Possible "pull quotes" for upcoming Superiors books

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by JCD

Rocket,

You know you've exceeded the word count for both Jordi and Janus just in pull quotes, don't you?

LOL Only Jordi and Janus?

It's a little like fighting the Death Star -- throw enough X-Wings into the project and sooner or later something will emerge triumphant from the wreckage.

[Rocket Man]

Oannes
"Under water, man becomes an archangel."
--Jacques-Yves Cousteau

[robkelk]

(spotted in GenChat, copied to a thread that won't disappear in six months, assigned to an appropriate Superior)

Malphas

People are okay, taken two or three at a time. More than that and they start to choose up sides and wear armbands.
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings

[Rocket Man]

Novalis
"Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still."
--T.S. Eliot, 'Ash Wednesday.'

[Rocket Man]

Malphas

"Just see how virtue repays you,
You turn and someone betrays you,
Betray him first,
And the game's reversed!"

--Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton, "The Riddle," from The Scarlet Pimpernel

[robkelk]

Jean

"In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world... The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation."
- ADM Hyman G. Rickover


Novalis

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."
– Audrey Hepburn

[Rocket Man]

Kronos

"Corruption of the best becomes the worst."
--Latin proverb

[robkelk]

(Raiding the thread "your favorite military quotes" in GenChat for good quotes, because threads in GenChat don't stick around forever. Needless to say, most of these are related to war, so I'll start with the obvious Superior.)


Baal

"If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place."
- William T. Sherman, letter from Vicksburg, 31 January 1864

"I regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash — and it may be well that we become so hardened."
- William T. Sherman, letter to his wife, July 1864

"I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!"
- William T. Sherman, address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy, 1879

"Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle."
- Psalm 144:1

"We are outnumbered, there is only one thing to do. We must attack!"
- Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Taranto, 1940

"Mankind has had ten thousand years experience in war and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well."
- T.E. Lawrence

"If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly."
- Nick Lappos (chief R&D pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft)

"Wars begin when you will them but do not end when you please"
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."
- Sgt. Zim, Starship Troopers

"Stop quoting laws to us. We carry swords."
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill

"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
- attributed to Erwin Rommel


"It is said that when Alexander was on campaign he ate the food of a common soldier. I've always thought that was a bit hard on the poor soldier."
- Hans Rancke-Madsen, March 7, 2011
(this one's better for Haagenti, but he's got his writeup already)


Novalis

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
- Robert E Lee

" 'Victory after all I suppose!' [Bilbo] said, feeling his aching head. 'Well it seems a very gloomy business.' "
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The holm-oak, scarred and blasted by the wind’s chill breath,
Break its own branches off, condemns itself to death.
When brother fights with brother, civil war will start,
Bring pain and grief to all and tear the land apart.

- Grimmelhausen



Archangel of Music

"Madam, I know only two tunes. One is 'God Save the King,' the other isn't."
- attributed to the Duke of Wellington

[robkelk]

Baal

"War is not a river, or a lake, but an ocean of all that is evil."
- Gustav II Adolf

[robkelk]

Novalis (Dark and/or Backwards)

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker