10. Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous, dous amis,
Vie amoureuse et joie à Dieu commant.
Mar vi le jour que m'amour en vous mis,
Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous, dous amis.
Mais ce tenray que je vous ay promis,
C'est que jamais n'aray nul autre amant.
Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous, dous amis,
Vie amoureuse et joie à Dieu commant.
~ Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 - c.1377)
9. "I'm Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
~HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey)
8. "And Jesus asked him, saying, "What is thy name?" And he said, "We are legion. For we are many."
~Christian Bible, Luke 8:30
7. "I swear you start singing Daisy bell, and I'm done."
~Joker (Mass Effect)
6. "If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders--what would you tell him to do?"
~Francisco d'Anconia (Atlas Shrugged)
5. "Hey there CAPITAL WASTELAND! It's ME THREE DOG! BOW WOW! And you're listenen to GNR, that's GALAXY NEWS RADIO in case ya forgot. Well here's the news: Stocks are up, unemployment is down, and the UN, she just declared GLOBAL PEACE FOREVER. *sight* now for the real news..."
~Three Dog (Fallout 3)
4. "I don't want to kill anyone. I just don't like bullies."
~Captain America (Captain America: The First Avenger)
3. "Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding."
"There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign!"
"Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end what they choose to call us is irrelevant. We simply are."
"Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. You lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything."
"Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken."
"The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished. The Protheans were not the first. They did not create the citadel, they did not forge the Mass Relays. They merely found them. The legacy of my kind."
"Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end, because we demand it."
"My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation, independent, free of all weakness. You cannot even grasp the nature of our existence."
"We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure. We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom."
"Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over."
~Sovereign (Mass Effect)
2. "...I wasn't the first to find Rapture, you crazy *****. And I won't be the last. You do ... whatever you want to me... as long as I'm with Cindy... I'm ... I'm a happy man."
~ Mark Meltzer (Bioshock 2)
1. "Ah, the assassin has overcome my final defense, and now he comes to murder me. In the end, what separates a man... from a slave? Is it money? Power? No. A man chooses. A slave obeys. You think you have memories? A family? A Farm? An airplane? A crash? And then this place... Was there ever really a family, a farm? Did that airplane crash... or was it highjacked? Forced down. Forced out of the sky by something less than a man, something bred to sleepwalk through life. Was a man sent here today to kill, or a slave. A man chooses. A slave obeys."
"Please come in. Stop would you kindly. Would you kindly... a powerful phrase... a familiar phrase?"
"Sit would you kindly. Stand, would you kindly. Run, stop, turn. A man chooses... a slave obeys. ... Kill would you kindly." *smacked by golf club* "A man chooses..." *smacked again* "A... a slave... obeys." *smacked again, the club is covered in blood* "OBEY!" *the club is swung one last time*