James S.A. Corey famous quotes

03-28-2025

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Lines #Dots #Enough
There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Littles #Holden #Said
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Running #Ideas #People
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Running #Thinking #Simple
You're the predator right up until you're prey.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Predator #Prey
Stars are better off without us.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Stars
No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Wicked
If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Ifs
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Taken #Ideas #Important
No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Burritos #Frozen #Monkeys
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Miracle #Problem #Made
Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Optimism #Conservation #Delta
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?
-- James S.A. Corey

#Beer #Talking #People
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Soul #Anthropology #Theological
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.
-- James S.A. Corey

#Men #Politician #Holy

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