17 Quotes by Joseph R. Lallo

Honestly, people always talk about ‘normal’ as though it is something to aspire to, but that’s a load of crap. Normal isn’t an achievement, it’s a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting.

Grief is like any other kind of pain. No matter how intense or how constant it is, time takes the edge from it. It may not fade, but it loses its sharpness. It becomes the new normal, and eventually steps aside and makes room in the mind for other things.

Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing!

Why do we live, if not to learn? And in the spirit of education, let me suggest that you put this new knowledge to work. Obedience is praised, but success is rewarded.

The problem with engineers today is that they don’t think on paper.

You can keep trying. Try and fail, try and fail. Maybe many times, but if you continue to try while the others do not, then you will win. So never stop trying.

Deckhand’s just a fancy word for a person who does everything.” “Where I work, they call people like that a free-wrench. That was my job.” “So.

The following task would have been a lot easier if she had three hands, not to mention if she were on solid ground and not being shot at by lunatics.

As entertaining as it would be to see you run in a screaming conflagration from my kitchen after falling face-first into the fire, I am in no mood to clean it up.