Post Your Favorite Quotes Thread

ITT we post quotes. Historical figures, contemporary thinkers, fictional characters, whatever you like.

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Originally Posted by George III

Some say concentrated power leads to abuse, but I believe that if an institution has a solid foundation it can survive the narrow aspirations of the people it employs.

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Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate

You can't take me, JC. I've seen your specs.

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Originally Posted by John Kerry

You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

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Originally Posted by Jaden Smith

See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your grasp.

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Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when a pool of their blood edges up too close.

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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Pinoccio was sch a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

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I see now the virture in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity.

Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum

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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

-Neil Gaiman

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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and lead out at him all at once.

-Neil Gaiman

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Like any normal fifth-grader, I preferred my villains to be evil andto stay that way, to atl ike Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

-David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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These are from writers. I'll do movies later :jess:

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Originally Posted by Mister Adequate

ITT we post quotes. Historical figures, contemporary thinkers, fictional characters, whatever you like.

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Originally Posted by George III

Some say concentrated power leads to abuse, but I believe that if an institution has a solid foundation it can survive the narrow aspirations of the people it employs.

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Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate

You can't take me, JC. I've seen your specs.

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Originally Posted by John Kerry

You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

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Originally Posted by Jaden Smith

See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your grasp.

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Originally Posted by Abraham Lincoln

This plague -- the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.

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Originally Posted by LeVar Burton

My vision is augmented.

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Originally Posted by Gabe Newell

A bomb!

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Originally Posted by Jimmy McShane

The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

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Originally Posted by Salmon P. Chase

Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.

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Originally Posted by Katy Perry

I never asked for this.

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Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

Already I'm more than human. Soon, I will be pure light! Pure energy! Helios and I! I will burn like the brightest star.

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Originally Posted by Sansa Stark

The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because humans themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes. An industrial age machine.

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Originally Posted by Jon Snow

When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror.

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Originally Posted by Peyton Manning, after Super Bowl XLVIII

What a shame.

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Originally Posted by Jack Reed

No, I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime.

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Originally Posted by Quark, quoting a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition

Engage only on your own terms.

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Originally Posted by Steve Causer-Smith

Here I stand upon the brink of the fiery malestrom and I gaze down into the hellacious fruit of my long years of labour. My heart sings along with the agonising last breaths of the tortured choir that now forms humanity; in whatever brief moments remain to these wretches they will know me as God, The Destroyer of Worlds and the King of Eternity. And how they kneel. And how they burn. Yeah yeah.

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Originally Posted by Huxley Vannevar Hobbes

There is nothing that shocks the system and jolts the mind into action quite like catching one of your own trumpets in an empty marmelade jar and inhaling all of its glory in one swift breath.

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Originally Posted by Jamie Oliver

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?

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Originally Posted by Stanton Dowd, Deus Ex

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

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Originally Posted by Luminous Path Triad Member, Deus Ex

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone's right to be different, to be special, to think, feel, and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to those peculiarities.

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Originally Posted by Smuggler, Deus Ex

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS81SCTw1JE

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Originally Posted by Tywin Lannister

Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king. I'll make sure you understand that when I've won your war for you.

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I was going to post more, but I'm tired. Tywin will be more than sufficient :mymelbert:

I won't list who the quotes are from because a lot of them, I don't know, and some of them are from the same person in books they've written or what have you.

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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This one is obvious.

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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I think this is a good one to remind myself that I would rather be a good person and be happy with who I am than to just be a successful person.

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It's okay to be angry with God.

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This one has helped me a lot in my faith in viewing my relationship in God as a relationship and not as me worshiping some identity I'll never know.

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A writer is someone who writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

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This not necessarily for just writing, but for going after my goals and not letting excuses get in the way.

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No matter how good or bad a situation is, it will change.

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A good one for getting through the hard times

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No matter where you go, you will always be there.

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A reminder that running away won't always fix our problems.

And of course, from the Bible:

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By contrast, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The is no law against such things. [...] Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.

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Originally Posted by Descendents

You can only be the victim if you admit defeat.

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Originally Posted by C.S. Lewis

[It is ridiculous] to be concerned about being grown up [and] to admire the grown up because it is grown up.

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Originally Posted by Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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Originally Posted by Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

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Originally Posted by Soren Kierkegaard

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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Originally Posted by H.P. Lovecraft

What do we know... of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble sense we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

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Originally Posted by C.S. Lewis

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Every victory we seemed to win has led us, step by step, to this conclusion. All Nature's apparent reverses have been but tactical withdrawals. We thought we were beating her back when she was luring us on. What looked to us like hands held up in surrender was really the opening of arms to enfold us forever.

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That last one is so good I wrote "holy trout" in the margins when I first read it. Quite possibly my favourite quote.

This thread has a distinct lack of Blasphemy.