Quotes, sayings and wit

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Lain

"I am not a romantic. But even I will concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose of pumping blood.”
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey
My Heritage Is Rebellion.

Captain Maltese

- "I don't like it. He's unstable."
() - "I've bumped him up to sergeant and put him in the mission supply equipment section. What damage can he do there?"
- a really shady Aliens-based pocket book.

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Nico

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." - Isaac Asimov

Skadii

Don't make love by the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

Captain Maltese

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
- Winston Churchill

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Shekinah

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

Why don’t we drink to me and my reflection in your lovely eyes?

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Have you taken care of yourself today?

Captain Maltese

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
― Marquis de Sade

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WordSmith

If you're afraid don't do it; if you're doing it, don't be afraid -Genghis Khan

Captain Maltese

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- John A. Shedd

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Lain

Luck is not chance -
It’s Toil -
Fortune’s expensive smile
Is earned -
The Father of the Mine
Is that old-fashioned Coin
We spurned -

— Emily Dickinson
My Heritage Is Rebellion.

Nico

"Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile."

- Aristotle

domatt67

Chris Hadfield, retired astronaut, about the sense of wonder:

QuoteIf been around the world 2650 times or so and I never once could see enough of it.

During my first spacewalk, while I was outside in the dark,
we actually were far enough south that we went through the Earth's aurora.
It is so fantastically beautiful and such a raw, artistic human experience
to look at the northern lights is like magic.
To be in them to surf on them is beyond magic, it's surreal.

My last orbit of the world was even more rich and magnificent and awe-inspiring than all the ones before.
The unherolded beauty of our planet and of where it sits in the environment that we're in
is so constantly magnificent that when you looking at it, you talk in hushed tones.
Like you walked in a giant forest or the most beautiful cathedral on earth.
You don't talk in a big brassy voice there. You're referential of where you are.

Trilby

Stop worrying where you're going
Move on
If you can know where you're going
You've gone
Just keep moving on

I chose, and my world was shaken
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not
You have to move on

  -- Stephen Sondheim

Lain

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt
My Heritage Is Rebellion.

Flux

"Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve"
- Corey Taylor

gaggedLouise

"For whom am I speaking the Language of the Future?"

-the best literary book title I've seen in a long time, by one of the greatest living poets of this country. Göran Sonnevi is past eighty years old (born in 1939),  I've read him on and off since I was in my teens, and the other day spotted this new collection of poems at a book shop. Whether it will turn out to be the last book he publishes in his lifetime or not, it is a great way of stating that language, life and art are open-ended and ever new.  :-)

Good girl but bad  -- Proud sister of the amazing, blackberry-sweet Violet Girl

Sometimes bound and cuntrolled, sometimes free and easy 

"I'm a pretty good cook, I'm sitting on my groceries.
Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes"

RedRose

 just because you didn't forge a blade, that doesn't mean you can't wield it for your own ends
O/O and ideas - write if you'd be a good Aaron Warner (Juliette) [Shatter me], Tarkin (Leia), Wilkins (Faith) [Buffy the VS]
[what she reading: 50 TALES A YEAR]



Shekinah

The scars that you can’t see are the hardest to heal.

Why don’t we drink to me and my reflection in your lovely eyes?

My O/O's
Have you taken care of yourself today?

Silvered Sutures

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. -Marquis de Sade
My O/O Thread
Discord handle; Silvered Sutures

Shekinah

"Death no longer terrifies man, the smell of blood is as common as the smell of white plums. So, he creates slavery and savagery... which surpasses the horror of dying."

Why don’t we drink to me and my reflection in your lovely eyes?

My O/O's
Have you taken care of yourself today?