Vaughn Heppner > Quotes

“I drew it, showing him the Bowie. “With this blade, I will personally peel off your skin and nail it to my bedroom floor. Every time I think of you, I’ll wipe my feet on the fur.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“Join the Army, see the world. Meet new and exciting people, and kill them.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“Wise decisions have not given us this position of freedom,” N7 said. “Wild, nearly insane decisions have proven best so far. Perhaps we should stick to what works.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“they were strong and they had good tech. What they lacked was imagination.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“People are most concerned about the pebble in their shoe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“If you become a coward, you die a thousand deaths throughout your life. A brave man or woman only dies once.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Maddox knew the importance of appearing confident. Never let them see you sweat. That intimidated opponents and bolstered allies. Right about now, his crew needed all the encouragement they could get. Lieutenant”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“If you become a coward, you die a thousand deaths throughout your life.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“The man who considers himself beaten is beaten. The man that still strives, no matter what the odds stacked against him, has a chance.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“They had powered armor and heavy caliber rifles. We had bio-suits and pure hearts, oh yeah.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“I refuse to let someone’s reputation defeat me, only his actions.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“If we’re doomed, as you say, why not strive with every fiber in you to defeat the night? Why go quietly down to death? Let’s fight oblivion together. Let’s fight to live longer and do more than simply quit. If you admit defeat, the game is already up. If you strive, well, who knows, maybe we’ll produce another wonder.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“All life is a risk, Lieutenant. We have to play the hand we’re dealt, not the one we’d like.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“It’s a Saurian,” Rollo muttered. Oh, I saw what he meant. The alien had a bubble-like helmet. The creature was a walking lizard, or looked like one, a giant gecko from those insurance commercials. That widened my smile, and for a second I wondered if this Saurian would speak in a British accent.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“Where others go unarmed, there it is wise to go armed.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Star Viking

“Social Unity theory spoke about equality, using it so the State could plunder the production of the individual.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Battle Pod

“A key to success in battle was to make a decision—good or bad—and to stick with it. Being wishy-washy during a fight led to death or defeat or possibly both.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“My personal belief was that man was made to work. Unemployment was one of the worst evils, as it stole a man’s pride.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“You desire to become a pirate?” N7 asked. “No,” I said, “a Viking.” “I do not understand your reference.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“You’re asking me to join you as a suicide trooper?” I asked. “For the sake of our universe,” Venturi said, “yes.” “No,” I said. “I don’t give a shit about the universe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“He had the stamp of perfection: not of a Nietzsche superman but of the ultimate butt-kissing underling.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“Few things moved people like religion. For some people, their politics was their religion. For some, football, soccer or bowling became their most sacred belief. On Earth in the past, communism became the religion of Karl Marx, Lenin and hundreds of millions of true believers. In the United States, feminism had become a religion. If you spoke out against it, certain people went ballistic. The same held true for gun rights and a host of other issues.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Star Viking

“socialism always led to a police state, with a heavy emphasis on thought control.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Battle Pod

“said. “You never do,” Keith told her.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Why give laws to perfectly behaved people?”
― Vaughn Heppner, A.I. Assault

“So…you’re helping us get better?” Maddox asked. “We are.” “By killing us?” Maddox asked. “By eliminating the befouling genetic elements,” Per Lomax said. “Maybe we don’t want your help.” “That is humanity’s collective stupidity speaking through you. For no other reasons than sloth and foolishness, your race loves to hinder progress. We will no longer allow that.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“It was the short run that counted, many of them strung together until they won.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, had also been the first to start his own religion. He came to Jehovah not as Jehovah decreed, with an innocent lamb slain for his sins, but with the fruit of the field. Cain toiled in the ground cursed by Jehovah, and after stabbed by thorns and with blistered hands he brought to Jehovah his best. He had worked his way to Jehovah. He had taken what would forever be known as the ‘way of Cain.’  He tried to purchase Jehovah’s favor through his best effort. For Cain it was with his best fruits and grains, first grown in the ground by hard labor and then harvested by the sweat of his brow. He rejected Jehovah’s revealed way. Sacrificing a lamb, ah, so bloody and crude and barbarous, and showing that man’s sinfulness required something that man himself would never be good enough to pay for—it was an insult to a proud man, and Cain was very proud.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“As a great philosopher had once said, “People are most concerned about the pebble in their shoe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Barbarians broke the accepted rules. Barbarians spat on the culture. The best way to deal with barbarians was to keep them outside civilization’s borders. Once the barbarians were inside the gates in large numbers, the civilization was likely doomed.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Earth