Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.

— David Drake

David Drake Quotes

Life’s a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you’ve been under the hammer a few times, you’ll find you’ve been beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There’ll.

— David Drake

I don’t have any problem with what other people believe, so long as they don’t expect their beliefs to affect my behavior.

— David Drake

Come on, Sunshine, if you think you’re hard enough.

— David Drake

Logic wasn’t the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.

— David Drake

If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.

— David Drake

People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.

— David Drake

I’ve decided that it’s better to be alive until it’s time to be buried.

— David Drake

I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.

— David Drake

The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair,” Adele said at last. “I think some people should be thankful for that reality.

— David Drake

It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.

— David Drake

A fire department isn’t a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.

— David Drake

I sat in on a late-night party once in which the subject of friendship came up, and I listened in dumbstruck incredulity as one man explained that his friends had to like the same things he did – that they must not only read the same books and magazines he did, and listen to the same music, but pretty much share his opinions of all those things. He.

— David Drake

It’s all right for a leader to be ruthless, Adele thought. He shouldn’t be whimsical, though, and he especially shouldn’t be whimsically ruthless.

— David Drake

Arrogance wasn’t the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

— David Drake

Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.

— David Drake

Many times information was most effective when it wasn’t used. The same was true of any other weapon.

— David Drake

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn’t in the other people.

— David Drake

Dogs don’t need philosophies, they just fight. It seems to me that men do the same, though they usually come up with reasons. Justice is a good one.

— David Drake

So long as authority comes only from having a hand on a throat, wisdom and mercy are a moot point.

— David Drake

Lieutenant Daniel Leary ambled through the streets of Kostroma City in the black-piped gray 2nd Class uniform of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. He was on his way to the Elector’s Palace, but there was no hurry and really nothing more important for Daniel to do than to savor the fact that he’d realized one of his childhood dreams: to walk a far world and see its wonders first hand.

— David Drake
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