“The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.”
―
Evan C. Currie,
Odyssey One
“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.” ― Evan C. Currie, Heirs of Empire
“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 C. Currie, Into the Black
“We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“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 C. Currie, By Other Means
“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 C. Currie, King of Thieves
“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 C. Currie, Homeworld
“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 C. Currie, Odyssey One
“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 C. Currie, Homeworld
“Hannah drew up the ice magic she had been born to wield,” ― Evan Currie, Seal Team 13: Liberation
“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 C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“Hell is a state of being, not a physical place.” ― Evan C. Currie, On Silver Wings
“All right, who prayed for the miracle?” he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. “You’re all promoted. Nice work.” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“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 C. Currie, Out of the Black
“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!” ― Evan c. currie, Out of the Black
“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.” ― Evan C. Currie, Heirs of Empire
“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 C. Currie, Into the Black
“We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“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 C. Currie, By Other Means
“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 C. Currie, King of Thieves
“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 C. Currie, Homeworld
“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 C. Currie, Odyssey One
“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 C. Currie, Homeworld
“Hannah drew up the ice magic she had been born to wield,” ― Evan Currie, Seal Team 13: Liberation
“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 C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“Hell is a state of being, not a physical place.” ― Evan C. Currie, On Silver Wings
“All right, who prayed for the miracle?” he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. “You’re all promoted. Nice work.” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“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 C. Currie, Out of the Black
“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,” ― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter
“... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.” ― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One
“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!” ― Evan c. currie, Out of the Black
