"Define 'interesting.'" "Oh, god; oh, god, we're all going to die?"
-Malcolm Reynolds to Hoban Washburne, Serenity (2005)
-Malcolm Reynolds to Hoban Washburne, Serenity (2005)
Quotes from fictional characters that made you stop and think or have stuck with you.
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Lot of things from Doctor Who (especially David Tennant's run) have stuck in my head.
"Headmaster Rocastle: You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?
Baines (Son of Mine): We are the Family of Blood.
Headmaster Rocastle: Mr. Smith said there had been deaths.
Baines (Son of Mine): Yes, sir! And they were good, sir!
Headmaster Rocastle: Well, I warn you, the school is armed.
Baines (Son of Mine): All your little tin soldiers. But tell me, sir, will they thank you?
Headmaster: I don't understand.
Baines (Son of Mine): What do you know of history? What do you know of next year?
Headmaster: You're not making sense.
Baines (Son of Mine): 1914, sir. Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and, oh, the things we have seen! War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?!"
Baines (Son of Mine): We are the Family of Blood.
Headmaster Rocastle: Mr. Smith said there had been deaths.
Baines (Son of Mine): Yes, sir! And they were good, sir!
Headmaster Rocastle: Well, I warn you, the school is armed.
Baines (Son of Mine): All your little tin soldiers. But tell me, sir, will they thank you?
Headmaster: I don't understand.
Baines (Son of Mine): What do you know of history? What do you know of next year?
Headmaster: You're not making sense.
Baines (Son of Mine): 1914, sir. Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and, oh, the things we have seen! War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?!"
"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, "Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it." But the truth is: the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."
Kathy Nightingale: Why did you come here anyway?
Sally Sparrow: I love old things. They make me feel sad.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Sally Sparrow: I love old things. They make me feel sad.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it...I am definitely a madman with a box.
'I'M COVERED IN BEES!'
'My father was a bee keeper, like his father before him, and I want to walk in their footsteps and their footsteps went like this. I'M COVERED IN BEES!'
'I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.'
'I like my coffee like I like my women. COVERED IN BEES!'
Captcha - hugger-mugger
Didn't Cameron advise us to do that back in 2010? How'd that work out Dave?
'My father was a bee keeper, like his father before him, and I want to walk in their footsteps and their footsteps went like this. I'M COVERED IN BEES!'
'I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.'
'I like my coffee like I like my women. COVERED IN BEES!'
Captcha - hugger-mugger
Didn't Cameron advise us to do that back in 2010? How'd that work out Dave?
"I imagine I'll die quite soon. It's strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody.
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one.
An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. "
-Valerie - V For Vendetta
The whole letter is chilling, and beautifully written, but that bit right there at the end always gives me goosebumps.
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one.
An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. "
-Valerie - V For Vendetta
The whole letter is chilling, and beautifully written, but that bit right there at the end always gives me goosebumps.
"When are you people going to realize? I'm not stuck in here with you, YOU ARE STUCK IN HERE WITH ME!"
"I...am Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to god.
No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.
I...rejected these answers. Instead I chose something different, I chose the impossible, I chose...Rapture."
No gods or kings, only man. -Andrew Ryan
"In what country is there a place for people like me"-Andrew Ryan
"I'm a dishonest man. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you've got to watch out for because you can never tell when they'll do something completely stupid." -Jack Sparrow
"What is the Truth?"
"We see the world for what it truly is, and hope that, one day, mankind might see the same."
"What is the World then?"
"An illusion, one which we can submit to, as most do, or transcend."
"What is it to transcend?"
"To recognize nothing is true, and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity but from reason."
-Dialogue between Altair and Al'Mualim
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to god.
No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.
I...rejected these answers. Instead I chose something different, I chose the impossible, I chose...Rapture."
No gods or kings, only man. -Andrew Ryan
"In what country is there a place for people like me"-Andrew Ryan
"I'm a dishonest man. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you've got to watch out for because you can never tell when they'll do something completely stupid." -Jack Sparrow
"What is the Truth?"
"We see the world for what it truly is, and hope that, one day, mankind might see the same."
"What is the World then?"
"An illusion, one which we can submit to, as most do, or transcend."
"What is it to transcend?"
"To recognize nothing is true, and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity but from reason."
-Dialogue between Altair and Al'Mualim
Not really a quote, but a speel from Fahrenheit 451.
This really disturbed me, as this book was written about 60 years ago.
