Quotes from Michael Stephen Fuchs

What if?" Fick asked. "What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

It's just more mushroom farming, ain't it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face – do something useful with a stupid look on your face!

Boy? Who the fuck are you calling boy? I've got a bucketful of balls, a yard of dick, and enough hair on my ass to weave ten Navajo blankets. I will take you to fucking man school.

And in zombie warfare, air superiority is about as useful as nuts on a nun.

The Seahawk did exactly that, nose dropping and accelerating away from the carrier like a really badass bat out of some especially unpleasant hell.

Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.

Pilots sometimes called this "the 200th hour" – when you knew just enough, and were confident enough, to make your first really big fuck-up.

Because Rule #11 of a gunfight was: "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose." Al-Sîf

didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter was looking like a strong

The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.

The typical Spetsnaz soldier is a skeptic, a cynic, and a pessimist. He believes in the depravity of human nature, and knows – from his own experience – that, in extreme conditions, man becomes a beast. He does not believe in justice, goodness, or humanity. He exists in a state of complete freedom – in which he fears nobody, trusts no one at all, and would not ask anyone for anything. Especially mercy.

The Crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned.

The first rule of gunfights was: "Bring a gun." But the second was: "Bring all of your friends who have guns.

was tugging now. But, while

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." – Bertrand Russell "He that dies this year is quit for the next." – Wm. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part

While you are alive, conquer death, and you shall have no regrets in the end.' Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

Maybe they wanted a good look at what they were about to blow into jingle-bus bolognese. Juice

Those were the words of a British army officer, and member of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, before walking out from his tent and into a blizzard. Knowing his gangrene and frostbite were hurting their chances of survival, he chose certain death, to relieve his friends of the burden of caring for him.

never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then, if he doesn't like it, you're a mile away. And you have his goddamned shoes.

no matter what happened to him now, whatever became of what was left of humanity… nothing could take away his experiences of these last remarkable few weeks. Nothing could reverse, not really, the striking ways in which Wesley had grown. And nothing could erase the contributions he'd been able to make to the cause – finally, fumblingly, through sheer trial-and-error and dogged persistence. He'd been part of a great undertaking. And part of a team.

We are meat, Elliott thought. It was a horrifying thing to have go through his head. He knew that he and his brothers, that all people everywhere, were also exquisite sparks of unique consciousness – perhaps unique in the thirteen-billion-year history of the universe. We are angels, spirit creatures of hope and light and possibility and love.