“It’s way cheaper for the company to settle up with a few widows than to overhaul this old barge.”Tagged: Metaphor, Cheaper, company, big business, Windows
“Watch your eyes. People get killed over a wrong look around here.”Tagged: Eyes, killed, look, Careful, cautious
“When people don’t tell the truth, it always ends badly.”Tagged: Lie, Liar, Truth, Consequences, Wisdom
“Cold war is a bloodless war. Mutual distrust and complete co-dependence.”Tagged: War, Cold War, Bloodless, Distrust, Co-Dependence
“Pick all the pockets you want, roll drunks, but when you mess with the water, that’s when you’re going down.”Tagged: criminal, Pickpocket, Drunk, Intoxicated, Water
“If we act like animals we only justify their belief that we are.”Tagged: Animals, Wild, savage, Beliefs, Misconceptions
“People don’t work long range freight because they love it at home.”Tagged: Freight, Home, Work, Long Range
“The history of organized religion isn’t exactly strife-free.”Tagged: History, Religion, Organized Religion, Strife, Conflict
“When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.”Tagged: Dome, Ocean, impossible, Imagine, Nature
“The only things Earthers care about is government handouts. Free food, free water, free drugs so that you can forget the aimless lives you lead. You’re short-sighted and selfish, and it will destroy you.”Tagged: Government, Earth, Lazy, Free, Handouts
“Whoever they are, and whatever they’ve come to do, it’s just become a suicide mission. They started this fight, and we’re going to finish it.”Tagged: Suicide, Suicide Mission, Fight, Violence, violent
“It’s okay to be a pawn, Holden, so long as you’re on the right side.”Tagged: Chess, Pawn, Metaphor, Heroes, Sacrifice
“You can tell a lot about a place by how they treat their people.”Tagged: Place, People, Treatment, Wisdom, Advice
“You either some kind of genius, Mr. Holden, or you the luckiest dipshit in the solar system.”Tagged: swearing, Cursing, Dipshit, Luck, Genius