Steve Perry: Timing

Steve Perry is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on timing.

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“When you worked in a profession whose tools included guns and bombs, death was always on the menu; only a matter of time until the order you placed arrived…”

Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 6

“The good old days always seemed better in distant memory than they had actually been at the time.”

Source: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013), Chapter 4

“Droc was not particularly religious himself. If the gods responded to entreaties, they had never demonstrated it to him. Better his time was spent doing something that might work.”

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The Vastalimi Gambit (2013)

“What other paths were there? His studies had shown him that revolution and evolution were the only ways that societies ever truly changed. Revolution and evolution, built of a mix of education and violence and politics and compromise and self-interest and self-preservation. Certainly, history showed that rigid societies, like ancient dinosaurs, always died. The Confed was the biggest dinosaur ever, and while it was already dying and had been doing so for a long time, it would take many years before it finally fell. Any empire which had to hold its citizens in check with military force was far down the road to destruction. Which brought up another thought: what would replace the dead beast when it began to rot? What parasite would emerge from the corpse to try and breed itself into superiority?”

Steve Perry book The Man Who Never Missed

Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 132)

“He thought about the killing he’d seen, about his final participation in the slaughter on Maro. It still made him want to vomit, the thought of all those people ceasing to exist. Many religions had it that there was another life, another existence following the one known, but Khadaji held no faith in that idea. Maybe so, maybe not. It would be nice, but until it was proven, a person should make the best of his or her time on the physical plane.”

Steve Perry book The Man Who Never Missed

Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 15 (pp. 130-131)

“Nobody is a born killer. And nobody ever forgets the first time they get laid, nor the first time they spike somebody.”

Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 16