGENCY”
― Craig A. Falconer, Terradox Quadrilogy: The Complete Box Set

“Right and wrong, truth and lies… things like that come and go, but secrets make the world go round.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“Forget what the onlookers think, for a man’s thoughts die with him. Remember instead that the children of tomorrow will view today with the clarity of hindsight. All lies will be revealed and all truths will emerge. So jettison your preoccupations with the respect of your peers in favour of a promise to do right by generations”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Contact Trilogy: Complete Box Set #1-3

“Plato said it best: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“unborn. The present has passed before we can touch it, but the future is ours to shape. Serve posterity, not power, and hold legacy before ego.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Contact Trilogy: Complete Box Set #1-3

“A government — or an administration, or whatever — isn’t really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for their own interests and pulling in opposite directions at the same time. It’s like an organism at war with itself.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“Cole nodded curtly, wasting no time on platitudes. “I wish to join Dan in publicly calling for international unity at this important time, and I’d like to both applaud and thank him for sharing the official ELF position on that issue. Division does no one any favours, and William Godfrey’s exclusion policy is a crime against humanity which could lead to catastrophic armed conflict if his irresponsible politicking doesn’t end. I hereby call on the likes of Slater, Hearst, and any other GCC national leaders who can find a backbone somewhere to finally call a spade a spade and to call William Godfrey out as the reckless lunatic he is. If the GCC is to continue to exist, its members quite simply must oust the man who is driving them over a cliff because he’s too busy admiring his own reflection in the rear-view mirror to watch the road ahead.”
― Craig A. Falconer, The Final Call

“Part 1 TIME BOMB “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” Oscar Wilde”
― Craig A. Falconer, The Final Call

“anyone who didn’t want you to be able to defend yourself was not someone with your best interests at heart.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“Forget what the onlookers think, for a man’s thoughts die with him. Remember instead that the children of tomorrow will view today with the clarity of hindsight. All lies will be revealed and all truths will emerge. So jettison your preoccupations with the respect of your peers in favour of a promise to do right by generations unborn. The present has passed before we can touch it, but the future is ours to shape. Serve posterity, not power, and hold legacy before ego.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Second Contact

“Reader's note: Not Alone was written, edited and produced in Scotland. As such, some spellings will differ from those found in the United States. Examples of British English include using colour rather than color, organise rather than organize, and centre rather then center. An exception to this rule is the use of proper nouns, which retain their American spelling where applicable.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“accident”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“The present has passed before we can touch it, but the future is ours to shape. Serve”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“We somehow felt safe sharing every aspect of our lives, whether through public posts or private messages, with a corporate entity that was: a) legally bound by prior legislation to pass our data onto whichever government agencies desired it, and: b) legally bound by a duty to its stockholders to share our data with advertising agencies and partners. We implicitly agreed to this by using their service and explicitly agreed by ticking boxes beside user agreements we didn’t have time to read.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Sycamore

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy FRIDAY”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Part 4 LOLO “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“What happens when we as a species start defining our existence in contrast to something else rather than each other?”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“All human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“his heel, along with some footage of Emma and Dan venturing bravely beyond it — he looked down at Trey and very clearly mouthed “not yet”. Because the second presentation, if”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Contact Trilogy: Complete Box Set #1-3

“Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“People don’t care about the truth these days, they care about the story.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Ultimate Collection (Complete Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-10)

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Contact Trilogy: Complete Box Set #1-3