Also, as someone else said:
MAJOR BIOSHOCK SPOILERS
"Picture it. Nineteenth century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids.
Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs. Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: 'now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours.' Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or
more."
Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs. Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: 'now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours.' Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or
more."
Oh, and you can't beat AM's Hate Speech. Thanks for posting that, for some reason that didn't come to mind.Chiasm said:
Also, as someone else said:
MAJOR BIOSHOCK SPOILERS
Joker: "How do you know when a Turian is out of ammo?"
Garrus: "He switches to the stick up his ass as a backup weapon."
I lol'd. I seriously lol'd.
Garrus: "He switches to the stick up his ass as a backup weapon."
I lol'd. I seriously lol'd.
"Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten wrong"
--Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 2/3
"Church, do you ever wonder why we're here?"
"You know Caboose, I used to not care. I just went along with orders and hoped everything would work out for me. But after all that's happened, do you know what I've learned? It's not about hating the guy on the other side because someone told you to. I mean, you should hate someone because they're an asshole, or a pervert, or a snob, or they're lazy, or arrogant, or an idiot, or a know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to, you have learn to despise people on a personal level. Not because they're red or because they're blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking douche bag."
--Caboose and Church (Red vs. Blue Episode 100)
"A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there, but it's just out of your reach, it can be all you think about. You can focus on it and try to force it, but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and you hold still, well maybe, just maybe, it'll come to you."
--Church (Red vs. Blue Revelation Episode 20)
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the rocket propulsion test chamber!"
--Gordan Freeman (Freeman's Mind Episode 19)
"Remember Billy, you must never put your ring on, or Ring Wraiths will come and stab you to death with knives, pointy knives, that burn with the fires of a thousand evils"
"Coooool!"
--One Ring to Rule Them All 2
"I like all religions. If you have a problem in your life and you just deal with it using religion, that's fine. I use Google, but whatever you need."
--Simon Amstell(Never Mind the Buzzcocks) - I guess technically that isn't fictional, but it's from a TV show so I'm going to count it.
--Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 2/3
"Church, do you ever wonder why we're here?"
"You know Caboose, I used to not care. I just went along with orders and hoped everything would work out for me. But after all that's happened, do you know what I've learned? It's not about hating the guy on the other side because someone told you to. I mean, you should hate someone because they're an asshole, or a pervert, or a snob, or they're lazy, or arrogant, or an idiot, or a know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to, you have learn to despise people on a personal level. Not because they're red or because they're blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking douche bag."
--Caboose and Church (Red vs. Blue Episode 100)
"A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there, but it's just out of your reach, it can be all you think about. You can focus on it and try to force it, but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and you hold still, well maybe, just maybe, it'll come to you."
--Church (Red vs. Blue Revelation Episode 20)
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the rocket propulsion test chamber!"
--Gordan Freeman (Freeman's Mind Episode 19)
"Remember Billy, you must never put your ring on, or Ring Wraiths will come and stab you to death with knives, pointy knives, that burn with the fires of a thousand evils"
"Coooool!"
--One Ring to Rule Them All 2
"I like all religions. If you have a problem in your life and you just deal with it using religion, that's fine. I use Google, but whatever you need."
--Simon Amstell(Never Mind the Buzzcocks) - I guess technically that isn't fictional, but it's from a TV show so I'm going to count it.
"Friends who wanna stay friends don't discuss two things: politics, and religion."- Cole Phelps
My life has been much better since I started putting this one into action.
My life has been much better since I started putting this one into action.
This is actually fairly recent, as in last week recent, was watching OMFGCATA's playthrough of the Pandaren starting zone in the mists of pandaria beta when they read out this line from the quest text (to the best of my knowledge as the youtube video was in low quality so I couldn't read the text myself, curse my bad net connection)
"We do not live to find ourselves, we live to create ourselves"
I paused the video and sat there for a good 15 minites, its something I'd never thought of before.
So often in life we think about what we should be, who we should be, society is all about finding ourselves. People worry about fate, about destiny, about who they should be, finding who they are. Lord knows I've fallen into those traps myself but that... that threw me for a loop.
It said to me I shouldn't be hunting for myself, he isn't out there, I'm here, now, I'm me and everything I do is creating me, not meeting some predetermined man I'm supposed to be, there is no set fate. I am what I make myself, what life I choose to create for myself.
So thank you random Pandaren NPC quest giver for giving me that to think on and a rather refreshing sense of freedom and control over my life.
"We do not live to find ourselves, we live to create ourselves"
I paused the video and sat there for a good 15 minites, its something I'd never thought of before.
