“It's better to get things right than to get them fast.”

“The older I get, the better I used to be.”

“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.”

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you may miss it when you get there”

“Gortrek gave him a look. 'Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win.”

“Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at all in the matter.”

“The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way." Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda.”