Quotes from Graham McNeill

You may think your tribute is paid in secret in the recesses of your heart, but it will out. We are a curious species when it comes to worship. The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. - Kyril Sindermann

She is irrelevant. Irrelevant? No one is irrelevant. There's truth in that. But some are less relevant than others.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards solitude. - Tubal Kain

The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another. - Ahzek Ahriman

When the future remains so unclear, why does the past so often intrude? Because it is all that is definite.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

If there is one thing I have come to know in my long years of study, it is that there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the positioning of the universe's chess pieces. Your coming here was no accident. I was meant to train you. I have seen it.

How bright we all bur. No wonder we were not made to last.

He once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.

No man lives forever and even as memory fades, so too will any remembrance of him.

Judgement of my humours is not always my strongest attribute.' 'You spoke your mind, I spoke mine. No more needs to be said.

Such arrogant certainty,' said the serpent with relish. 'How pleasing that is to me. All the very worst sins are accomplished with such certainty: gluttony, wrath, lust… pride. No force in existence can compete with mortals in the grip of certainty.

and though he appeared outwardly clam

Each man is a spark in the darkness. Would that we all burn as bright.

The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tiniest action might be said to have been the origin of any great event.

A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought,' said Vitali, reciting the ancient words of wisdom as though they were his own. 'As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour.

It gives me no pleasure to do this,' said Sharrowkyn. 'You are nothing to me, simply a rabid dog that needs to be put down.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.' – the philosopharch Nietzsche, circa M2

No querida, la ignorancia y el miedo crean a los dioses, el entusiasmo y el engaño los adornan, y la debilidad humana rinde les rinde culto.

Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan.

What better mirror is there than the face of an old friend? Only those we love have the power to show us our true selves.

You know as well as I that this doesn't end with kill teams or assassins or a pre-emptive strike thousands of light years from Terra. It ends with me looking into my father's eyes, my hands around His neck, and showing Him everything he loves burned to ash by His lies.

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.