Quotes from fictional characters that made you stop and think or have stuck with you.
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One that always makes me laugh, the head of EPA from the Simpsons movie:
Underling: "Sir, you've gone mad with power!"
Russ Cargill: "Of course I have! Have you ever tried going mad without power? Its boring, no one listens to you".
And words to live by:
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: [RE: What they found on Miranda] This record here's about twelve years old. Parliament buried it and it stayed buried until River here dug it up. This is what they were afraid she knew. And they were right to fear. There's a universe of folk who're gonna know it, too. Someone *has to* speak for these people.
[pause]
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
Always sends a shiver when I hear Mal say this.
Underling: "Sir, you've gone mad with power!"
Russ Cargill: "Of course I have! Have you ever tried going mad without power? Its boring, no one listens to you".
And words to live by:
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: [RE: What they found on Miranda] This record here's about twelve years old. Parliament buried it and it stayed buried until River here dug it up. This is what they were afraid she knew. And they were right to fear. There's a universe of folk who're gonna know it, too. Someone *has to* speak for these people.
[pause]
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
Always sends a shiver when I hear Mal say this.
"They are eating her... and then they're going to eat me... oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."
"What you speak of is treason" - Ned stark
"Only if we lose" - Petyr Baelish
Dont know if he said those exact words in the book, but they said them in the series and it was probably one of my favourite scenes from the first series of game of thrones from one of the very best schemers I have ever seen created in a work of fiction.
"Only if we lose" - Petyr Baelish
Dont know if he said those exact words in the book, but they said them in the series and it was probably one of my favourite scenes from the first series of game of thrones from one of the very best schemers I have ever seen created in a work of fiction.
I've read through the first 2 pages and no one has said, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Solf J Kimblee was always my favorite philosophical waxer.
Kimblee: In my view, you are the ones that I can't understand.
To seek for justice in a special place like a battlefield is what's strange.
Is it heretical to kill with alchemy?
Is it better to kill with a gun?
Or is it that you were prepared to kill one or two, but can't bear killing thousands?
When you wore this of your own will, weren't you already prepared?
If you don't like it, you shouldn't have worn it in the first place. You moved forward onto this path on your own, why are you playing the victim now?
If you're going to take pity on yourself, don't kill people in the first place.
Don't avert your eyes away from death.
Look forward.
Look at the people you're killing in the face.
And don't forget them.
Don't forget.
Don't forget.
They won't forget you either.
Kimblee: In my view, you are the ones that I can't understand.
To seek for justice in a special place like a battlefield is what's strange.
Is it heretical to kill with alchemy?
Is it better to kill with a gun?
Or is it that you were prepared to kill one or two, but can't bear killing thousands?
When you wore this of your own will, weren't you already prepared?
If you don't like it, you shouldn't have worn it in the first place. You moved forward onto this path on your own, why are you playing the victim now?
If you're going to take pity on yourself, don't kill people in the first place.
Don't avert your eyes away from death.
Look forward.
Look at the people you're killing in the face.
And don't forget them.
Don't forget.
Don't forget.
They won't forget you either.
"I too once felt the feelings that you carry now. I questioned the things whose true forms are invisible. But when all was said and done, all I was left with was nothingness and disgust. And to that disgust we all carry I simply say: Not I" - Dr. Zorndyke.
The above quote is a commentary on the pointlessness of hatred and vengeance. It is a rejection of those petty sentiments that cause us to say and do things that harm others for no reason or profit.
The above quote is a commentary on the pointlessness of hatred and vengeance. It is a rejection of those petty sentiments that cause us to say and do things that harm others for no reason or profit.
No, you must continue. Here, let me help you with one of my favorites:That Guy Ya Know said:
"The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say 'It cannot be done.'"
- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, University Commencement
"And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?" - The Puppetmaster Ghost in the Shell
"Once they figure a way to work a dead horse, we'll be next. Likely I'll be the first too. 'Edd,' they'll say, 'dying's no excuse for laying down no more, so get on up and take this spear, you've got first watch tonight.' Well, I shouldn't be so gloomy. Might be I'll die before they work it out." - Dolorous Edd from A song of Ice and Fire.
"How come I never make friends like that?"
"You need to get out more."
"We're in another galaxy. How much more out can you get?" - McKay and Beckett from SGA.
"How come I never make friends like that?"
"You need to get out more."
"We're in another galaxy. How much more out can you get?" - McKay and Beckett from SGA.
"I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward."
"People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot."
"I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come. Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope..."
Nana is awesome.
"People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot."
"I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come. Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope..."
Nana is awesome.
If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me.
- The Nameless One.
"You were deafened."
"At last you could hear..."
"You were broken."
"You were whole..."
"You were blinded."
"And at last....you saw..."
- From KoTOR II
- The Nameless One.
"You were deafened."
"At last you could hear..."
"You were broken."
"You were whole..."
"You were blinded."
"And at last....you saw..."
- From KoTOR II
bastard: never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you. - Tyrion Lannister
It was worded even better in the book I believe, it struck me in each regardless and is wonderfully worded in each format
It was worded even better in the book I believe, it struck me in each regardless and is wonderfully worded in each format
"Life is a negotiation. We all give, to get what we want." - Mordin Solus (read rapidly with nasal tone), ME2.
"I cant believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship with the universe at large, because they seem to be too connected, too local, too... provincial. One of the aspects of God came to the earth, THE EARTH mind you, and then look at whats out there. it just... just isn't in proportion." - Richard Feynman, physicist.
The last one i remember somewhat, so i watched the video where i first heard it again,great vid on youtube "THE FEYNMAN SERIES (part 1) - Beauty", quote is actually from an interview with the man in 70s or something.
"I cant believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship with the universe at large, because they seem to be too connected, too local, too... provincial. One of the aspects of God came to the earth, THE EARTH mind you, and then look at whats out there. it just... just isn't in proportion." - Richard Feynman, physicist.
The last one i remember somewhat, so i watched the video where i first heard it again,great vid on youtube "THE FEYNMAN SERIES (part 1) - Beauty", quote is actually from an interview with the man in 70s or something.
If you cannot defeat your enemy with the weapon you do have, then imagine one with which you could.
- Archer from Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)
I love this quote because, while it has a direct meaning in context, you can apply it to pretty much any situation and I think it still has something important to say.
- Archer from Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)
I love this quote because, while it has a direct meaning in context, you can apply it to pretty much any situation and I think it still has something important to say.