Words that stir the blood

[Berethond]

"Not only is it extremely cruel to persecute in this brief life those who do not think the way we do, but I do not know if it might be too presumptuous to declare their eternal damnation."
- Voltaire

<spoiler=The Road Not Taken>TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.I detect a major liking for Robert Frost on this site.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

A movie line that has always stuck with me, though I cannot tell why, came from Rorschach in the Watchmen movie.

"Men get arrested. Dogs get put down."

In the context of the movie, it makes more sense, but I am always amazed how that line sticks with me. It's just an interesting view on justice, I guess.

 

[stickmangrit]

"Hawk the Slayer was rubbish."

 

[Athol]

"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee"
-Herman Melville

"Yea, look upon me and despair; for I am the Angel of Death, and I have come for thee"
-Unknown

 

[Eumersian]

Being told "I love you" with sincerity from someone that you love in return does that.

 

[gigastar]

Any kind of religous... anything will without fail turn me into the kind phycopathic mass murderer that kills so well it actually never happened.

I should really work on dicovering telepathy just so i could remove that one fatal berserk button of mine...

Oh and as long as the things a hate about America outwiegh the things i like about America, America.

 

[cherrybomb]

Being told "I love you" with sincerity from someone that you love in return does that.

I absolutely agree! Nothing could be better.

 

[lacktheknack]

"So, the Catholic-"

BLLLRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

 

[Lukeman1884]

Yeah, I know this is from a game, but it doesn't matter, these are still awesome words:

?You all know the mission, and what is at stake.
I have come to trust each of you with my life -- but I have also heard murmurs of discontent. I share your concerns.
We are trained for espionage; we would be legends, but the records are sealed. Glory in battle is not our way.
Think of our heroes; the Silent Step, who defeated a nation with a single shot. Or the Ever Alert, who kept armies at bay with hidden facts.
These giants do not seem to give us solace here, but they are not all that we are.
Before the network, there was the fleet. Before diplomacy, there were soldiers!
Our influence stopped the rachni, but before that we held the line!
Our influence stopped the krogan, but before that, we held the line!
Our influence will stop Saren; in the battle today, we will hold the line!?

 

[lacktheknack]

[HEADING=3]"My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?"[/HEADING]

Who said that might surprise you.

Who?

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~Marianne Williamson

Spoiler: And because I love me some Mark Twain

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
~Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~Mark Twain

In closing:
"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778

 

[Lukeman1884]

[HEADING=3]"My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?"[/HEADING]

Who said that might surprise you.

Who?

Kinda sounds like something out of Angels and Demons.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
? Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"He had burned everything there was to burn within him; he had scattered so many sparks to start so many things ? and he wondered whether someone could give him now the spark he needed, now when he felt unable to rise again. He asked himself who had started him and kept him going. Then he raised his head. Slowly, with the greatest effort of his life, he made his body rise until he was able to sit upright.... He never asked that question again. "
- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That?s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It?s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."
? Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
- Richard Feyman

And this last one works best when properly accompanied by music:


My preferred cover of the same:

Spoiler

 

[savageoblivi0n]

Spoiler: dylan thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

this one does something to me every time i read it

 

[MisterShine]

This thread reminds me of how much I hate poetry.

OT:
"Old man dies.. young girl lives. Fair trade"

"There is no justice. There's just us."

 

[llew]

"when in doubt, blow something up" michael something-or-another... now am i the only one who thinks this quote is godly? (don't answer that)

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

For coin and cleavage.

Bard's Tale reference!

 

[Nouw]

Anything from Warhammer 40,000. From the Imperium of course