Post Your Favorite Quotes Thread

[Madame Adequate]

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

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.

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

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

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

[Alive-Cat]

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around

[Shorty]

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are from writers. I'll do movies later

[Pike]

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My vision is augmented.

A bomb!

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

[Madame Adequate]

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.

I never asked for this.

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

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.

[Pike]

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

What a shame.

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

Engage only on your own terms.

[Psychotic]

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.

[DK]

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.

[Madame Adequate]

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?

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.

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.

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

[Crop]

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

[Ayen]

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.

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

[Pumpkin]

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.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

This one is obvious.

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

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.

It's okay to be angry with God.

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.

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

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

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

A good one for getting through the hard times

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

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

And of course, from the Bible:

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.

[Alive-Cat]

You can only be the victim if you admit defeat.

[Kalevala]

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

[NeoCracker]

This thread has a distinct lack of Blasphemy.