Joseph R. Lallo Quotes & Sayings

the future is not so fragile as to be broken by a simple decision. The future is made of decisions. — Joseph R. Lallo

The journey is spectacularly important. The journey is how you spend your life. The destination is practically inconsequential compared to the journey. The destination determines where a man arrives. The journey determines what sort of man arrives. It shapes you, alters you. — Joseph R. Lallo

As entertaining as it would be to see you run in a screaming conflagration from my kitchen after falling face-first into the fire, I am in no mood to clean it up. — Joseph R. Lallo

Warriors were more interested in learning what great deeds she had done before arriving. — Joseph R. Lallo

Sorry to burst your bubble, lass, but the truth is important. Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. — Joseph R. Lallo

when they first met. It was just past the end of the third month of training, the midpoint, before they were interrupted again. Spring should have come, but this far north, and in the Low Lands in particular, the only indication of this was a sprinkle of rain mixing with the snow occasionally. Such a storm was passing through toward the end of the daily training session in the tower when a commotion could be heard in the main room down stairs. The sound alone was enough to put Myn on guard. — Joseph R. Lallo

Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight. — Joseph R. Lallo

It was one lesson that she could not bring herself to learn. If someone was going to tell a lie, they would tell it with a smile. — Joseph R. Lallo

to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom. — Joseph R. Lallo

It is the place of a holy man not to burden others with his troubles, but to relieve others of their burden, — Joseph R. Lallo

Myranda chooses to study under your tutelage, — Joseph R. Lallo

You can keep trying. Try and fail, try and fail. Maybe many times, but if you continue to try while the others do not, then you will win. So never stop trying. — Joseph R. Lallo

Nondisclosure agreements and exclusivity agreements. Think like a corporation, lady. They've proven much better at enslaving the masses and pushing home their agenda than all of the terrorists in the history the human race put together. — Joseph R. Lallo

When a job needs to be done, you can't always afford to find the perfect person to do it. Sometimes you have to make do with what you've got." "Times — Joseph R. Lallo

Grief is like any other kind of pain. No matter how intense or how constant it is, time takes the edge from it. It may not fade, but it loses its sharpness. It becomes the new normal, and eventually steps aside and makes room in the mind for other things. — Joseph R. Lallo

People like Lain have lived in the dark so long, when they see light, they tend to close their eyes. — Joseph R. Lallo

There will be many things bigger and stronger, so you cannot let the fear stop you, or you will never start. You take the things fear gives you and refuse to give the things it tries to take away. — Joseph R. Lallo

Canteen and took a long swig. The dragon smacked its tongue several times, making it clear that it too needed — Joseph R. Lallo

You reap what you sow in this world. — Joseph R. Lallo

To say I was jealous would be to suggest that you did not deserve all that you have. — Joseph R. Lallo

The value of the sword did not concern her--at least, not at this moment. Regardless of the price it might fetch in the future, at the moment it represented a far greater find. It was the means to extract the only thing that mattered to her right now, the food that would give her the strength to leave this frozen wasteland. It represented life itself. — Joseph R. Lallo

Soaring through the icy sky on the back of a dragon would not have been her first choice as a place to meditate, but it would do. — Joseph R. Lallo

Well, it just goes to show you," the inventor said as he flipped through the pages of notes and ideas, "It is easy to think outside the box when you aren't smart enough to know where the box is. — Joseph R. Lallo

Well what are you looking at me for? If this is a democratic process, I've been outvoted," he said in exasperation. "This is why democracy doesn't work. The crazy people always outnumber the sane people. — Joseph R. Lallo

The problem with engineers today is that they don't think on paper. — Joseph R. Lallo

Honestly. The spirits could be a bit more straightforward in their messages. If they truly wanted us to know what they were saying, they would say it more clearly. — Joseph R. Lallo

Honestly, people always talk about 'normal' as though it is something to aspire to, but that's a load of crap. Normal isn't an achievement, it's a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting. — Joseph R. Lallo

I can either live a life of hate and solitude, or I can do what I feel is right and hope for the same in return. — Joseph R. Lallo

The hand has programmable fingerprints, a vibration motor, data interface capabilities-" "Wait. A vibration motor in your hand? Why?" "I'm a man, and I'm alone on the planet. Figure it out. — Joseph R. Lallo

She leaned into the soft seat and pondered why people were so willing to ignore their own, and so eager to acknowledge those who were better off. — Joseph R. Lallo

all of my bases covered. You assume responsibility for violations of local, regional, global, intrasystem, interstellar, intergalactic and interdimensional law, civil, religious, or military. I'm also not responsible for loss of life and limb, property damage, domestic disputes, engineered biological human dieback, nuclear fallout, violations of causality, cascading sub-quantum misalignment, hastening of cosmic heat death, rampant AI, accelerated climate change, geomagnetic reversal, vacuum metastability events, total existence failure, gray goo scenario, red goo scenario--that's a nasty one--tectonic inversion-- — Joseph R. Lallo

blood from the gash had seeped through her shirt and the blanket, pooling on the floor. Looking at it intensified the dizziness that its loss had caused. With the most pressing of her concerns attended to, Myranda set her mind to the task of escaping. She assessed the situation. Of course, her pack was gone. A pull on the door revealed it to be solidly secured from the outside. The windows were all small and near to the high ceiling. There would be no escape through any of those. The sole window large enough to allow her to escape was the shattered stained glass window behind the pulpit, but it was even further out of her reach. She had to try the door — Joseph R. Lallo

Art is supposed to tell a story. It is supposed to be a piece of the soul that created it. Art is supposed to be alive, vibrant. It is supposed to speak directly to the spirit. To say things words alone could never say. Art is the essence of being. — Joseph R. Lallo

It is talk such as that which will cost us victory, — Joseph R. Lallo

Right on cue, the ground came whipping up beneath them. No longer simply held aloft by anti-gravity units, the vehicle's futuristic replacements for wheels could be put to work. Bigger, beefier versions of the same things that made his delivery bike work, the repulsors used the interplay between two tangible energy fields to create a synchronized wave pattern capable of instituting temporary charge differences between the vehicle and road surface for the purposes of facilitating the attraction and repulsion necessary to maintain an approximately constant distance. In other words, he had traction now. — Joseph R. Lallo

If one does not believe entirely in one's choices, then one has already failed. — Joseph R. Lallo

A nightmare is the best kind of dream. The only one that brings happiness when it ends. — Joseph R. Lallo