Over the years, I've collected a few quotes that I've found interesting. Some of them are from real people, others are from fiction, but for one reason or another I thought they were worth saving and here they are!
"You need not be afraid to walk in the dark, scary
woods...if you're the scariest thing in the woods"
My personal motto!
"Darkness is not the absence of light. Light is the absence of
darkness."
Unknown
"Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon"
Rorschach - "The Watchmen"
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Do you seriously think I'd explain my master stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting it's outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt) - "The Watchmen"
"Tis time to Act, Act! Act!
Not talk nor futile plan,
but swords unsheathe,
and war flames fan"
Unknown
"Men are not hung for stealing horses,
but that horse may not be stolen."
George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1635 -
1695)
"Nil illegitimae carborundum
(Don't let he bastards grind
you down.)"
Unknown
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called
cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
"It is profitable, if one is wise, to appear foolish."
Euripides
"That which doesn't kill me better leave me incapable of
returning fire."
Unknown
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for
those who have not!"
Unknown
"We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is
Futile."
Bill of Borg
"Bill Gates is a white persian cat and a monocle away from
being a villain in a James Bond movie."
Dennis Miller
"Happiness is being high on the food chain."
Unknown
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The
strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last
resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson
"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who
don't."
Unknown
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of
the lowest crime rates in the country."
Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am the Lone Locust of the Apocalypse
Think of me when you look to the night sky"
Zorak, Space Ghost’s evil band leader
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt (1899)
"No plan survives contact with the enemy."
Sun Tzu
"If it lasts that long!"
Unknown
"Make preparation in advance - you never have trouble if you
are prepared for it"
Theodore Roosevelt.
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax
collectors - and miss."
Robert H. Heinlein
"God and the soldier, we adore
In time of danger, not before;
The danger passed and all things righted,
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted"
Unknown
"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite
prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it."
Tom Lehrer
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human
freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy."
John Marshall
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied
males at least 17 years of age..."
TITLE 10, Section 311, Paragraph A, United States Code
"Natural laws have no pity."
Robert H. Heinlein
"I love natural selection!"
Bryan J. Gibbons
"Nine megs for the secretaries fair,
seven megs for the hackers scarce,
five megs for the grads in smoky lairs,
three megs for system source.
One disk to rule them all,
One disk to bind them,
One disk to hold the files
and in the darkness grind 'em."
Peter Nilsen
"I'd pick the .458 for its penetration [over the .22 squirt
gun]."
Wife of Michael Gross in the movie "Tremors"
"I know it's over, she told me to send her the HK-91."
Michael Gross in "Tremors 2"
"I defeated them with a combination of small arms fire and hand
to hand combat techniques."
Michael Gross in "Tremors 2"
"If you're going to string my friend up in front of your store,
you'd damned well better be armed."
Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven"
"This is my boom stick. $169.00, sporting goods. Shop smart.
Shop S-Mart"
Bruce Campbell, "Army of Darkness"
"If you're going to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez aka: The Ugly
"Vikings? There ain't no Vikings here. Just us honest farmers.
The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need those sheep anyway. That's
our story and we're sticking to it."
Unknown
"Kids, don't play with evil incarnate - someone will always get
hurt..."
Unknown
"When they came for the Fourth Amendment I didn't say anything
because I had nothing to hide.
When they came for the Second Amendment I didn't say anything because I wasn't a gun
owner.
When they came for the Fifth and Sixth Amendments I didn't say anything because I had
committed no crimes.
When they came for the First Amendment I *COULDN'T* say anything."
Unknown
"Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until
you can find a stick."
Unknown
"I want no prisoners. I want you to kill and burn, the more you
kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of
bearing arms against the United States.... Samar must be made a howling wilderness."
Brigadier General Jacob "Hell Roarin" Jake
"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
(If you can read this, you're overeducated.)"
Unknown
"Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell in such
a manner that they actually look forward to the trip."
Unknown
"When the Gamemaster smiles, it's already too late."
Unknown
"The strong are as naturally inclined to separate as the weak
are to congregate."
Nietzsche
"Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the
situation."
Unknown
"May you live in interesting times"
An ancient Chinese curse
"If you cant stand to lose, find something else to do."
