Quotes
We have met the enemy and he is Us.
I believe in, and I will fight for, the Charter of Rights. I believe in, and I will fight for, a Canada that respects the foresight and vision of those who created and entrenched the Charter. I believe in, and I will fight for, a future in which generations of Canadians to come, Canadians born here and abroad, will have the opportunity to value the Charter as we do today - as an essential pillar of our democratic freedoms.
Do not go quietly into the night, rage, rage, rage, against the dying of the light
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die
I am the devil, and I come to do the devils work.
It does not do to rely to much on slient majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing one loud noise and it's gone
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stuipd. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and briliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
There are times when all you can do to survive is one single thing, however unlikely it may be, and so you act as if it can be done.
...this is the Great Theater of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night
I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.
I don't believe one can show greater respect than to weep for a stranger
Like an angel from the underworld, or a demon from paradise
Sometimes insanity is the only alternative
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right
Hell is other people
The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be
If you do not survive what you do now, you will not reach the future. If you do not think now about where you go, you will have precious few choices when you reach next year or the years after.
First you must survive
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger idea, [the mind] never returns to its original size.
When the situation is passed all remedies, it is righteousness to take to sword.
You're walking on gallows ground, and there's a rope around your neck and a raven bird on each shoulder waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the branch from which the rope is swinging.
Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.
As sure as waters wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
I believe life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
Its easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
The trick is to just keep moving.
Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
Don't think you are, know you are.
Just so. Opening your eyes is all that is needed. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge
Don't ask permission. Just do it! It's easier to apologize for having done something than it is to get permission to do it.
If you would take a mans life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
They can because they think they can.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
All worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is to poor to buy.
Let's make these machines do something they've never done before, lets make them sing!
For every fact there is a infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.
What I was I no more remain
Tell me and I may forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I'll understand.
Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be.
Any dream worth having, is worth fighting for.
There comes a point in every mans life when he must stop thinking and start doing.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Only he can command who has the courage to disobey.
Its a good day to die.
Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow.
I'm a thief, I'm a liar, I'm an angel in the fire.
Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Even if it's a stupid dream holding on to it is my only proof of who I am. If I run away now all that I've been -- all that I've tried to be -- will become a lie.
Too fucked up to care anymore.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.
In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the absurd.
Any view of things that is not strange is false.
It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Funny, as grim as things look right now I kind of like the challenge.
There's nothing in this world of value. Nothing worth risking our lives for except perhaps what little we can create ourself.
Everyone's out to get you mother fucker.
I've never been one to play it safe. I choose to try.
She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I need.
You who chose to lead must follow, but if you fall you fall alone. If you should stand who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home.
You can only be what you are.
Smile pretty and watch your back.
As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourself. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling outside. Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew.
What have I become my sweetest friend? Everything goes away in the end.
There are no responsibilities too small for your concern, nor none too great to be borne.
You sing when you can, not when someone wants you to.
We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.
I wish I felt something.
We walk the narrow path
Beneath the smoking skies
Sometimes you can barely tell the difference
Between the darkness and the light
Do we have faith in what we believe?
The truest test is when we cannot,
When we cannot see.
Beneath the smoking skies
Sometimes you can barely tell the difference
Between the darkness and the light
Do we have faith in what we believe?
The truest test is when we cannot,
When we cannot see.
Truth is lived, not taught.
Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die then give you control.
Always the principle of a thing is more important than the thing itself.
The sweetest tounge, has the sharpest tooth.
The power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need.
We will honour the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die.
Krishna answers. "I am Time, Arjuna -- and now, here at this place of battle, I am the mighty world-destroying Time. With or without you, the warriors are arrayed to fight, and whether on the righteous or corrupt side, they are readied for their ruin and must die. The destruction of enemies is inevitable. It is not possible for an individual person to avert the design of Divinity."
Nothing can hurt me, nothing can hurt me, nothing can stop me now.
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. Mr. Speaker, together as a nation, together as Canadians: Let us step forward.
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy.
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid living today.
What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished.
The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile deliquents.
Now you will apologize to me, and you will call me by my right name, or I will - with enormous pleasure - devote the rest of my life to hunting you down and destorying everything that you care for and everything that you are.
When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remeber Lucifer used to be an angel.
"Love must not entreat", she added, "or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why dosen't matter any more.
My story is not a plesant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams - like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
Where I come from, we believe in using what is closest to an enemy or what comes from him, as a weapon against him.
Surt; he has a flaming sword, and at the end of the world he will come and harry and will vanquish all the gods and burn the whole world with fire.
Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never.
If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. Alternatively if there is no way out, no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you can't do anything about it.
Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
Reality is almost always wrong.
Gravity is a harsh mistress.
You're going sane in a crazy world
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill.
Knowledge is a weapon John. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.
To this I will make reply although he be a god and it will mean my death.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
It is at this point that Shaftoe makes his big decision. It is surprisingly easy - but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest'
To know one thing, you must know the opposite
Sometimes, you know, you've just got to let go.
Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
Do not try to imitate the old masters. Seek what they sought.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with anything original
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
No matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone, turn back.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
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