11 Quotes by Joel Shepherd

Given some recent events, he'd come to doubt whether being a great warrior was all some made it out to be. But now he'd seen great warriors save the entire corbi race. And Liala had led them, not with bravado and shouting, but with calculation, patience and reason. Being a warrior, then, was more than just one thing. The best warriors, like Liala, Styx, Captain Debogande and Major Thakur, were far more than just brave and dangerous.

That’s not pride. That’s fear. Pride is being so certain in yourself that you’re not intimidated by the strangeness of others. Pride is being so certain that you can look after yourself that you don’t need to threaten or complain or make malicious whispers behind others’ backs.

And there’s nothing in all human space that scares me like human leadership scared of facts.

Given some recent events, he’d come to doubt whether being a great warrior was all some made it out to be. But now he’d seen great warriors save the entire corbi race. And Liala had led them, not with bravado and shouting, but with calculation, patience and reason. Being a warrior, then, was more than just one thing. The best warriors, like Liala, Styx, Captain Debogande and Major Thakur, were far more than just brave and dangerous.

All lost, because one of the galaxy’s many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.

People who think they’re already perfect abandon all hope of self-improvement. That’s the trap.

The corporate joke among humans was that the official symbol of the barabo financial regulator was a shrug.

It is the way, isn’t it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

Capability doesn’t equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she’ll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.