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Just thought I'd give some quotes for various use for the community - whether for Bob to use in the Walk or as something interesting for a reader:
“Absolute governments, (tho’ the
disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if
the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know
likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“Millions long for immortality, but
do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” – Susan
Ertz
“Immortality
no longer interests the weary old man at all.” – Milan Kundera, Immortality
“A man's immortality can be found in
his children.” – Patricia Briggs, Raven's
Shadow
“I don't want to achieve immortality
through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” – Woody
Allen, On Being Funny
“You’re only an immortal until someone
manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.” – Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather
“Don't try to add more years to your
life. Better add more life to your years.” – Blaise Pascal
“I am not at all interested in
immortality, only in the taste of tea.” – Laozi
“Some people are so afraid do die
that they never begin to live.” – Henry Van Dyke
“When you were born, you cried and
the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and
you rejoice.” – Indian Proverb
“No one knows whether death, which
people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato
“Death is not the worst that can
happen to men.” – Plato
“Only the dead have seen the end of
war.” – Plato
“Life does not cease to be funny
when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” –
George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing is ever done in this world
until men are prepared to kill on another if it is not done.” – George Bernard
Shaw, Major Barbara
"Either that wallpaper goes, or
I do." – Last Words of Oscar Wilde
"I go to seek a Great
Perhaps." – Last Words of François Rabelais
"I
die hard but am not afraid to go." – Last Words of George Washington
"What an artist dies in
me." – Last Words of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 5th
Roman Emperor
"Dammit; I think I am becoming
a god." – Last Words of Vespacian, Roman Emperor
"It's stopped." – Last
Words of surgeon Joseph Green, upon checking his own pulse
"A strategist must have a clear
heart. If personal desire is wrapped in it, he or she will become a
manipulative monster." – Takenaka Hanbei of Mino, Oda Nobuna no Yabou Volume 8
“I believe in the power of the
imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back
the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with
birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” – J.G. Ballard
“They opened up a can’a dumb-ass!” – Jon
Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“I am amazing at being humble.” –
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
(5 November 2014)
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” –
Henry Brooks Adams
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s
work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.” – Jacques Barzum
“There's one last thing you should never forget, Ise. Even a Pawn can take
down the King.” – Rias Gremory, Heiress of House Gremory, High School DxD Volume 1, Life 4
“Don’t start with me, fella. ‘Cause
in a battle of wits – you’re unarmed.” – Uncle Arthur, Bewitched
“No matter how mighty a power you
acquire, an amateur can't all of a sudden become a top-class magician.” – Kaze
no Stigma, Volume 4
“Magic is not absolute. Nor
almighty. If you fight against it without fear, it can be opposed with
intelligence and effort.” – Kaze no Stigma, Volume 4
“In the absence of orders, go find
something and kill it.” – Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
“Win with ability, not with
numbers.” – Field Marshall Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov
“L’audace, l’audace, toujours
l’audace!” (Translation: “Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”) – Frederick
the Great
“Older men declare war. But it is
youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert Hoover
“The pure and simple truth is rarely
pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
“Don’t you know a kid always wins
against two idiots?” – Kevin McAllister, Home
Alone 2: Lost in New York
“Impressions are also a form of
sorcery. Rumors are the same. They influence people and mislead them.” – Miyo
Kurahashi, Dean of Onmyo Prep School, Tokyo
Ravens Episode 4
“Impressions are also one form of
magic *slight pause* and also a curse.” – Miyo Kurahashi, Principal of Onmyo
Academy, Tokyo Ravens Volume Two
“Only by completely cutting ties
between magic and religion were we able to make the mystic causality warping
property of magic. This was a big leap for the future development of magical
techniques.” – Suzuka Dairenji, Tokyo
Ravens Volume One
"In
the end, the ways of God, government, and girls are all mysterious, and it is
not given to mortal man to understand them." – Harry James Potter, plums’ Last Second Savior, Chapter 9
“Change is scary, even
for people who don’t fear guns or knives; change is scary.” – Alfred
Pennyworth, Nycorson’s JLA and the
Slayers
William Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement!
In a fair fight, I'd kill you!Jack Sparrow: Well, that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then,
is it?
Lord Cutler Beckett: “You’re mad.”
Captain Jack Sparrow: “Thank goodness for that, 'cause if I wasn't this would
probably never work.”
“Obi-Wan wanted to blurt out the
question. But one of the Jedi’s most serious rules was not to cross-examine a
Master. Truth can hold great power. Therefore the decision to share it must be
weighed. Only the Master could decide on
revelation or concealment, according to the greater good.” – Thoughts of
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Jedi
Apprentice #2 – The Dark Rival by Jude Watson
“Life surprises you. Accept the gift.” –
Jedi saying, Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice -
#13 The Dangerous Rescue by Jude Watson
"Even in the middle of a mission,
don't neglect to taste the pastries." – Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice - #14 The Ties
That Bind by Jude Watson
"The
universe is already mad. Everything else is just redundant." – Londo
Mollari, Babylon 5
"Is that it, Dad? Did the
penguin tell you to do this?" – Billy Madison, Billy Madison
"What you've just said... is
one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your
rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be
considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having
listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your
soul..." – Principal Oblaski, Billy
Madison
Monsters. Monsters who dragged
people into the darkness and inflicted unspeakable torments upon them for pleasure...