So often in life we think about what we should be, who we should be, society is all about finding ourselves. People worry about fate, about destiny, about who they should be, finding who they are. Lord knows I've fallen into those traps myself but that... that threw me for a loop.
It said to me I shouldn't be hunting for myself, he isn't out there, I'm here, now, I'm me and everything I do is creating me, not meeting some predetermined man I'm supposed to be, there is no set fate. I am what I make myself, what life I choose to create for myself.
So thank you random Pandaren NPC quest giver for giving me that to think on and a rather refreshing sense of freedom and control over my life.
I think this is close: "It only takes one candle to light a fire, and then the darkness is gone."Wenseph said:
OT:
In war, victory.
In peace, vigilance.
In death, sacrifice.
-Grey Wardens, Dragon Age
"I only have two rules. The first rule is to never kill someone without a reason."
"And the second rule?"
"You can always find a reason to kill someone.
-Saren and David Anderson, one of the Mass Effect novels.
EDIT: Definitely paraphrased:
"The worst insult an enemy can suffer is to be ignored."
-Warlord Okeer, Mass Effect 2
"None of us are the heroes we're supposed to be."
~Link, There Will Be Brawl
"I'm not a hero. Heroes let people down."
~Megaman, Captain SNES (later echoed by Alex)
"A man chooses. A slave obeys. Are you a man, or a slave?"
~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
"Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly with forgiveness. By forgiving them too readily, we can be badly hurt. But if we've learned from a mistake and became better for it, shouldn't we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for the mistake?"
~Narration, Braid
~Link, There Will Be Brawl
"I'm not a hero. Heroes let people down."
~Megaman, Captain SNES (later echoed by Alex)
"A man chooses. A slave obeys. Are you a man, or a slave?"
~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
"Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly with forgiveness. By forgiving them too readily, we can be badly hurt. But if we've learned from a mistake and became better for it, shouldn't we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for the mistake?"
~Narration, Braid
Literally everything from Alpha Centauri.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
In particular:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
-Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.
-CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
To understand a thing is to know the manner by which it might be destroyed. A fundamental understanding of the basic building-blocks of the Universe is essential, then, to the total destruction of everything.
-Foreman Domai, "One Tool, One Thought"
Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? The fundamental principle of human consciousness.
-Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "The Feedback Principle"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
In particular:
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
-Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.
-CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
To understand a thing is to know the manner by which it might be destroyed. A fundamental understanding of the basic building-blocks of the Universe is essential, then, to the total destruction of everything.
-Foreman Domai, "One Tool, One Thought"
Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? The fundamental principle of human consciousness.
-Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "The Feedback Principle"
"Go to the graves of a thousand dead soldiers and ask them if honour matters. Their silence will be your answer."
- Javik; Mass Effect 3
That really hit me. I mean, honour is great and all, but dead is dead.
"There are no men like me, only me."
- Jaime Lannister; A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones
I just like the quote. I mean, there is only you. No one is exactly like you. There are people who are similar to you, but in the end, there's only you.
"Everyone's gonna die, its a natural part of life...but if life's has no purpose you're dead already."
- Kiba: Wolf's Rain
Probably one of my many favourite quotes from the show. Such a beautifully sad anime D:
- Javik; Mass Effect 3
That really hit me. I mean, honour is great and all, but dead is dead.
"There are no men like me, only me."
- Jaime Lannister; A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones
I just like the quote. I mean, there is only you. No one is exactly like you. There are people who are similar to you, but in the end, there's only you.
"Everyone's gonna die, its a natural part of life...but if life's has no purpose you're dead already."
- Kiba: Wolf's Rain
Probably one of my many favourite quotes from the show. Such a beautifully sad anime D:
The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed. The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate...Entrusting his future to the cards, man clings to a dim hope. Yet, the Arcana is the means by which all is revealed... Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are...Death awaits you."
~Nyx, Persona 3.
Knowledge of the truth is not everything. Yet drunk with truth, you exceeded your role and became too involved... Now, learn for yourselves whose wrath you have brought down!
~Izanami, Persona 4
Yeah, r.i.p.
~Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human revolution
That's all I got for philosophical stuff.
~Nyx, Persona 3.
Knowledge of the truth is not everything. Yet drunk with truth, you exceeded your role and became too involved... Now, learn for yourselves whose wrath you have brought down!
~Izanami, Persona 4
Yeah, r.i.p.
~Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human revolution
That's all I got for philosophical stuff.
