Evan Currie Quotes & Sayings

They didn't fear... They were fear! — Evan Currie

All right, roger that. Don't get dead." "That's high on my list of priorities. — Evan Currie

Captain," she growled, "you are the biggest pain in the ass I've ever worked with, and I'm a former Marine who joined the damned NYPD. Do you have any idea how many assholes you meet between those two groups?" Eric just looked back at her with his head cocked to one side, silent for a long moment before he chose to speak. "Lyss, until you've dealt with politicians and reporters, you don't know the meaning of the word. — Evan Currie

Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war. — Evan Currie

She was striking, she was unforgettable, and she was terrifying. Those were words that applied just fine to the major. — Evan Currie

He'd always wondered what he'd do when victory wasn't an option. — Evan Currie

on the armor shut behind him, cutting the master chief off for a moment as the suit booted up. From — Evan Currie

Rookies always knew everything, which was what got them in trouble. — Evan Currie

You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning. — Evan Currie

This is not what you call courage?" "The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival," he answered. "So ask me again when we're back topside. — Evan Currie

If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know. — Evan Currie

Alright, chalk it up to magic supertech, and let's move on," Morgan said. — Evan Currie

There are some things in this universe that are better left unknown. Some knowledge changes you. That knowledge exact a terrible toll! — Evan Currie

Sorilla wasn't going to pretend that she understood how political discourse worked, but her idea of negotiation took five minutes and generally involved violence or the threat of violence if it lasted much longer. — Evan Currie

If she survived, she'd learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though. — Evan Currie

She'd been desperate, more times than she cared to remember, and knew that it took a certain level of real oppression to bring out violence from desperation. — Evan Currie

Weston chuckled, shaking his head. "Sometimes I wonder who's really in charge of this heap." "You are." Steph grinned. "And none of the rest of us want to take your place if you get your dumb ass killed, so bear with us, all right? — Evan Currie

May as well have painted the walls black, she thought with some amusement. — Evan Currie

Evolution wasn't a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. — Evan Currie

That level of irony was such that it should not exist in a sane universe, but then he had never once believed the universe to be sane. — Evan Currie

He was a goddamn ranger. He dealt with scum and villains of all stripes, from the lowest street filth to the most dangerous psychos in a state where insanity was considered part of the way of life. — Evan Currie

It's quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own, — Evan Currie

It is always easier to curse in another language than your own! — Evan Currie

Why is it that the best terrorists, the worst enemies, and the most dangerous people in the world always seem to be schooled in the North American Confederation?" Weston asked. — Evan Currie

she knew that pacifism was the superior way of life. The problem was that it was a lot like communism in that it was only perfect on paper. Put it in the real world and things fell apart fast because it depended on the good will and behavior of people for it to work. And people are an ugly sort at the best of times. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man was kind. In the land of pacifists, it was the man who was willing to throw a punch. — Evan Currie

in his opinion. Masters himself was Ranger tabbed, — Evan Currie

To each his own," Eric said, "and as my Ma used to say, among them be it. — Evan Currie

Just because the world is falling apart around me is no excuse for a lack of professionalism. — Evan Currie

Communism worked great, up to maybe four dozen people. Libertarianism was a bit better and could handle thousands before it started to fall apart. Capitalism worked best on scale, but it too began to implode once you moved close to the billion mark or so and began to factor in multiple local governments. Socialism always sucked and tended to work like a glacier moving uphill, but it worked at pretty much every scale in the same way. It was reliable, even if you could only rely on it to piss you off and barely get anything done. — Evan Currie

what you need is a strong corps of soldiers who serve, not because they must, but because they see honor in it. — Evan Currie

Too bad we don't always get what we want. — Evan Currie

It was always better to have friends in low places, often far better, than having them in high places. At least when it came to Sorilla's line of work. Friends in high places tended to forget your name as soon as things got inconvenient, but she'd been consistently surprised by how loyal thugs and thieves could be in the right circumstances. They might literally stab you in the back, true, but they'd never just forget your name and ignore you in a crisis. Sorilla learned a long time past that she preferred an honest betrayal over a political one. — Evan Currie

