74 quotes
Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death during wartime—there weren’t any answers.
Trial by Fire (2014)
That’s one thing I’ve noticed about war, Richard: there’s always more than enough irony to go around.
Caine's Mutiny (2017)
Human, do you derive some strange pleasure by using different words to reiterate the same misperceptions?
Marque of Caine (2019)
Beings that can laugh at themselves, particularly their own foibles, stand the greatest chance of attaining wisdom.
Trial by Fire (2014)
After all, an agent on the inside of a rival organization was always worth more, operationally speaking, than a loyal servitor in one’s own.
Caine's Mutiny (2017)
The reality, both now and historically, was that whatever the future held, change was always uneven in distribution and irregular in timing.
Marque of Caine (2019)
When such leaders act in opposition to their sworn duties, they compound injustice with disgrace.
Marque of Caine (2019)
Your arrogant self-importance is complicating your perception of what is a very simple matter.
Caine's Mutiny (2017)
In the face of crisis, I will choose unauthorized action over disastrous inaction.
Marque of Caine (2019)
If there are any competent journalists here, I’m ready for their inquiries.
Trial by Fire (2014)
“Damn,” muttered Opal, staring after him, “guess he flunked charm school.”
Trial by Fire (2014)
Most of my professors can’t see the wider forest of meaning because they’ve become obsessed with a few mostly meaningless trees.
Raising Caine (2015)
I know it’s human nature to want to draw conclusions, but I distrust straight-line projections when we only have two data points.
Raising Caine (2015)
Battles are lost because a combatant stops fighting too soon; wars are lost because a combatant does not stop fighting soon enough.
Caine's Mutiny (2017)
A sense of humor—bitter or otherwise—is the hallmark of a survivor.
Fire with Fire (2013)
Idrem sensed Brenlor swinging toward the rash reactivity that the Srin often mistook for decisive action when confronted with a crisis.
Caine's Mutiny (2017)
You are to be congratulated on your talent for deception.
Trial by Fire (2014)
Whose tutelage led you into those fishless waters?
Marque of Caine (2019)
Stupid creatures tend to be stubborn creatures.
Marque of Caine (2019)
Your conjecture is reasonable but inaccurate.
Marque of Caine (2019)