Favorite Quotes

[robbiewebster]

I looked through five pages of topics and found no other topic similar to this although I thought there was one. If there is please let me know I didn't purposefully clone another topic. Anyways this topic is just to display some of your favorite quotes. They can be from anywhere. I'm going to start off by listing several that I love. Here they are.

"I can see how it might be posssible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an athiest, but I cannot concieve how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God" - Abraham Lincoln

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to differet distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." - Charles Darwin

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think" - Aristotle

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." - G.K. Chesterton

[Curtis]

Mine is kinda a goofy one from a anime show, AquaTeenHungerForce, but here goes...

"Yes, Japan? Connect Me With Godzilla Please!" ~Meatwad

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"Evil is easy and has infinite forms"

-Pascal

"Evil Shouts, Good whispers"
-tibetan proverb

"Good shouts, Evil Whispers"
-Balinese proverb

"It'll be cool!"
-House, MD.

"A warrior who fights a battle he does not believe in has already lost the war, for he cannot fight for his own beliefs"
-Soj IIVX

[Valathous]

"People from Montreal don't learn to skate; they're born that way." - Martin Brodeur

"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense" - Voltaire

"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favour." - Voltaire

�It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong� - Voltaire

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." - Voltaire

�No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.� - Voltaire

�As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.� - Voltaire

"say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you" - Voltaire

�It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets� - Voltaire

�Common sense is not so common.� - Voltaire

�It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.� - Voltaire

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall on the sommation of Voltaire's work

"We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"Well, just watch me." - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"The essential ingredient to politics is timing." - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

�If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.� - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

�I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.� - Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napol�on Bonepart

"My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from the victories I have won. My power would fail if I were not to support it with more glory and more victories. Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me." - Napol�on Bonaparte

"I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Cheney have been to jail more times than I have, and I used to shoot heroin, now what does that tell you?" - Dave Mustaine

"After all, it is as respectable to be modified ape as to be modified dirt." - Thomas Huxley (AKA Darwin's Bulldog)

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"One man's impossibilities is one woman's challenge."
"I'm a security chief, not a starbase, I can't fix everything."
"I'm a security guard, not a repair droid."
"This ship isn't even a technical error anymore, it's like the text book on what NOT to do."
"And captain... did you...by chance "liberate" 18 cubic tonnes of chocolate? Because there was ALOT of questions referring to such an occurence."
"Actually captain, as of 20 minutes ago, the only place NOT equipped with a holo-emitter is the holodeck... go figure."
"Now you listen here, I'm a security guard, not a bloody starfleet engineering crew. Where the h-e-double-hockey sticks were you a couple weeks ago when we needed an engineering crew?"
"Well, now that Morale has been removed again, and we are safe from junior officers making legitimate complaints about senior officers, I think it's time for lunch."
"Captain, a word or two, if you don't mind. Or if you do. It doesn't really matter either way. We're having a word."
"I out-rank you, emett. So watch your' tongue. My health, that you can question. My conduct is the Captain's to question, and he's already given me several warnings. So drop it now."
"Um...well... let's see... Shields are at 0.01%, Phasers are a little tired right now, and we're down 12 torpedoes. Other then that, Mr. Little is having a beauty nap in Sickbay, Emett has developped sarcasm, and I personally have jumped off the deep end, Captain."
"Computer, you have the bridge."
"No sir. In addition to failing this mission, we likely shattered the fragile relationship the federation HAD with Partra, and likely destroyed a good portion of Partra's technological abilities for the time being."
"Certainly Captain. Would you like some coffee? A little sugar and kiss my arse in it?
Come on, Captain, you know I can't knit, or sew. I can crochet, but only dresses. I don't think the Lt. Commander would approve that much. I'll go try and hunt down little though."
"What? I find Temporal Disturbances fascinating." Lauren replied.
I don't know if we can. I don't know what to do. STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS."
"That's me. I'm Commander Lauren Van den Hause. The Temporal Mess queen, I had to take up the job when they promoted Janeway to Admiral."
"Before I even get started, we've got alot of temporal stuff to set aside. Emett, this entire conversation violates the Temporal directive. With that said, let the fun begin."
"Alright, alright, so I confess to stealing 8 cubic tonnes of Chocolate..."
"'Undefined data.' VERY FREAKING DESCRIPTIVE, YOUR MORONIC PIECE OF JUNK."
Humans and Klingons. Can't live with them... can't kill them... well... you COULD... but it's a court martial offence..
"You. Klingon furball thing. Move. Now. My station."
"I've picked Tipin because she's one of few people aboard this daft and deity-forsaken starship that I haven't had to throw, maim, or otherwise insult."
"I don't trust half the people on this ship. I don't know most of them. And this guy from InOps with the IQ of a tribble isn't high on my trust list"

- Captain Lauren Van den Hause


"How exactly will damning the sensors of this door force it to work any better?" Emett asked.
As if on cue, the door recieve a jolt of power and opened.
"Sometimes, Emett, you just need a knack for damning the right things at the right time." Lauren replied

"Does your' attitude come with a user's manual?" Emett asked her.
"Yes. I believe it reads 'volatile and dangerous. Stay away from this subject at all costs.'" Lauren retorted.
-Lauren and Emett

"You. Take this salad to the Lieutenant over there, and apolagize to her for trying to feed her snails."
-Linda.hpp


A few of my favorite quotes from a rather insane RPG

[Pyro114]

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- George S. Patton

I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Julius Caesar

[Theresa]

�Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States where men were free,� - Ronald Reagan