Michael Stephen Fuchs > Quotes

“hope is not a strategy.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Nemesis

“Alpha’s response to the armed conflict was nearly inevitable, and Henno knew it as the old rule for winning pub brawls: don’t bluff, don’t threaten, definitely don’t shove or escalate. But when you know it’s going to kick off, you just turn the knob all the way to the right – the pint glass to the face, the knee to the groin, the headbutt that crushes the nose. Maximum violence, instantly.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, ARISEN: Omnibus Two

“Well, since alcohol is anti-microbial, that is to say, deadly to germs, humans who drank that instead of water would die at a much lower rate from waterborne pathogens – which, prior to industrial water treatment and purification, were ubiquitous. And so the booze hounds would proliferate, out-surviving and out-reproducing the water-drinkers. Alcoholism may actually be an adaptation. Yes, that would mean the bugs on this planet have bred an entire race of booze hounds. Ain’t evolution a bitch?”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Okay, not a terrible point,” Noise said. “But it’s also a great example – the point that makes my point. We don’t get to choose what happens to us. But we always get to choose how to feel about it. And why on earth would you ever choose to feel anything but good?” Bird snorted. “Mate, it can’t be that easy – not for you, not for anyone. Who could feel good about this?” Noise nodded. “Look. In any situation, there are always many aspects to it, many facets that one can attend to. An infinite number, perhaps. And it is very rare that all of them are completely negative. Can we agree on that?” Bird didn’t respond. “And the thing is this: you get to choose. Which aspects to regard. The good or the bad ones. And that choice will define you. It will certainly define how you feel.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Endgame

“Hey! I’m still fuckin’ this monkey. She’s just here to take pictures.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Tough. Deal with it. Adapt and overcome.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Exodus

“Defeat is never fatal. Victory is never final. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston Churchill”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“Churchill quote – “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates. Do that and you’ll be fine.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“But it’s because our time is limited that life is so precious, so beautiful. And what matters is what we do in the time we’ve got.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Three Parts Dead

“O-karada o daiji ni,” Ali said quietly, kissing Pope on the cheek as she passed him by. A beautiful Japanese phrase, it meant “take care of yourself.” But, literally translated, it was “your body is precious.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs

“Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them. Some tragedies couldn’t be made okay, not by words, and not by anything else either.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Genesis

“Which was a reminder that you didn’t want faith getting in the way of tactical considerations. But, at a certain point, faith, however groundless, however forlorn, can be all you’ve got left.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Fortress Britain

“What if?” Fick asked. “What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“It’s just more mushroom farming, ain’t it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Exodus

“Because he knew it was always what you chose to do right now that mattered. And you always had a choice.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Empire of the Dead

“You two are more fucked up than a one-legged cat trying to bury shit in a frozen pond.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Flood

“Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding onto.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Arisen, Omnibus One

“Come, eat your food with joy and drink your wine with a glad heart … enjoy life with the woman you love, through all the fleeting life which God has given you in this world…”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Fortress Britain

“there was a word for a triumph over impossible odds: a miracle.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Three Parts Dead

“God must have leaned down out of heaven and kissed her on the forehead at birth.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Nobody rides for free, motherfuckers!”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Exodus

“Two is one; one is none.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Maximum Violence

“And like the skydiver with the faulty chute, he had the entire rest of his life to figure this out and get good at it.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Flood

“We all drift on the same raft. There is only one question. What sort of shipwrecked man shall I be?”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Arisen, Omnibus One

“Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Genesis

“And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“Sweet F-A.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, The Horizon

“Despair was the unforgivable sin. And he simply couldn’t go out that way – he couldn’t give up. If he was out of faith, he’d just have to push through it, and carry on. He’d fake it, if he had to.”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Exodus