Monsters whose existence was a plague upon millions.Monsters who had taken my child.
The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are
subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one
mostly right.I stepped forward, let the door bang
closed, and snarled, “Fuck subtle.” – Harry Dresden, Wizard, Jim Butcher’s The
Dresden Files, Changes
“Are you always a smartass?'"Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”
- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“Did you really save the world?""Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.”- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
"For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.”- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?""Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster."My dick is better than your dick," I said.- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can’t control. No matter how much you want to.”
- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
- Harry Dresden, Proven Guilty
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
- Harry Dresden, Dead Beat
“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
- Harry Dresden, Changes
“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
- Harry Dresden, Grave Peril
“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
- Harry Dresden, Summer Knight
“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
- Harry Dresden, White Night
“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”
- Harry Dresden, Fool Moon
“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”
- Harry Dresden, Proven Guilty
“Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.”
- Harry Dresden, Mean Streets
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.”
- Harry Dresden, Turn Coat
“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
- Harry Dresden, Vignette
“I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.”
- Harry Dresden, Grave Peril
“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types. You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”
- Harry Dresden, Small Favor
“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”
- Harry Dresden, White Night
“Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!”
- Harry Dresden, White Night
“My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”
- Michael Carpenter, Death Masks
“I put the ick in magic.”
- Harry Dresden, Death Masks
"Perhaps
none of us can escape politics, but that does not mean I must succumb to them.
One man losing an eye to politics is enough. I cannot allow Mankind to be
sacrificed on that same altar. The most elegant speeches may sway the hearts
and minds of men, but not one ever stopped a bullet." - Anastasius Focht,
Battletech: Blood Legacy
“History shows no force so strong, no
statement so persuasive, as a people’s belief that they are the best, that they
are destiny’s progeny, and the chosen rulers of mankind. They fall for it every
time.” – Ambassador Cari Glessen, In the
Belly of the Dragon: My Service in the Draconis Combine, Lyran Commonwealth
Historical Press, 2928
“Force, and fraud, are in war the
two cardinal virtues.” – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“How different the new order would
be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.” – Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
“Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your
life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
“A woman is like a teabag; you never
know how strong she is until she's in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“He who fights with monsters might
take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an
abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
"One of the most obvious facts
about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a
child." – Randall Jarrell
“The secret of war lies in
communications.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“In politics, stupidity is not a
handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Better a known enemy than a forced
ally.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, Political
Aphorisms
“Religion
is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“No plan survives contact with the
enemy.” – Helmuth von Moltke
“War prefers its victims young.” –
Sophocles
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to
decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost
“A little rebellion now and then is
a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the
physical.” – Thomas Jefferson, Works,
Vol. VI
"Giving money and power to
Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J.
O'Rourke
“It takes all kinds to make a universe.” –
Moyani saying
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
– Romain Rolland
“I
have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush,
23 September 1800
"I wish I had a kryptonite
cross, because then you could keep both Dracula and Superman away" – Jack
Handy
“Loyalty is the marrow of honor” – Paul
von Hindenburg, Out of My Life
"Experience should teach us to
be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are
beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their
liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
understanding." – Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438
(1928)
The
devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness.
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
—William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
"A man must not live under the
same sky as one who has injured his Lord or Father." – Ieyasu Tokugawa, Article
51 of the Constitution of the Warrior
“We are the Goon Squad
and we’re coming to town.
Beep Beep!”
- David Bowie, “Fashion”
"Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a
dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee
that the weapon will never be turned on the user." - Isaac Asimov
“Thinking is the hardest work there
is, which is probably why so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford
“There's no point being grown-up if you
can't be childish sometimes.” – The Fourth Doctor, “Robot,” Doctor Who
“Never cared much for the word
"impregnable." Sounds a bit too much like "unsinkable." –
The Fourth Doctor, “Robot,” Doctor Who
“All right! I confess, I confess. — I
confess to your being a bigger idiot than I thought.” – The Fourth Doctor, “The
Deadly Assassin,” Doctor Who
“The very powerful and the very stupid
have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They
alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to
be one of the facts that needs altering.” – The Fourth Doctor, “The Face of
Evil,” Doctor Who
“Answers are easy. It's asking the right
questions which is hard.” – The Fourth Doctor, “The Face of Evil,” Doctor Who
“Anybody remotely interesting is mad in
some way.” – The Seventh Doctor, “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy,” Doctor Who
“There's no such thing as an ordinary
human.” – The Tenth Doctor, “The Lazarus Experiment,” Doctor Who
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