Best Quotes

[Glongpre]

?A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.?
― George R.R. Martin

?Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.?
― George R.R. Martin

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
-Charles Dickens

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live
-Martin Luther King Jr

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
-Ethel Barrymore

Be as you wish to seem.
-Socrates

Frodo ? ?I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf - "So do all who come to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us.?
-Tolkien

Sovereigns speech in Mass Effect has a couple good ones
-We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.
-Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
-Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.
-Your words are as empty as your future.

Walt Kowalski: Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me.
Walt Kowalski: Oh, I've got one. A Mexican, a Jew, and a colored guy go into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck out of here."
-Gran Torino

There are a bunch I can't remember. God I love a good quote.

 

[Peterpan]

"Nobody ever plans to be killed" - Halt.

 

[Queen Michael]

Tallyho, Tallyho, jag har skjutit en dront,
en dront har jag skjutit med luntlåsgevär,
då solen rann ned mot en blek horisont
och havet låg blankt mellan öar och skär.

First stanza of the best poem I ever read. Don't bother Google translating it if you don't speak Swedish, though. The best poems can't be translated.

 

[Tono Makt]

"We've been through so much together... and most of it was your fault."
-Ashleigh Brilliant

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I don't remember how the whole monologue went exactly, but John the Savage in Brave New World makes a lengthy complaint to Mustapha Mond about how humanity has been lulled into the comformism of a randomly-generated caste system, and he demands the right to misery and all the negative drawbacks of humanity that has been artificially erased from society. Mond just shrugs and says "You're welcome". Which goes to show that as long as we can get frustrated and restless with our reality, we're still human.