Quotes

[Jebus]

I like most of the quotes from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, but these are a few of my favorites:

This one amuses me:

"We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?"

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED

"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
When I die, they will put my body in a box and
dispose of it in the cold ground.
And in all the million ages to come, I will never
breathe or laugh or twitch again.
So won't you run and play with me here among the
teeming mass of humanity?
The universe has spared us this moment."

Anonymous

"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

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The Father of Rocketry

"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"

"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."

Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

One more:

"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist."

Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"

Yeah, that game's full of good ones, and yes, some of those are from real people, but they're still good quotes.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass

An eye for an eye makes the world go blind.

Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you--this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate)--that's how difficult it is!

Before we begin to read the Ancient Mariner we know that the Polar Seas are not inhabited by spirits, and that if a man shoots an albatross he is not a criminal but a sportsman, and that if he stuffs the albatross afterwards he becomes a naturalist also. All this is common knowledge, but when we are reading the Ancient Mariner or remembering it intensely, common knowledge disappears and uncommon knowledge takes place. We have entered a universe that only answers to its own laws, supports itself, internally coheres, and has a new standard of truth

...but instead of promising eternity to each other at the start, we can arrive at eternity at the end.

[Nominus Experse]

God damn it... Jebus did what I was going to do...

[Fonzie]

One does not simply walk into Mordor. He dances.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

[PyroManiak]

Originally Bespoken by Doctor Seuss:
Always do what you want and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.


lol...yeh I definetely agree with him on that one...dam haters can go to hell...always hating on my pimp pants cuz i got style

[fire_of_avalon]

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It’s hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

Sometimes, the things we are most motivated about don't seem like choices when they really are.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

[Mitch]

It takes an idiot to do cool things. That's why it's cool.

[black orb]

You impertinent fools. I, Garland, shall knock you all down!

[Iceglow]

Death is lighter than a feather,
Duty heavier than a mountain.

The above quote is in the stories of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, although I have quoted it from a character who said it first I know that it is listed in the book "the world of Robert Jordan's the wheel of time" as a Saying in Shienar a country in it's world.

[Araciel]

see my sig. if you can guess who said it, i'll give you a cookie.

[Gabranth]

"A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde

i think he said this one too:

"Only dead fish swim with the stream."

[dodhungry]

I cant believe there is truely another person who enjoys the Dune saga as much as I do. However one quote that I like was missed:

If Fishes were wishes we would all cast nets.

-Dune


But my all time favorite quote comes from no other than a hobo who you meed in the computer game Baldur's Gate-its long but halarious.

"Insights? Um....Never take raisins from rabbits, never spit in a mans face unless his mostache is on fire, and dont take my wooden knickers unless you've a good supply of salve." Response: "I've just about had my FILL of riddle asking, question assigning, insult throwing, pun hurling, hosage talking, iron mangening, smart arsed fools, ficaks,and felons that continusly test my will, mettle, strength, intellegance, and most of all PATIENCE!! If you got a straight answer ANYWHERE in that bent littly head of yours, I want to hear it pretty da*n quick or I'm going to take a large blunt object roughly the size of Elminster AND his hat, and stuff it lenghtwise into a creivice of your being so seldom seen that even the denizes of the nine hells themselfs wouldn't touch it with a twenty foot rusty halberd. Have I made myself perfectly CLEAR!?"

and lastly

I just need to concentrate on milk.....no wait....Redbull

- Caboose from RvB

[Owen Macwere]

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

[No.78]

For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.

Holy crap Roto, never before had a day and a food ever become so muddled =/ *dies*