Quotes from Joe Haldeman

Èši-a spus cineva ceva? am întrebat-o. - Nu-s decât o ciuperc?. Gluma asta cazon? era veche È™i pe timpul lui taic?-meu: Sunt È›inut? în bezn? È™i hr?nit? cu rahat.

Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political

P?rea straniu c? o reacÈ›ie petrecut? într-un volum de dimensiunea unui parameci ar fi putut declanÈ™a sfârÈ™itul lumii. Al Universului. Evident, singura modalitate de a verifica realmente ipoteza era efectuarea experimentului. Aducea într câtva cu testarea funcÈ›ion?rii unei arme prin înc?rcarea ei, introducerea È›evii în gur? È™i ap?sarea pe tr?gaci.

Agresiunea este o tr?s?tur? a supravieÈ›uirii. Datorit? ei ne g?sim în vârful lanÈ›ului trofic.

Strategia fundamental? era urm?toarea: în primul rând, nu d?deai nimic pe gratis. Un lucru pe care l-am înv??at de la Statul Universal al Bun?st?rii este c? oamenii subevalueaz? lucrurile pentru care nu pl?tesc.

Paul shouted "Mayday!" over the radio. "Where did they come up with that word?" I asked Mother. "Easy to understand on a radio, I guess.

Life is a bunch of cells walking around with a common purpose.

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

tape showing the "eight silent ways." Some of the actors must have been brain-wipes, since they were actually killed.

It's not as if I will be the first leader who ever turned her back on the truth because her people needed the comfort of fantasy. If everyone shared my sense of loss we would be paralyzed, doomed. I have to put it behind myself literally. Live only with the present and the future. We have no real past. We live in a hollow rock surrounded by nothing. Outside of this bubble of life, night that goes on forever. But this is true: it's only in the night that you can see the stars.

I fell asleep and dreamed that I was a machine, mimicking the functions of life, creaking and clanking my clumsy way through a world, people too polite to say anything but giggling behind my back, and the little man who sat inside my head pulling the levers and clutches and watching the dials, he was hopelessly mad and was storing up hurts for the day- Mandella—wake up, goddammit, your shift!

I shouldn't have said 'retreat'; that word wasn't in the book. Retrograde action.

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

While talking on the cube to them, I made a casual gesture, touching middle finger to cheekbone, that used to be phone code: 'Disregard this; someone may be listening.' Most of them returned the gesture.

Her father contended the War was behind it all: any person who showed a shred of talent was sucked up by UNEF;

It bothered her to be sneaky with him. She loved him more than she had any other man or woman on Earth. But she had to find a way to the artifact, either through trust or stealth, and Russ was the obvious candidate for either.

Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease(...).

Our country use satellites to spy on its own people?' 'Well, the satellites go all around the world. They just don't bother to turn them off over the US.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Fewer kinds to make an army.

And as far as being a leader, you do have a certain potential. But it would be along the lines of a teacher or a minister; you would have to lead from empathy, compassion. You have the desire to impose your ideas on other people, but not your will. Which means, you're right, you'll make one hell of a bad officer unless you shape up.

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

V??ná válka je daleko spíÅ¡ dílem odsuzujícím válku, než antimilitaristickým románem

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.