What's your favorite Quote?

Inspired from the old retro-gaming thread...

Anything goes- movies, books, friends or famous figure.

try to specify who said it or where it's from

Here are some I live by...

  • "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". (Hanlon's razor)
  • "Don't feed the trolls". (everyone)
  • "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission." (grace hopper?)
  • "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." (Mark Twain, lincoln?)
some fun ones,..
  • "FIRE EVERYTHING!"
  • "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." ... "Nancy,if I were your husband, I’d drink it." (-(Churchill)
  • "No, Mr.Bond, I expect you to die." (Goldfinger)
  • "I'll be back" (who do you think?)

I'll post more if i remember them.

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg 

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision." - Ayn Rand (Don't much like her or Objectivism but I like this quote.)

"Love is like a flower; even the most beautiful kind dies." - Till Lindemann 

"I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London."- James Daly in the film I Aim at the Stars which was a biographical film chronicling the life of Wernher von Braun (The German Scientist who developed the V2 rocket and the Saturn V. Was the head of NASA.)

"There are two opinions in this world. Mine and the wrong one." -- Jeremy Clarkson 

"Bacon. The only known cure for vegetarianism"- Jeremy Clarkson. 

“This is a He-Man car. It is a brute. It is the kind of thing that would go out and punch a bear and eat a tractor for fun.”- Jeremy Clarkson on the Porsche 928. (I own a 928 and I agree.)  

I love Jeremy lol he is great. I'm sure I'll add more when I remember them.

Here's some Personal Favorites.

  • "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages - William Shakespeare (As you Like it)
  • “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ - Ghandi
  • "Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” - George Carlin
  •  there are 10 types of people, the ones who understand binary and the ones who don't (beats me)
  • Think how stupid the average person is, now realize that half of the people on this earth are stupider than that. (anon)

'Lupus In Fabula' (the wolf in the story)

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

I LOVE THIS ONE. (caps rage)

I've never heard it worded this way but the gist is true. I've tried to rationalize net neutrality in relation to our Rights to my sister and she doesn't care.

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance".

- Confucius

"There's never a shortage of idiots" -my mom

I tried to translate it to the best of my abilities as i'm norwegian as is my mom. and I feel she also said something along with it but I cant remember it now

"Logic is just a way of thinking you have been thaught" -me when i'm philosophical

"The only thing happiness does is run away" - me when i have a bad day

  • Those that matter, don't mind. Those that mind, don't matter.
  • Victory lies in the preparation of the non obvious.

 

My favourite is from David Gemmell books

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. Never back away from an enemy. Either fight or surrender. It is not enough to say I will not be evil. Evil must be fought wherever it is found.”

-The Iron Code of Shadak

Minuet to walk alongside nature.

Bolero to burn the beaten path.

Serenade to calm the storming sea.

Nocturne to awaken the shadow's wrath.

Requiem to quiet the wandering spirits.

Prelude to guide you to the light.

More of a poem. But meh. 

the entirety of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as one single qoute

you all can go home now

"Yeah.. well, that's just like your opinion, man." - His Dudeness

"LEMME SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH!", oh the number of times i have cried during this show...

why is it that something so tiny as a clitoris can destroy a mountain of a man

Clitoris Prime

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

- Albert Einstein

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

- George Carlin

Yea pretty much anything George Carlin is quote worthy.