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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

If you can fight,fight,help each other, be prepared for anything.

[Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal

I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead ... Only 'the gods' know what awaits us at its end.

PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE

Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

What are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

Organize before they rise!

And that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.
Arthur Sinclair

We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth.

Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

The highest distinction is service to others.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

The dead walk among us.

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

Use your head; cut off theirs.

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

What are you, your fucking mother?" ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z

I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm

Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?

Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.

Personally, I could have cared less.

And, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.