Edward W. Robertson Quotes & Sayings

Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't. — Edward W. Robertson

Have the Minister's soldiers been on the march?" "Probably. Given that they're soldiers, and marching is what soldiers do, if only to impress their captains. — Edward W. Robertson

The woman laughed, shoulders bouncing. I think the gods eat suffering. That's why they've put it everywhere you look: so anywhere they go, they'll always be fed. — Edward W. Robertson

Over the last few decades, that America of old had been stolen, snatched up by nanny state, soft-headed do-gooders on the left and wealth-obsessed sociopaths on the right who clearly believed their money meant they belonged to a superior species. They'd leveraged that money to make the laws reflect their first-class status. — Edward W. Robertson

They may look like dog vomit, but they ain't dumb. — Edward W. Robertson

There was something wrong with human emotions. The good ones left you as fast as a sneeze while the bad ones hung around like bronchitis. — Edward W. Robertson

Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies? — Edward W. Robertson

You think I'm daffy?"
"Don't be offended by a snap judgment. It's true of anyone who cares about squirrels. — Edward W. Robertson

If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee. — Edward W. Robertson

Men are the ones who keep trying to drag the gods down to earth. The gods don't give a damn what we do to ourselves. — Edward W. Robertson

If emotions were created for social creatures, did they cease to exist as soon as society disappeared? — Edward W. Robertson

The dinosaurs had all died, too, along with their dinosaur dreams. A world capable of such genocidal indifference didn't deserve its own existence. Walt wanted to watch it wither, to crumble into shit and dirt, fertilizer for a future that would one day crumble itself. — Edward W. Robertson

Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness. — Edward W. Robertson

Was sad to think how quickly things became lost. It was no wonder things were the way they were. Memories, people, your own self. You thought you'd always have them, that you'd be able to draw on them in times of need, but they slipped away like the days, gone before you knew it. — Edward W. Robertson

Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves. — Edward W. Robertson

Would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here? — Edward W. Robertson

This was the lesson of the lesser dog: all violence is risk. Even the smallest dog can win if it encourages the strong dogs to take all the risk for themselves. — Edward W. Robertson

Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it's disappointing. — Edward W. Robertson

We start off thinking the whole world is about us," Lucy said. "Once you learn how little it cares about you, that's when you stop taking things personal. — Edward W. Robertson

One last question," Sprite said. "Who are you? Special Forces? CIA? Xenobiologist?" "I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft. — Edward W. Robertson

She was tired of hearing about guns. It was all these people thought about. Carrying them. Using them. Fighting over them. Such stupid things. Anyone could use them. Anyone could pull a trigger from across a field. They rewarded cowardice. They made people think that violence was a quick and clean and easy thing. If the men on the boat had to kill with their hands, not one in ten would have the stomach for it. — Edward W. Robertson

The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay. — Edward W. Robertson

Dew. Their feet scuffed the dark sidewalks. Raymond had two moods now. Despair came with no warning, rogue waves of helplessness that sucked him out on a rippling tide. When it receded, he was left with a dry and — Edward W. Robertson

What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular, — Edward W. Robertson

He decided that brains were made of all the parts of the body that the other organs had rejected. — Edward W. Robertson

The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's — Edward W. Robertson

She ran up the hill toward the woods. The moon watched her every step, bathing her in silver suspicion. She ignored it for now. The trees swallowed her up, hiding her — Edward W. Robertson

Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention? — Edward W. Robertson

He hadn't told her to fuck off out of anger, but more out of the conviction that if you don't make a habit of standing up for yourself in the small moments, you'll never be able to do it when the big ones rolled around. — Edward W. Robertson

It's better to know nothing than to have to unlearn false wisdom. — Edward W. Robertson

I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts? — Edward W. Robertson

Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle. — Edward W. Robertson

It was, for the most part, your typical large city: a scab of nobles, wealthy merchants, and shipping tycoons crusted over a great messy wound of laborers and peons. — Edward W. Robertson

The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if you think you've found the incarnation of enlightenment, destroy that illusion on the spot. But the real world is real. Therefore, if you meet a bandit on the road, you should kill him. Anyone who seeks to make a bad world worse is a monster and an alien. — Edward W. Robertson

What form of speech is better than a question? A statement is certain. A question is fluid. To make progress, isn't it better to flow than to sit? — Edward W. Robertson