The things fought and ate, and when they ate enough, they produced more of them to fight and eat. — Evan Currie

A soldier fought better when he knew that he was not only needed, but appreciated back home. There were few things as degrading to man than to come home to the people you served, only to be shunned and reviled by them. — Evan Currie

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance. — Evan Currie

For myself, I'll trust what I believe when my mind is calm, rational, and at peace. — Evan Currie

Very few things in the living universe are truely inert. So those with the eyes to see it, can precieve a very different realm from mundane world of man. — Evan Currie

Doors were both the bane and the blessing of existence. When they worked the way you wanted, when you wanted, you could ask no more of life. Most of the time, however, the evil blasted things were clearly possessed by the devil and intent on nothing but murdering you and your compatriots by stubbornly refusing to open, or close, or whatever it was you needed them to do. — Evan Currie

It had started with a fight that led to a breakup with her boyfriend, and now the whole damned solar system had apparently decided it was time to pay a visit to the Big Apple. — Evan Currie

Nero took another look at the screens, then turned around and headed up to the top command level, where Rael was trying to coordinate the entire mess they were currently mired in. Mostly, that just amounted to watching helplessly while their teams went about their jobs, but Nero supposed it was the thought that mattered. As — Evan Currie

Earth's orbital grid was a mish-mash of new and old systems, not even a tenth as deadly as it should be due to political considerations that, until very recently, seemed so incredibly important. — Evan Currie

Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly — Evan Currie

Eric found that his choice of lifestyle never failed to offer him challenges to keep things interesting. — Evan Currie

There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective. — Evan Currie

Sometime you end with your god but usually the numbers were the best path. Knowing when to draw the line was the hardest skill you can master. — Evan Currie

This was a fight the likes of which only existed in fiction, a war that was black and white and had no vagueness in where the line was drawn. — Evan Currie

Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey. — Evan Currie

Yeah, I think we've found what we were looking for." "You know what that is?" "Not a clue, but I bet you it's what we're looking for," Ramirez said firmly. "Does this look like anything less than the control room for a sci-fi superweapon to you?" "It's missing the evil overlord's throne, but other than that . . . ?" Pierce shrugged. "Sure, why not? — Evan Currie

To his mind, if you were going to kill a man you should have the guts and honor to at least accept a degree of risk yourself, no matter how small. Pushing a button and killing people by remote was no way to do things. It made soldiers lazy and careless. The world had politicians for that already. It didn't need to add soldiers to the list. — Evan Currie

The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag. — Evan Currie

If it weren't happening, he would have sworn that their reproduction speed alone violated the laws of thermodynamics - or at least common decency. The — Evan Currie

Eric stood alone, perched above the battleground as he looked out at the city beyond and tried to remember a time when he wasn't fighting. He knew that there had been such times. In fact, he knew intellectually that he had spent more time at peace in his life than he had at war. Why then, can I only remember the war? — Evan Currie

We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear. — Evan Currie

Freedom. That's the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace - peace in death and the peace of slavery." He snorted in amusement. "And I'm not certain about death. — Evan Currie

Insanity had its place, and that place was generally when all the sane options had been exhausted. — Evan Currie

The Corps does more with less than anyone else on the planet, so they always get less to do more with. — Evan Currie

The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot. — Evan Currie

Deliberate motions are mistake free motions, she told herself as she angled in toward the tether. Mistake free motions are speed. Speed is life. — Evan Currie

More men had died because their commander wavered in his action, too afraid of making the wrong decision to make any, — Evan Currie

That would be one lousy way to end the human race, locked in a nuclear war with the Block while a Drasin fleet came down on all their heads. Not that there are many good ways to end the human race, I suppose. — Evan Currie

Resistance was normal; however, it was generally futile as well. Being — Evan Currie

I'm either starting to like these people, or I'm going to shoot them, — Evan Currie

