Harry Turtledove Quotes

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

That wasn’t even close to fair, and Sylvia knew it. But she’s already seen that political campaigns weren’t designed to be fair. They were designed to convince, by whatever means possible.

The Holy Spirit will guide the assembled fathers to the truth," the magistrianos said confidently. Being a veteran of years of bureaucratic infighting, he added, "Of course, we may have to help things along a bit.

A war is a disaster whether you win or you lose—it’s only a worse disaster if you lose.

From what I’ve seen, people who brag a lot are usually trying to convince themselves even more than other people.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Anyone who forces something on someone and then says he will be better for it—you will, I hope, understand me when I say this is difficult to appreciate.

His eyes were black and shiny; he had somehow the heir of a man who saw things no one else did. Whether those things were actually there, Argyros was not sure.

Everyone marched everywhere at Fort Custer. Armstrong had begun to think Thou shalt march' was in the Bible somewhere right below Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain—two commandments he was learning more about violating every day.

They wouldn’t understand no matter what, any more than they would understand what life in the trenches was like. Experience brought understanding. Nothing else came close.

That was something else war was about: not caring.

Maybe not thinking about the price of failure was what marked a hero. On the other hand, maybe it just marked a damn fool.

An idea may be a good one no matter who propounds it.

There’s no such thing as glory, near as I can tell. If the machine guns didn’t kill it, the artillery did.

Hamnet Thyssen wondered if Witigis was a holy man or simply a madman. His vacant features didn’t promise much in the way of brains.