Favourite Quotes Thread

[Ruandre]

All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass. -Yeats

[Rah_Skill]

@ Mic
"Dear Chairman, I imagine this investigation of our program is providing you the kind of attention that politicians crave so much. How very predictable. What has surprised me most about mankind during the Great War is not our ability to adapt to the new arenas of conflict, but instead, our willingness in victory to so quickly return to the old."

[B4warn3d]

"I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.” - Marilyn Manson

“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why dont you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.” - Marilyn Manson

"I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much." - Valerie, V for Vendetta.

"Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror" - V for Vendetta

[Nekuro]

"Voil?! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." - V (V for Vendetta)

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." - Albert Einstein

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

[Ruandre]

In my view, Dante was grossly in error when, with an ingenuity inspiring terror, he set that inscription over the gateway into his hell: “Eternal love also created me.” Over the gateway into the Christian paradise and its “eternal blessedness” it would, in any event, be more fitting to let the inscription stand “Eternal hate also created me”—provided it's all right to set a truth over the gateway to a lie! - Nietzsche

[Mic]

Thanks Rah_Skill, thought that was an older quote, but it's still good :P

"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

-Winston Churchill.

[ZoRPA]

One look is worth a thousand reports - unknown

[SOLD1ER]

"Now show me your fear! Drown yourself in awe..., and despair! Cry like a lost child! Because my art...is a BANG!" -Deidara (from Naruto)

[Unreal Arbiter]

Shamelessly ripped off reddit:

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by *******s.

William Gibson

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Dave Barry

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

Albert Einstein

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are ****sure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Isaac Asimov

[Sir-Ominous]

''FINISH HIM''
MK

[EquinoX]

A will is nothing but a dead give-away.

Sacred 2

I would agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Unknown (well, to me atleast)

[gordanfreeman50]

" I'll kill everyone and burn everything to ashes. Then I will go home, masturbate, and sleep"

Some famous anime? Saw it on a motivational poster. Can't get a link, but you have to admit i'ts pretty EPIC!

[wir]

" I'll kill everyone and burn everything to ashes. Then I will go home, masturbate, and sleep"

Some famous anime? Saw it on a motivational poster. Can't get a link, but you have to admit i'ts pretty EPIC!

Hellsing

I know this.

[Chevron]

"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore

[wisp]

Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.
-- Yoda

Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are.
-- Yoda

Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Yoda

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
-- Yoda

Always in motion is the future.
-- Yoda

Around the survivors a perimeter create.
-- Yoda

Size matters not.
-- Yoda

May the force be with you.
-- Yoda

Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.
-- Yoda

A Jedi's strength flows from the Force.
-- Yoda

Help you I can, yes.
-- Yoda

Strong am I with the force.
-- Yoda

Agree with you the council does. Your apprentice Skywalker will be.
-- Yoda

Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice.
-- Yoda

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.
-- Yoda

When 900 years you reach, look as good, you will not.
-- Yoda
And by Uncle Darth

• "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
• "You don't know the power of the dark side!"
• "Luke, I am your father!."
• "Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and soon the fall of the rebellion."
• "The force is strong with this one."
• "I sense something, a presence I've not felt since......."
• "You should not have come back!"
• "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."
• "Just for once, let me look at your face with my own eyes."
• "I've been waiting for you, Obi-wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
• "Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them."
• "Obi-Wan has taught you well."
• " Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the power of the Dark Side, I must obey my master."
• "It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now."
• "You are unwise to lower your defenses!"
• " As you wish."
• "No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself."
• "My son is with them."
• "You cannot hide forever, Luke."
• "Don't fail me again, Admiral."
• "Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses."
• "He will join us or die, my master."
• "Alert all commands. Calculate every possible destination along their last
known trajectory."
• "Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me."
• "The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet."
• "What is thy bidding, my master?"
• "When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master."

[Nekuro]

I think wisp just won this thread.
"Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.", this just reminds me that I need to watch all the Star Wars movies again after my exams!

"So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” Anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the mother****er. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family." - George Carlin

[Unreal Arbiter]

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’

- Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

[Liszt]

"We don't keep secrets, secrets keep us".
- Anonymous

"The abandonment of tonality was a grievous error. Too much was lost. The history of music reveals a process of accumulation, not substitution. Nothing ever loses its validity."
- Peter Klatzow

"There are trivial people who think that playing the piano is about winning competitions. They should have taken up horse training."
- Peter Klatzow

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
- J.S. Bach

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
- Mark Twain.

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"
- Albert Einstein.

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits".
- Albert Einstein.

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
- Albert Einstein.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
- Albert Einstein.

'You may be a genius, but if you're not kind then nobody will like you.'
- Pieter Smal

"Observers likes to smile to each other"
- Pieter Smal

"As long as someone has a closed mind, he or she is unreachable and unteachable. A closed mind filters out and blocks off new or different ideas, information and beliefs. It uses hostility, prejudice, indifference and inattention to keep new or different ideas from gaining a foothold. A closed mind stands in the way of learning, change and progress; it is worse than illiteracy."
- Michael Cloud.

‎"There's something about men in our culture that says that everybody needs to be like John Wayne: You need to be tough, you need swagger, you don't want to kiss and love on em' boys cos you make them a sissy. And we don't want no sissy's in my house, we're gonna be tough! Stop that crying - You cry, I'll give you somethin' to cry for! We don't want no cryin'!
They want to make their boys tough and the sad part is that their little boys are not made that way. They're gonna be tough - trust me - the world is gonna toughen them up. What they need is some love and affection and men need to know how to feel affection from other men in a healthy way"
- Ricky Chelette.

"Just as faith is dead without works, love is dead without expression thereof"
- Andrew Chang.

"You can't just walk up to a fellow and say, 'Hey, you represent all the qualities of masculinity I've had a sexualized need to merge with. Wanna bond?'"
- Joe Dallas, Desires in Conflict.

"I have drunk every draft of pleasure and quaffed every cup of fame and yet I die of thirst."
- Lord Byron.

"Nothing in life can truly satisfy me except the Lord Jesus Christ"
- Anonymous.

[Unreal Arbiter]

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
- Albert Einstein.

"Theists like to take my quotes out of context and run with them" - Albert Einstein

[Sir-Ominous]