Greatest Quotes Ever
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'We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'
You have enemies? Good. That means you?ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill. That guy is a genius.
You have enemies? Good. That means you?ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill. That guy is a genius.
"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man - some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive - than to rule down here over all the breathless dead."
-Achilles, from Homer's 'The Odyssey'
-Achilles, from Homer's 'The Odyssey'
John: I DON'T WANT TO BE HUMAN! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays, and I -- I want to -- I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to -- I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine, and I could know much more, I could experience so much more, BUT I'M TRAPPED IN THIS ABSURD BODY! AND WHY? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!
John Cavil, "No Exit".
John Cavil, "No Exit".
get ready for it... my favorite quotes of all time
"Except for slavery, Nazism, communism and fascism war has never solved anything."
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"Vote democrat, it's easier than thinking"
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"Criminals prefer unarmed victims"
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1859), p. 376.
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We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff
during the assault on Grenada, 1983
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams
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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!" Major Holdredge.
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"Guns kill people...like how spoons made Rosie'O Donnle fat.
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler,1935
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When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written
the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22
enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty
ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the
process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.
"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they
will be there in the morning."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
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SECRETARY of State Colin Powell put an Iraqi reporter in
his place the other day. The scribe tried to sandbag the statesman by
asking, "Isn't it true that only 13 percent of young Americans can locate Iraq
on a map?" "That may be true," Powell snapped. "You're probably right.
But, unfortunately for you, all 13 percent are Marines."
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Bachmann: I might have slightly doomed us all
"Except for slavery, Nazism, communism and fascism war has never solved anything."
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"Vote democrat, it's easier than thinking"
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"Criminals prefer unarmed victims"
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1859), p. 376.
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We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff
during the assault on Grenada, 1983
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams
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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!" Major Holdredge.
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"Guns kill people...like how spoons made Rosie'O Donnle fat.
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler,1935
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When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written
the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22
enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty
ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the
process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.
"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they
will be there in the morning."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
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SECRETARY of State Colin Powell put an Iraqi reporter in
his place the other day. The scribe tried to sandbag the statesman by
asking, "Isn't it true that only 13 percent of young Americans can locate Iraq
on a map?" "That may be true," Powell snapped. "You're probably right.
But, unfortunately for you, all 13 percent are Marines."
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Bachmann: I might have slightly doomed us all
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Today is the kind of day where the sun only comes up to humilate you.
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought---and never worried about it again.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Fencing is intensely personal. It is tough, one-on-one competition and not just with your opponent of the moment. The Fiercest battles are the ones you fight within yourself. From that standpoint, fencing is the perfect metaphor for life.?
Anthony De Longis, From the introduction to The Art and Science of Fencing by Nick Evangelsta
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Today is the kind of day where the sun only comes up to humilate you.
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought---and never worried about it again.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Fencing is intensely personal. It is tough, one-on-one competition and not just with your opponent of the moment. The Fiercest battles are the ones you fight within yourself. From that standpoint, fencing is the perfect metaphor for life.?
Anthony De Longis, From the introduction to The Art and Science of Fencing by Nick Evangelsta
Great QuoteFox1789 said:
Other Robot Chicken:
"Your hands are up there almost like you're begging...begging for a little piece of Boba"
"Your taste buds can't repel flavour of that magnitude!"
"I'll fight. 'Till from my bones my flesh be hack'd! Give me my armor!"
- Mei Ling quoting Shakespeare to cheer Snake up in MGS.
"One for all and all for one! It's from the three musketeers. The book not the chandy bar..."
- Otacon, trying to sound like Mei Ling and epic failing in MGS2
"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
"Le monde naturel est déjà assez magique sans avoir recours à l'imagination"
*The natural world is already magical enough without need of further imagination*
- Me, on superstitions and myths
- Mei Ling quoting Shakespeare to cheer Snake up in MGS.
"One for all and all for one! It's from the three musketeers. The book not the chandy bar..."
- Otacon, trying to sound like Mei Ling and epic failing in MGS2
"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
"Le monde naturel est déjà assez magique sans avoir recours à l'imagination"
*The natural world is already magical enough without need of further imagination*
- Me, on superstitions and myths
"Keep circulating the tapes."
-Mystery Science Theater 3000
"We're nothing without you!"
-Vic Ireland, Fmr. President of Working Designs
"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance!"
-Ryu, Street Fighter II
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."
Cave sage, Legend of Zelda
-Mystery Science Theater 3000
"We're nothing without you!"
-Vic Ireland, Fmr. President of Working Designs
"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance!"
-Ryu, Street Fighter II
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."
Cave sage, Legend of Zelda
"This would be the best of all worlds were it not for religion" (one of the first american settlers, cant remember his name)
"Teenagers dont fuck to rebel, they fuck 'coz their horny" George Carlin
Anything uttered by Neil Patrick Harris
"Teenagers dont fuck to rebel, they fuck 'coz their horny" George Carlin
Anything uttered by Neil Patrick Harris
Are you just trying to turn the already 37 (Edit - 38 NowJWAN said:
) page thread into a flame war? almost every quote in that post was like bashing my head into a brick wall of bias.
One quote which I rather like is by a unknown person (I don't remember) which went "too hip for the straights, too straight for the hips".
Pretty much sums me up.
The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.-Banksy
"Its time to kick ass and chew bubblegum....but i'm all outta gum"
"Hail to the king baby"
-Quotes courtesy of Duke Nukem
"Hail to the king baby"
-Quotes courtesy of Duke Nukem
