“There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“The world’s best swordsman doesn’t fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can’t predict what the idiot will do.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“And if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins." *”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. "At”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who’s less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can’t cover your I.O.U.s, you lose.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“It wasn’t his fault he’d been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“There could be no compromise with those who rejected one’s own beliefs, for compromise and coexistence only opened the door to schism. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn’t know that was doomed.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges?”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“They never saw the other side of the coin, the responsibility to keep going because your people needed you to and the agony of knowing misjudgment or carelessness could kill far more than just yourself. Or the infinitely worse agony of sentencing your own people to die because you had no choice. Because it was their duty to risk their lives, and it was yours to take them into death’s teeth with you . . . or send them on ahead.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“People who made the Kingdom better than it dreamed it could be, made it live up to its ideals whether it wanted to or not, because they believed in those ideals and made others believe with them.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“Mother’s casting hungry looks at my exec again,” she complained. “Not to worry,” her father replied. “She looks a lot, but she’s never had any reason to roam.” “You’re as bad as she is!”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
David Weber
Born place: in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
Born date October 24, 1952
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“Annabeth jogged towards us, giving me one of those annoyed expressions like, If you get yourself killed, I’m going to murder you.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Crown of Ptolemy
“Incomprehensible,” his colleagues tended to say when they discovered young people who had chosen to take their own lives. Harry assumed they said that to protect themselves, to reject the whole idea of it. If not, he didn’t understand what they meant by its being incomprehensible.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Frelseren
“He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything.
After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me.
Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’
‘That was him.’
Jake shakes his head.
‘What?’
‘He’s not for you,’ he says.
I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know?
‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’
Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’
‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.”
― Melissa Bank, quote from The Wonder Spot
“How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.”
― Brennan Manning, quote from The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“The habit of mobility had become ingrained.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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