“the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”
“The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. ”
“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”
“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.”
“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”
“Sometimes I think together we are the worst kind of calamity." Thayer grinned back. Severine's lips burned. "Then I've never wanted to be destroyed so bad.”