Stress is for when you have options, decisions to make. — Evan Currie

History was one of the things that Eric studied, both professionally and personally. He was an advocate of the expression that one must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it, though in his less optimistic moments he felt that if one did learn from history then you were doomed to watch others repeat it. Humanity, honestly, did very little that didn't disappoint him as a whole. — Evan Currie

there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun. — Evan Currie

We're going to scrape her hull clear of those pests, — Evan Currie

Genius and insanity were often separated only by the results. Unfortunately, sometimes it could take generations before you really saw the full scale of the results, and this was one of those times, — Evan Currie

It was a foolish warrior who entrusted his weapons to the care of any man, save himself. — Evan Currie

That was fine with Bermont. As a Canadian he'd always had the sneaking suspicion that Americans were crazy in more than just the good ways, and Texans were all that and a side of loco in his experience. — Evan Currie

Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships? — Evan Currie

We go in dark, quiet, and at a crawl. We do not gravitate, transmit, or even fart in the general direction of that thing. — Evan Currie

The chime wasn't the most pleasant sound in the world to wake up to, but Eric had awakened to far worse in the past. Gunfire was always a sure way to go from dead to the world to more alive than you'd ever been, assuming none of the bullets actually struck you. — Evan Currie

be an accomplishment. She was just glad — Evan Currie

... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option. — Evan Currie

The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival. — Evan Currie

Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge. — Evan Currie

All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work. — Evan Currie

he had always felt that the best units were those that had traditions of excellence that every member could aspire to. Few were those who both saw the birth of those traditions and who realized just what it was they were seeing. Something told him, deep inside, that he was now among those few. — Evan Currie

A soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job," Comdr. Stephen Michaels of the NAC military said by rote, remembering the many long nights of arguments and discussions that had brought this to his mind. "A soldier's first duty is simply to stand between his nation and any who might wish it harm. — Evan Currie

Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away, — Evan Currie

There were times when it was better to beg forgiveness than ask for identification. Reed — Evan Currie

Why do I have a sudden urge to say I have a bad feeling about this? — Evan Currie

Hell is a state of being, not a physical place. — Evan Currie

So how are we getting over to that?" Lyssa asked from where she was sitting on a cement embankment. Eric glanced across the waterline and nodded to the south. "There's a marina. We'll steal a boat." "Commandeer." "Excuse me?" "I'm a police officer, I don't steal boats," she told him simply. "I commandeer them." Eric snorted but nodded as he gestured. "Whatever you say, Officer. — Evan Currie

numbers. William — Evan Currie

Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss. — Evan Currie

Honestly, there probably wasn't a lot of difference between them. — Evan Currie

soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job, — Evan Currie

Usually, a country without a strong military would have had its politicians strung up by their entrails long before they managed to create quite this much red tape. — Evan Currie

We've got jobs to do, and we're going to get them done. Anyone who thinks otherwise can transfer to the Air Force when we get home. Until then, you're Marines. By God, act like it. — Evan Currie

I'll not ask another generation to shoulder my burden. — Evan Currie

He didn't know what his measly five birds would be able to do, but they'd be ready to do it if he had to personally launch them into space with a rubber band tied across the flight deck. — Evan Currie

Bombs were generally the tools of cowards or the desperate, those who either had no stomach for looking their opponents in the eyes or those who were so outclassed that honor had become a dangerous and entirely unaffordable affectation. — Evan Currie

The military sowed a spirit of brotherhood in its members, by necessity as well as plan, and that spirit was a vengeful one when its ire was aroused. — Evan Currie

The more bragging you see on the media, the faster the war is turning against the braggarts. If — Evan Currie

Let's not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let's just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do. — Evan Currie

CORPORAL BURKE GRINNED, no humor in his expression but plenty of satisfaction as he jammed the throttle of the M7 Abrams main battle tank, flattening the tiny import in front of him to a mashed pulp as he rumbled over it. — Evan Currie

CLEARVIEW, QUEENS — Evan Currie

Statistically, this wasn't merely unlikely. It was like being struck by a three-mile-wide meteor the day you hit the Powerball jackpot and walking away from the impact. Patently — Evan Currie