Insperational Quotes
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Any excuse to wheel this one out...
"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here ? it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it PERSONAL. Do as much damage as you can. GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous makes the difference, the ONLY difference in their eyes, between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. " - Quellcrist Falconer
"Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of... whatever. FACE THE FACTS. THEN act."
"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here ? it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it PERSONAL. Do as much damage as you can. GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous makes the difference, the ONLY difference in their eyes, between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. " - Quellcrist Falconer
"Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of... whatever. FACE THE FACTS. THEN act."
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another."-J. Robert Oppenheimer
O_O *jawdrop* Excuse me, I have to go build a shrine now. Preferably in gold, silver and the skulls of the vanquished. Vae Victus!Konrad Curze said:shewolf51 said:
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In Legacy of Kain [http://www.dark-chronicle.co.uk/def/lovecraftsdiary.php].
Thats right. I loved that quote and that game so much that I actually got it embroidered on the back of a jacket.
[small]Along with my own personal symbol which I have reworked like half a dozen times since then. Current incarnation. [http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7800/symbolp.jpg][/small]
'an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind' Ghandi
I may not be a pacifist in games but in real life i am.
I may not be a pacifist in games but in real life i am.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.
- Chuck Palahniuk
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.
- Chuck Palahniuk
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members"
Groucho Marx
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
Benjamin Franklin (slightly paraphrased, I think)
Groucho Marx
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
Benjamin Franklin (slightly paraphrased, I think)
Just a couple off the top of my head:
If you're going through hell . . . keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Fear is a reflex. Confidence is a choice.
- (not entirely sure on this one to be honest)
What we have, we hold
- Motto of the Australian 2/17th battalion
If you're going through hell . . . keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Fear is a reflex. Confidence is a choice.
- (not entirely sure on this one to be honest)
What we have, we hold
- Motto of the Australian 2/17th battalion
Due to the fact I am hoping to be an RAF Regiment Para-sniper:
"Where is the prince who can afford to cover his country with troops for it defence, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places, do an infinate deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" - Benjamin Franklin (1784)
"Where is the prince who can afford to cover his country with troops for it defence, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places, do an infinate deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" - Benjamin Franklin (1784)
