Answer with a quote

[RadiantMind]

So, simple game really. You comment on, or replies to what the person above you wrote with a quote you like, it may be from a book, a movie, song, speech as long as you write who said it.
I'll start

"I had to repeat myself when I told the deck officer to launch all fighters. I saw his face his face when he realized he was going to die. I saw he wanted to know why. We all do. We think it will matter, that knowing will grant us honor, that it will silence our futile bleating at the prospect of becoming nothing" - Grand Admiral Osvald Teshik, Star Wars: the essential guide to warfare

[Grainne]

"Rather, fail with honor than succeed by fraud."-Sophocles

[Beguile's Mistress]

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
― Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

[Zandra]

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[Lilias]

'Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.'
~William Shakespeare

[Zandra]

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

~ Confucius

[KaraKres]

“Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”

― Jackie Collins, Lucky

[Zandra]

Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.

~Bhartrihari (ca. 625)

[SaturnCeleste]

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-Winston Churchill-

[Ephemera]

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman

[master0rolando]

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Hunter S. Thompson

[KaraKres]

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

- Thomas Friedman

[DeamonAndae19]

"When at the gates of heaven
To saint Peter he shall tell.
'One more soldier reporting, Sir'
'I served My time, in hell'"

- Soldiers poem from WWII, poet unknown.

[KaraKres]

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty."

- General Douglas MacArthur

[DeamonAndae19]

"Duty and Slavery, what's the real difference, really, when you look at it, there really isn't one, if your duty is to do something for someone else, you're nothing more than a slave"

-Unknown.

[Elysium]

"Freedom isn't free"
~ Colonel Walter Hitchcock (USAF Retired) <or various song titles>

[Iuda]

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[EnglishMaster]

Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills).

Schopenhauer

[Mellific]

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -Mahatma Gandhi

[WildCat]

"Strength doesn't lie in numbers. Strength doesn't lie in wealth. Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumber." -The Sound of Music

[KaraKres]

"Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all."

- Cicero

[JinxedMinx]

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."

Mark Twain

[DutchSpawn]

"What the f*ck is a Obi? "

Jonas, Saw II

[YodaSan2]

"I'm too drunk to taste that chicken."
             -Will Farrell as Ricky Bobby 

[KaraKres]

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Groucho Marx


Wasn't sure how the "obi" and "chicken" quotes fitted in - so went with a response to Jinxed Minx's Twain quote.

[Love And Submission]

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
- John F. Kennedy

[gaggedLouise]

"In advertising there is no such thing as lies, there is only the art of expedient exaggeration."

-Roger Thornhill in North By Northwest.

[KaraKres]

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."

- George H. W. Bush

[Oniya]

*points both ways*  "Of course, some people do go both ways."

[The Scarecrow, from The Wizard of Oz]

[gaggedLouise]

"That's the way you do it! Money for nothing and chicks for free!"

-Mark Knopfler, lyrics to Money for Nothing (reputedly verbatim quote from  a customer in a tv shop)

[KaraKres]

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

- George Washington

[CraterLakeKing]

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius.

[KaraKres]

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."

- William Ellery Channing

[gaggedLouise]

"There are really only two people on this forum, Woland and me, as I am behind all the other active accounts and names engaged in discussion with him and with each other."

-posted at the forum/message board of a student fraternity I was with a couple years ago. In theory, anyone could post or register, even from an internet café in Africa; you didn't even need an account, and you never had to say who you were, not even privately to the moderator. Although no one was posting under their full name and many people had picked the cool nick, the real-life identities of many of the top posters were well known to many of the students, post-graduates and ex-active-but-still-posting members on the forum. "Woland" had been the chairman of the fraternity a few years before. So just theoretically, what the poster said could have been the truth...One face of internet dialogue.  ;)

[QuirkyFelicity]

"You can't really legislate the decisions that your heart makes. Better to be frowned upon and stay aline, than to be respectable and walking like the living dead." - Tom Hiddleston

[Elysium]

We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

- Ayn Rand

[QuirkyFelicity]

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them, all of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Hundred of them. Thousands, maybe."

-Neil Gaiman

[KaraKres]

"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought."

