A.G. Howard Quotes
Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon
Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff.""Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?""No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.
Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is "think."I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon
Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon
No! Wait! I've got a better idea...""Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.""And your point is...""Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.
You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.""It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.
Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your own 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.
Ow. Stop that. It hurts my brain.Isn't your brain distributed through your entire body?See why I want you to stop with the doublethink?-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon
Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?
There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.
Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.''But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?
Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered.
In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
An old childhood playmate once told me ‘second guessing every step prevents any forward momentum. Trust yourself. Forgive yourself. And move on.
He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.
Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.
How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.
Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening
It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.
Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.
Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.
DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.
I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.
We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.
Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.
Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.
Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.
Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
We have regiments as innumerable as the sands...And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.