If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission
Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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