- Henry David Thoreau

[QuirkyFelicity]

“Our hyper-sexualized culture insists that everyone with a bond of any kind must surely be going at it, right? Shut the door and everyone’s clothes come off, that’s what people imagine. But that’s not how it is.”
-Quiet Man

[DiverseDesires]

“It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom.” Joan Rivers

[Elysium]

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

- C.S. Lewis

(Possibly one of my top fav. quotes  :-) )

[gaggedLouise]

"I don't have any friends anymore, I only have partners in crime. But their number keeps increasing, they are now one with the human race."

-Albert Camus, The Fall (a wonderfully zany quote, spoken or thought by a frantic character)

[KaraKres]

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."

- Winston Churchill

[UtterChaos]

`If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the notes on their vacancy signs. If there`s no one besides when your Soul embarks, I will follow you into the Dark.`
-Ben Gibbard, Death Cab for Cutie from the song Follow you into the Dark

[Love And Submission]

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
- Sting

[Event Horizon]

"I'm too old for this shit".

- Roger Murtaugh

[QuirkyFelicity]

"Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladle of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments."

-JR Ward

[Sylk]

"You have stumbled upon a tragic story Phillipe Gaston. And now you are caught up in it, with the rest of us."

Imperius to Phillipe (the mouse) in Ladyhawke regarding the discovery of the secret lives of Isabeau and Navaar

[mayovagn]

"Act," he enjoins her, "act, my lovely one. Act; you know by what means I may be drawn from this languid condition, I beg you to adopt them with all despatch, for I feel myself pressed mightily to proceed."

Marquis De Dade - 120 Days of Sodom

[Love And Submission]

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
- Marquis de Sade

[KaraKres]

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

- Washington Irving, The Sketch Book

[gaggedLouise]

"I was thrilled: finally I was worthy of being punished in stead of my adored sister."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Netotchka Nyezvanova (the narrator is a girl from a poor background who, after the death of her father, is taken up as a foster child by a wealthy family, whose daughter, same age as herself, she comes to love with a half erotic, masochist fervour)

[Angeliqua]

O, wicked love ... that has so many unnamed components.
                                                           Anne Rice - Beauty's Punishment

[The Last Standing]

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

-Woody Allen

[QuirkyFelicity]

"Everything's gotta end sometime, otherwise nothing would ever get started." -Doctor Who

[Caremejo]

“A friendship that can end never really began.” Publilius Syrus

[JinxedMinx]

"A friend to all is a friend to none."  - Aristotle

[Gizacall]

It isn't the coughin that carries you off, its the coffin they they carry you off in

Tuberculosis sufferer 1890

[Rozel]

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

[gaggedLouise]

"Family secrets are tyhe last ones you learn. By the trime you know, you're no longer their child."

-Joyce Carol Oates, Man Crazy (excellent book, everyone should read it)

[VenusEnvy]

"The greatest illusion in life is innocence." - Skyrim, the Dark Brotherhood

[Miss Lilly]

"All things truly wicked start with innocence." - Ernest Hemmingway.

[Songbird]

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." ~ William Shakespeare

[Endorphin]

"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" ~ Also Shakespeare

[LilyRoseBlack23]

"Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see. We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. [the starscape slowly transforms into The Starry Night] And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roar their light? Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes." ~Vincent Van Gogh in Doctor Who

[SapphireStar]

"Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try."

[RageOfTheTitan]

"The rule of all rules. The rule unwritten." The Unwritten rule which must be experienced before true understanding. Everything exists within us; your life is your own.

Richard Rahl in Confessor of The Sword of Truth books

[Love And Submission]

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

- Henry David Thoreau

[RageOfTheTitan]

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

[Love And Submission]

Tom Sawyer is overrated. - David L. Ulin

[RageOfTheTitan]

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Stephen Colbert

[Love And Submission]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uRBGFTHHg

And then there's this asshole  -  Penn Jillette

[RageOfTheTitan]

Otherwise, shoot this MotherF***** and let us take our fraternity of assassins to the heights reserved only for the gods of men!

-Morgan Freeman in Wanted
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