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#1

“‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

tags: honor, morality, virtue

157 likes

#2

“A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can't be indecisive.”
― David Drake, Some Golden Harbor

3 likes

#3

“I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.”
― Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer

68 likes

#4

“Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”
― Erwin Rommel

106 likes

#5

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ”
― Erwin Rommel, Rommel: In His Own Words

94 likes

#6

“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”
― Erwin Rommel

39 likes

#7

“Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?'
'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

57 likes

#8

“90% of everything is crap.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

134 likes

#9

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

69 likes

#10

“I blame it on Twilight. In real life, vampires only sparkle when they're on fire.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Vendetta

212 likes

#11

“Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha

127 likes

#12

“[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha

tags: fire, kill, last-resort

41 likes

#13

“The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but he might be willing to hold the bastard down while I kick him, and there’s something to be said for that.”
― J.A. Sutherland, The Little Ships

4 likes

#14

“some debts a man keeps in his own ledger book, sir, even if the other fellow doesn’t”
― J.A. Sutherland, The Little Ships

3 likes

#15

“You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
― Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

140 likes

#16

“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

140 likes

#17

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”
― S. M. Stirling

698 likes

#18

“We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all,”
― S.M. Stirling, Against the Tide of Years

3 likes

#19

“...you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.”
― H. Beam Piper, Fuzzy Sapiens

5 likes

#20

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

4800 likes

#21

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding

2128 likes

#22

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3147 likes

#23

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

1607 likes

#24

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

2878 likes

#25

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: escape, prison, prison-escape

988 likes

#26

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

798 likes

#27

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
― Alexandre Dumas

382 likes

#28

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32151 likes

#29

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: life

3613 likes

#30

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass

2108 likes

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