Top 87 Evan Currie Quotes
#1. The things fought and ate, and when they ate enough, they produced more of them to fight and eat.
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#2. Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly
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#3. what you need is a strong corps of soldiers who serve, not because they must, but because they see honor in it.
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#4. We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.
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#5. 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.
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#6. He'd always wondered what he'd do when victory wasn't an option.
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#7. It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships?
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#11. Alright, chalk it up to magic supertech, and let's move on," Morgan said.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Why do I have a sudden urge to say I have a bad feeling about this?
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#16. 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.
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#17. Resistance was normal; however, it was generally futile as well. Being
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#18. 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.
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#19. The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. It was a foolish warrior who entrusted his weapons to the care of any man, save himself.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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,
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#28. Evolution wasn't a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial.
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#29. there were few things in the world more useless than an empty gun.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Too bad we don't always get what we want.
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#34. The more bragging you see on the media, the faster the war is turning against the braggarts. If
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#35. ... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.
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#36. Eric found that his choice of lifestyle never failed to offer him challenges to keep things interesting.
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#37. in his opinion. Masters himself was Ranger tabbed,
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#38. The Corps does more with less than anyone else on the planet, so they always get less to do more with.
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#39. 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.
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#40. To each his own," Eric said, "and as my Ma used to say, among them be it.
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#41. Stress is for when you have options, decisions to make.
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#43. 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.
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#44. There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective.
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#45. Insanity had its place, and that place was generally when all the sane options had been exhausted.
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#46. The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.
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#47. I'll not ask another generation to shoulder my burden.
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#48. More men had died because their commander wavered in his action, too afraid of making the wrong decision to make any,
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#49. 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.
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#50. Let's not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let's just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.
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#51. Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey.
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#52. 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
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#53. 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,
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#54. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.
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#55. It's quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own,
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#56. 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.
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#57. There are some things in this universe that are better left unknown. Some knowledge changes you. That knowledge exact a terrible toll!
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#58. 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,
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#59. Deliberate motions are mistake free motions, she told herself as she angled in toward the tether. Mistake free motions are speed. Speed is life.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Hell is a state of being, not a physical place.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. We're going to scrape her hull clear of those pests,
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#67. May as well have painted the walls black, she thought with some amusement.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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
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#70. 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.
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#71. The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.
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#72. Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge.
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#73. There were times when it was better to beg forgiveness than ask for identification. Reed
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#74. We go in dark, quiet, and at a crawl. We do not gravitate, transmit, or even fart in the general direction of that thing.
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#75. All right, roger that. Don't get dead." "That's high on my list of priorities.
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#76. Just because the world is falling apart around me is no excuse for a lack of professionalism.
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#77. be an accomplishment. She was just glad
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#78. Rookies always knew everything, which was what got them in trouble.
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#79. Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.
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#80. 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?
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#81. I'm either starting to like these people, or I'm going to shoot them,
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#82. Honestly, there probably wasn't a lot of difference between them.
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#83. on the armor shut behind him, cutting the master chief off for a moment as the suit booted up. From
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#84. For myself, I'll trust what I believe when my mind is calm, rational, and at peace.
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#85. She was striking, she was unforgettable, and she was terrifying. Those were words that applied just fine to the major.
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#86. 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.
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#87. If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know.
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