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Mark Fergus Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“It’s okay to be a pawn, Holden, so long as you’re on the right side.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: Rock Bottom
Tagged: Chess, Pawn, Metaphor, Heroes, Sacrifice
“Cold war is a bloodless war. Mutual distrust and complete co-dependence.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 1: The Big Empty
Tagged: War, Cold War, Bloodless, Distrust, Co-Dependence, Conflict, tension
“It’s way cheaper for the company to settle up with a few widows than to overhaul this old barge.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Metaphor, Cheaper, company, big business, Windows, Overhaul
“I need you to know, whatever happens, wherever you go, you’re not gonna do it alone.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 2: Home
Tagged: Alone, Friendship, Partner, Partnership, Together, Inspirational
“I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the whole purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: Practicality, Departures
“You give a monkey a stick, inevitably he’ll beat another monkey to death with it.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 2: The Monster and the Rocket
Tagged: Monkey, Death, Beat, Violence, Metaphor, humanity, Animals
“Mars will accuse Earth of using a bio weapon. Earth will claim it was Mars. The Belt will blame the other two. It’s a good way to start a war and to cover it up.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 1: Leviathan Wakes
Tagged: Space, Mars, Earth, Fantasy, Sci Fi, War, Battle, Conflict, Cover Up, Aliens
“I grew up in a goddamn pachinko parlor, okay? And I sure as shit don’t want to die in one.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Leviathan Wakes
Tagged: swearing, Cursing, Pachinko, Japanese Culture, Death, explicit, Snarky
“That's kind of catchy. It's got a nice ring to it. I mean it's not technically accurate. The suit's a gold titanium alloy, but it's kind of provocative, the imagery anyway.”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: Titanium, gold, Alloy, Literal
“You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
“Well, you can forget it. I am Iron Man. The suit and I are one. To turn over the Iron Man suit would be to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution, depending on what state you're in.”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: Indentured Servitude, prostitution
“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.”
— Lopez, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Government, Earth, Lazy, Free, Handouts, Drugs, Short-Sighted, Selfish, humans, Destroy, Destruction
“You either some kind of genius, Mr. Holden, or you the luckiest dipshit in the solar system.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: Rock Bottom
Tagged: swearing, Cursing, Dipshit, Luck, Genius, The Solar System
“Usually, when a man is about to lose everything, he realizes what mattered to him most. He sees it clearly for the first time.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 1: Windmills
Tagged: realization, Matters, Clarity, Cares, Importance, Loss
“Pick all the pockets you want, roll drunks, but when you mess with the water, that’s when you’re going down.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: The Big Empty
Tagged: criminal, Pickpocket, Drunk, Intoxicated, Water, downfall, dark, Warning, Threat
“When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.”
— Lopez, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Dome, Ocean, impossible, Imagine, Nature, sheltered
“My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: Power, Peace, Mutually Assured Destruction
“My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: Nazis, Manhattan Project, Hero, Brown University
“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.”
— Captain Theresa Yao, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Suicide, Suicide Mission, Fight, Violence, violent, Battle
“No laws in Ceres. Just cops.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Cops, Laws, Law, rule, Corrupt, Lawless
“Watch your eyes. People get killed over a wrong look around here.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Eyes, killed, look, Careful, cautious, Warning, Threat
“Optimism is for assholes and Earthers.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Leviathan Wakes
Tagged: Optimism, Assholes, Cursing, swearing, explicit, Earth, humans, humanity, Aliens
“It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got.”
— Iron Man, Iron Man
Tagged: imperfect, One Life
“You can tell a lot about a place by how they treat their people.”
— Amos Burton, The Expanse, Season 1: Rock Bottom
Tagged: Place, People, Treatment, Wisdom, Advice, Judgment
“Sometimes it takes a few monsters to get back on track.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 2: The Monster and the Rocket
Tagged: monsters, Demons, Journey, Hero's Journey, Wisdom, Deep
“Some people aren’t worth saving.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Windmills
Tagged: Worth, saving, Wisdom, Sad
“If we act like animals we only justify their belief that we are.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 1: Remember the Cant
Tagged: Animals, Wild, savage, Beliefs, Misconceptions, affirmation, justify
“When people don’t tell the truth, it always ends badly.”
— Chrisjen Avasarala, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Lie, Liar, Truth, Consequences, Wisdom
“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”
— Chrisjen Avasarala, The Expanse, Season 2: The Monster and the Rocket
Tagged: Family, Conflict, Parents, kids, Children, Childhood, Crisis, Loyalty, Divorce
“I fix ships, not people.”
— Naomi Nagata, The Expanse, Season 1: Back to the Butcher
Tagged: Fix, People, Ships, save, Sassy, Snarky
“Trust your gut before your head gets in the way.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Salvage
Tagged: Gut, Head, Intuition, Logic, Gut Feeling, Feeling
“Go into a room too fast, kid… The room eats you.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 3: It Reaches Out
Tagged: Room, Fast, Eat, Philosophy, mysterious
“We live in strange times.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 1: Salvage
Tagged: live, Life, strange, Times, Weird, Relatable
“Wrecking things is what Earthers do best.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: wreck, Destruction, Earthers, humans, humanity, Self-Destruct, Aliens
“Thanks for the lift. And the cancer.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 2: Safe
Tagged: cancer, lift, Cheeky, Snarky, Sassy, joke
“Sometimes you have to kill to preserve.”
— Captain Theresa Yao, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Kill, preserve, strategy, cruel, War, Conflict, Paradox
“Earthers have a home. It’s time Belters had one, too.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 1: Back to the Butcher
Tagged: Earth, Earthers, Home, planet, Aliens, Science Fiction
“A child who won’t grow up turns into a fool.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 3: Fight or Flight
Tagged: Child, Fool, Grow Up, Children, maturity, Immature
“The history of organized religion isn’t exactly strife-free.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: History, Religion, Organized Religion, Strife, Conflict
“People don’t work long range freight because they love it at home.”
— Naomi Nagata, The Expanse, Season 1: Remember the Cant
Tagged: Freight, Home, Work, Long Range
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