Quotes from John Ringo

There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig," Paula said. "We are one day going to run afoul of him and he will raise a great storm to punish us.

Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

The skinheads never got anywhere, Hansi, continued the general, because this is Germany and the assholes never learned to march in step . . .

That's the way to get the chicks for free. And getting the chicks for free is the only true pursuit for a grown-up male. Before puberty, of course, it's avoiding them like the plague.

They got the Library of Alexandria. They're not getting mine. Bumper sticker (with quote flanked by silhouettes of pistol and rifle)

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage. Henry the Fifth.

The nature of life prior to enlightenment was necessarily and irreparably a morass of injustice—the rule was as solidly inflexible as Tlschp's Law of the Balance of Entropy.

Arachnophobia," Stan repeated, finally raising his head. "Arachnids induce fear and panic in a large number of people. The theory is that they are so unworldly, so unlike any normal creature, that it induces an automatic 'other' response in many humans. It's been studied because of the possibility that there would be a similar response on the part of anyone encountering aliens.

Heroes happen because somebody made a mistake.

I'm raising jailbait in a valley full of horny soldiers; it is never too early to start drinking.

Sophia "Seawolf" Smith was one of the founding members of the Wolf Squadron. As such, despite being fifteen, she was a shareholder and not a minor one, as well as being a member of the Captain's Board as skipper of the thirty-five-foot Worthy Endeavor. The boat had gotten beaten up by nearly six months at sea, not to mention the zombies that took it over, but it was still her boat.

Yes, my bug-out bag is packed," Faith said and grimaced. "'Where's your bug-out bag?' 'Is your bug-out bag packed?' 'What's your inventory?' 'Why did I get the insane parents?

It didn't take much to work out the technical hitches since we didn't have corrupt contractors and the government procurement process to deal with.

Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.

In 1994, eight hundred thousand people were massacred in Rwanda," Fontana said. "Mostly by having an arm hacked off by a machete and being left to die.

Humans talk about 'fight-flight.' Isn't binary, quaternary: fight, flight, bluff, submit. Every human is different pattern for different conditions, but all humans have all four to an extent. ... All human interaction works on those four responses ...

Mr. Tyler's sexual

Never ever say: It couldn't be worse.

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

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Al Gore's 'reinventing government.' They cut a bunch of government employees, but they all seemed to come out of DOD and intel.

Prior to deconfliction of the battlespace, enhancement of mission architecture is derecommended, the CO said.

For the anvil never cries for the iron.