Quotes

[Abishai]

I know that some of you, like mysef, are fond of using quotes. So, here's someplace to post them.


Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-Samuel Butler

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- Jacob Bronowski

All your mental armour drags me down, nothing hurts like your mouth.
-Bush (the band)

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-Sylvia Plath

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

[bethel]

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." -Iris Murdoch

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. " -Sir Winston Churchill

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. "
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. "
Benjamin Disraeli

[Abishai]

I am the shadow on the moon at night,
filling your dreams to the brim with fright
~ The Nightmare Before Christmas ~


There are thorns everywhere,
but along the path of vice,
roses bloom above them
~ Marquis DeSade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire;
when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. Miserable
creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this
little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock
should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you,
mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
~ Marquis DeSade ~


As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~


Consider the problem from the point of view of evil,
evil being almost always pleasure's true & major charm;
considered thus, the crime must appear greater when
perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than
when inflicted upon one which is not, & this once
established, the delight automatically doubles
~ Marquis de Sade ~

I can see inside you
the sickness is rising
Don't try to deny
what you feel
It seems that all
that was good has died
And is decaying in me
~ Disturbed ~

Do I look like someone who
cares what God thinks?
~ Pinhead ~

He that fights with monsters should look
to himself, that he does not become a monster
~ Nietzche ~

All of us are travelers lost,
our tickets arranged at a cost
unknown but beyond our means.
This odd itinerary of scenes
- enigmatic, strange, unreal -
leaves us unsure how to feel.
No postmortem journey is rife
with more mystery than life
~ The Book of Counted Sorrows ~

[Cobra5]

We had a quote thread once before. It might be archived, I'm not sure....

[Abishai]

Well damn it, I didn't recall seeing it.

[BugHunter]

It was before your time here. I think i was the one who created that old one.

[alys]

I'm sad! I can't find any of my quote lists.... So here's what I care to share off the top of my head and some quotes from my favourite author...

Momma took me aside/And she tried to change my mind/She said, 'Don't waste your time in lookin'/There's nothin', nothin' left to find...' - Pensacola by Joan Osborne

You know, taken out of context I must seem so strange... And, oh, how I miss... Walking up to the edge and jumping in like I could feel the future on your skin. - Fire Door by Ani DiFranco

And, both hands/Please use both hands/Oh, no, don't close your eyes./I am writing/Grafitti on your body/I am drawing the story of/How hard we tried. - Both Hands by Ani DiFranco

'Tourist,' Rincewind decided, meant 'idiot.' - Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'." - Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed. - Mort by Terry Pratchett

There were a few seconds of total silence as everyone waited to see what would happen next. And then Nijel uttered the battle cry that Rincewind would never quite forget to the end of his life. "Erm," he said, "excuse me..." - Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

The subject of wizards and sex is a complicated one, but as has already been indicated it does, in essence, boil down to this: when it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. - Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE." - Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

And of course, the three quotes I've used as my sig, so far....

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Sado like a masochist." - Beat Me by Custom

They didn't say much. They just laughed a lot. They were merry folk, especially when they were twisting your arm to see how far it could go. - Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

Speaking of my sig, it's about time to find a new one.... Ooo, project!

[Cobra5]

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts."
- Winston Churchill

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God
that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere."
- Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes
longer."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we
fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
- General George S. Patton

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death
but once."
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
- Andre Maurois

"I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
- Einstein

"Most people are on the world, not in it--having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
- John Muir

I bet nobodies even reading all of these things I really like that last one... I think it really defines my veiw of people in general.

[BugHunter]

Dude, did you get a bunch of those quotes in Call of Duty? Well i guess a bunch of war games would have them listed.

[Cobra5]

Operation Flashpoint also had a bunch of quotes for when you die, but its really hard to find a list of them for some reason.

[Abishai]

". . . from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"There is no wealth," she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, "that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I have weighed them; and I will be true to what I undertake."
-Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"
-Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

[Deimos]

I don't have my quote list as I post...so i'll just put them down as I remember them...

for now:

"EVERYONE can be SUPER, and when everybody is super...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...no one will be" -Buddy Pine/Syndrome, the Incredibles

"Could we, just for once, die without all this bickering!?"
Joe Sullivan/SkyCaptain, SkyCaptain and the World of Tomorrow

"i'm only an elected official, I can't do this by myself!"- the Mayor, The Nightmare Before Christmas

"Clifford, when your borrow somethin', you don't tell nobody, they call that stealing you know"- Peevy, The Rocketeer


well...they all turned out to be movie quotes...heh...i'll put up different ones next time

[alys]

And, now, for my random quotes that I can't remember where they came from!!! List.

"You may be cute, but I still know you're the spawn of Satan." - I don't recall....

"I want to go out in a blinding flash of sugar and caffeine!" - Someone from CON

"Twice in the head; know they're dead." - Bethel's Dad, and probably numerous people before that.

"There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said, no. But, we missed it, somehow. Oh, well. We'll do better next time. Now you see me, now you--" - Some book I read once

And, now, some quotes from one of my favourite artists.... Poe!

"You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being." Trigger-Happy Jack (Drive-By-A-Go-Go) by Poe

"... I called my mother; I said 'hi'. What I meant to say was... 'Why is your life a joke?'" That Day by Poe

"Mothers are trails of stars in the night.... Fathers are black holes that suck up the light." Hello by Poe

"I'm not a virgin, anymore/Just thought you should know!/Before you let another lie get through those crooked little teeth/I don't think you wanna start that shit with me./Much better yet, oh, tell me something dangerous and true./Oh, yeah, that looks much sexier on you." Not a Virgin by Poe

"But there's more to this story than I've been letting on/There are words meaning little unwritten in this/I forgive you for leading me on." Five and a Half Minute Hallway by Poe

[Deimos]

cool, here's my own list...although...actually, they're listed as 'anon'

so, here's my anonymous quote list
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"Be weary of the person with nothing to lose"

"Avoid physical confrontations...but if you have no other choice, strike first and strike hard"

"A fool starts a fight, but its the greater fool who bothers to return the favor"

"NEVER tell a car salesman how much you want to spend"

"Be willing to swap a temporary inconvenience for a permanent improvement"

"Exercise caution the first day you buy a chain saw. You'll be tempted to cut down everything in the neighborhood"

"never keep a free ride waiting"

I don't necessarily follow all of those, I just like them...i've got a few more coming when I get it all back

[Cobra5]

"You can trust a liar to lie. Its the honest ones you have to look out for."