The First Rule of Game Mastering
"Never give your NPC anything you don’t want your PCs to
have."
The Second Rule of Game Mastering
"I'd tell you what I think of you, but it would take words
larger than seven letters, and I doubt you'd get the insult."
Unknown
"Nietzsche Flakes! If they don't kill you, they'll make you
stronger!"
Unknown
"Knowledge is a three edged sword:
My side, your side, and the Truth."
Unknown
"Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone
else."
Unknown
"By the way, if you ever consider getting involved in any
area that requires knowledge of the symmetry of solids: just do yourself a favor and start
flipping burgers."
Greg Landrum
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
G. Gordon Liddy
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of
democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
Harry Lime, The Third Man
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the
little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its
path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
The Litany Against Fear, Dune
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made
out of meat?"
Greg Loftus
"That is not dead which can eternal lie;
And with strange eons even death may die."
H. P. Lovecraft
"A friend who used to work at a 'research lab' related a story
about a customer support line at 'company'. The support person said something on the order
of "You're not our only customer, you know," to which his reply was,
"Perhaps not, but we're one of the few with tactical nuclear weapons."
Unknown
"A pre-emptive retaliatory strike: get them back before they
get you in the first place."
Unknown
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
Unknown
"Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which,
unfortunately, no one we know belongs."
Unknown
"I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so
unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to
regulate everyone else's.
Unknown
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
Unknown
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that
genius has it's limits."
Unknown
"There is no substitute for good manners; except, perhaps, fast
reflexes."
Unknown
"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
Unknown English Professor
"God himself could not sink this ship."
Unknown RMS Titanic deck hand
"Your hatred is a gasping hollow chested cousin of real
hate. It lashes out weakly at anything that moves without focus or follow
through. It is a petty and small hate. You have a lot to learn about hate,
boy."
Chris Rapier
"Is that the one where they were swimming in scuba gear around
the hot water vents and the big tube worms were attacking them so G.I. Joe and Cobra
briefly teamed up to kill, maim, and destroy the life they did not understand but then
once the worms we re gone they went back to shooting at each other with color-coded laser
weapons that, even though these are the two most highly-funded armies in the world, have
yet to injure one human being?"
Adam Rixey
"That a majority should be able to compel others to live in
their kind of world is specifically what those who founded our country did not believe
in."
Herman Rubin
"Never send a Monster to do the work of an Evil
Scientist."
Unknown
"I can picture in my mind a world without war,
a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world,
because they'd never expect it."
Unknown
"Try looking into that place were you dare not look
– you’ll find me there, staring back at you!"
Paul "Muad'Dib"
Atreides, Dune
"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're
sober."
William Butler Yeats
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It
helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the
very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa
"Life is like a box of chocolates; You never know what you are going to
get, unless of course you read the label...."
Malcolm Chaddock
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
Winston Churchill
"Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of
taking pretty frequent holidays."
Aldous Huxley
"Only the shallow know themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
Philip K. Dick
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend
worth dying for."
Homer
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
Len Wein
"You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want,
when you want to do it. Don't plan anything, Just go out and do it."
Jack Kerouac
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of
evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to
have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
Terry Pratchett
"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
"I think someone's just had their
first taste of bloodlust!"
Homer Simpson
"It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them."
J.R.R Tolkien
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell
"The very powerful and the very
stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit
the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very
uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"
"Infidel defilers
They will all drown in lakes of blood.
Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark
Now they will learn why they fear the night."
Thulsa Doom, Conan the Barbarian
"You're here, so you have to destroy
something. Get with the program."
Mr. Boy
"Any personal problem can be solved
by the suitable application of explosives."
John Gnassi
“Remember that
Evil will always triumph over Good because Good is dumb.”
Dark Helmet, Spaceballs
“Fiat
justitia ruat coelum” (Let justice be done, though heaven should fall).
Lucius
Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (d. 43 B.C.)
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"Every time a system is made foolproof - a new class of fool emerges"
Unknown
"Someday, there won't be fighting, they'll put the
guns away.
Men will love each other, and join their hands to pray.
Peace will come
forever, men won't get shot and die---
And on that day, the pigs will spread their wings
and learn to fly."
Robert Frezza
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