Quotes
I love quotes. Wheter they're funny or inspirational. So post here your favorite quotes from books, games , Tv....
I'll start: "No gods or kings, only man."
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I love quotes. Wheter they're funny or inspirational. So post here your favorite quotes from books, games , Tv....
I'll start: "No gods or kings, only man."
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"Traitors! Which of you stood against the Orlesian emperor, when his troops flattened your fields and raped your wives?! You've fought with us once, Eamon! You cared about this land once! Until you've got too old and fat and content to even see what you risk! None of you deserve a say in what happens here! None of you have spilled the blood for this land the way I have! How dare you judge me?!"
"Trust but Verify" and "The Only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
"Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same"
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Yes, I bloody love Fight Club.
Also,
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you."
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
"When you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality."
"Its hard enough fighting a war, its even harder knowing that no matter how much you try, you can't save them all."
"It's better to keep your mouth closed and look stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
"I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck."
"We're born free. All of us. Free. Some don't believe it, some try to take it away. To hell with them! Water like fire, mountains of ice, the whole bit. Lay your eyes on that, and you'll know what freedom is, that it's worth fighting for! Fight to live, risk it all for even a glimmer of real freedom! It doesn't matter what's waiting outside the gate, or what comes in! It doesn't matter how cruel the world can be, or how unjust! Fight. Fight. Fight. FIGHT! FIGHT!!!"
"War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War, and its consumption of life, has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID tagged soldiers carry ID tagged weapons, use ID tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored, and kept under control. War has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control. All in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction. And he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war... becomes routine."
"The Boss' defection was a ruse set up by the US government. It was all a big drama staged by Washington so they could get their hands on the Philosopher's Legacy, and the Boss was the star of the show. They planned it so that they could get the Legacy that Colonel Volgin inherited and destroy the Shagohod at the same time. Only a legendary hero like The Boss could have earned Volgin's trust. Finding out where the Philosopher's Legacy was hidden was to be her greatest mission. Everything was going according to plan... but then something happened that no one could have predicted. Colonel Volgin fired an American-made nuclear warhead at Sokolov's research facility. Khrushchev demanded that the US government provide proof that it wasn't involved. They couldn't just abort the operation to steal the Legacy, so the operation itself was greatly expanded and revised. The authorities in Washington knew that in order to prove its innocence they'd have to get rid of The Boss and that one of their own would have to do the job. The public couldn't be allowed to find out about it, not ever. This, they concluded, would be the best way to keep the whole thing under wraps. The Boss wouldn't be allowed to come back home alive. And she wouldn't be allowed to kill herself. Her life would be ended by her most beloved disciple... that was the way the government wanted it. That was the mission she was given. And she had no choice but to carry it out... her death at your hands was a duty she had to fulfill. Out of duty, she turned her back on her own comrades. A lesser woman would have been crushed by such a burden. The taint of disgrace will follow her to her grave. Future generations will revile her: In America, as a despicable traitor with no sense of honor; and in Russia, as a monster who unleashed a nuclear catastrophe. She will go down in official history as a war criminal, and no one will ever understand her... that was her final mission. And like a true soldier, she saw it through the end. But I think she wanted you, of all people to know the truth. She wanted to live on in your memory. Not as a soldier, but as a woman. But... she was forbidden to tell you herself. And that's why she told me. Snake, history will never know what she did. No one will ever learn the truth. Her story, her debriefing... will endure only in your heart. Everything she did, she did for her country. She sacrificed her life and her honor for her native land. She was a real hero. She was a true patriot. "
"Glory is just memory putting a brave face on horror." --unknown veteran of the Napoleonic Wars.
"The most frightening thing in this world is someone who believes they are right."
"Opinions are like testicles. Kick them hard enough, it doesn't matter how many you've got."
(Only a select few will understand most of these.)
"K"
"Also what made you think I wouldn't still be a fgt after this? After all, us 6 will be fgts till the end of time it's our curse."
"You guys are skrubs"
"MAJESTIC EAGLE!"
"Africanitis, Internet Ebola, and Aliens."
This one is for all you writers out there.
"I for one, can say I am sorry to hear this. Food for thought here, I've always believed that the best story tellers were probably the ones that were the most critical of their own work. I think this makes them strive for perfection, when perfection is never a real, reality. That can be a tall order to fill, no doubt. It also my opinion, that a person's life and time is valuable and they won't spend it on something that they things is not worth it, I know mine is. I say that to say this, you wonder why people hang around, they hang around because there is something here, that you created, that they feel is worth being a part of. Simple as that. I am certain that there are many here who would echo the sentiment, when I tell you that you absolutely a talented writer and should be proud of what you've offered. It is worthy of the pride. When I was contemplating giving this a go, there were a few in here whose opinions I valued, you were one of them. I sincerely hope this isn't the last we see from you; but wish you nothing but the best in whatever you do. No worries. It's easy for me to say things are this or that, because I've had 46 years to make a shit ton of mistakes, have a shit ton of regrets, and to wake up one day and finally realize what was important, to me. I've also learned that life can be tough, and very unforgiving at times; like I said a shit ton of mistakes and a shit ton of regrets before I got to where I wanted to be. That said, I wouldn't be who I am today, without having walked that road. Hang in there, definitely keep writing, whether here, this, or somewhere and something else. You definitely have talent, the fact that so many here hung on your words and what you created is ample evidence of that. But most of all do you, be true to you, and take care of you. Do those things, and the rest of the bullshit will work itself out. Again, wish you nothing but the best in whatever you do and sincerely hope this isn't the last we see of or from you." - Some awesome forum user
Good old Varric.
"We're all broken, that's how the light gets in." -Ernest Hemingway
But War never changes!
"K". Sounds familliar.
" Ideas are more powerful than guns."
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
~ Terry Pratchett
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
~ Stephen King
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
~ Stephen King
"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."
~Robin Williams
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
~ Robin Williams
“If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
~ Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
~ Oscar Wilde
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
~ Oscar Wilder
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
~William Shakespeare
"Listen to many, speak to a few."
~William Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
~William Shakespeare
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
~William Shakespeare
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
~ Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”
~Terry Pratchett, Hogfather