History Quotes / KnightInsourArmor

-->--''MassEffect2''

-->--''LiveFreeOrDieHard''

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-->-- '''Solid Snake''', ''MetalGearSolid''

-->-- '''Marcus Cole''', ''{{Babylon 5}}''

-->-- '''Gene Ryack''', ''AirAmerica''

'''Shepard:''' People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel. But they're trying and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.

-->--''Live Free or DieHard''

->''I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life ''were'' fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.''

---> --''[[http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/origin.html The Paradoxical Commandments]]'', words for the KnightInSourArmor to live by.

->''"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life ''were'' fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.''

->'''Liara:''' So tell me Shepard, what are you fighting for.\\

-->-- '''Spider Jerusalem''', {{Transmetropolitan}}

->''"Sometimes cynicism is the last refuge of the idealist."''

->''"What if I told you it doesn't help? What would you do if you found out that none of it matters? That it's all controlled by forces more powerful and uncaring than we can conceive and they will never let it get better down here? What would you do?"''

->''"I'm no hero. Never was, never will be. Just an old killer, hired to do some wet-work."''

->''"Do not be deceived, Wormwood. [{{Satan}}'s] cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy [{{God}}]'s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."''

-->-- '''Gunn''', ''{{Angel}}''

-->-- ''{{Angel}}'', "Soul Purpose"

-->-- "Soul Purpose," ''{{Angel}}''

-> "Sometimes cynicism is the last refuge of the idealist."
-->-- L.E. Modesitt, Jr., ''The Ethos Effect''

->'''[[DistressedDamsel Woman in alley]]:''' Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me!
->'''[[BadassLongcoat Spike]]:''' Well, what did you expect? Out alone in this neighborhood -- I've got half a mind to kill you myself, you half-wit.
->'''Woman in alley:''' What?
->'''Spike:''' I mean honestly, what kind of retard wears [[BrokenHeel heels]] like that in a dark alley? Take two steps and break your bloody ankle.
->'''Woman in alley:''' ''[annoyed]'' I was just trying to get home.
->'''Spike:''' Well, get a cab, you moron, and on the way, if a stranger offers you candy, don't get in the van!

->'''John [=McClane=]:''' You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
->'''Matt Farrell:''' Then why you doing this?
->'''John [=McClane=]:''' Because there's nobody else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it.

->"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life ''were'' fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
-->-- '''Marcus Cole''', ''[[{{Babylon5}} Babylon 5]]''

->'''Liara:''' So tell me Shepard, what are you fighting for.
->'''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]:''' I guess I'm fighting for us. All of us.
->'''Liara:''' That's a pretty big responsibility.
->'''Shepard:''' People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel. But they're trying and I'm going to make sure they have a chance.

-> ''I'm no hero. Never was, never will be. Just an old killer, hired to do some wet-work.''

-->-- '''Marcus Cole''', ''Babylon5''

-->-- '''Marcus Cole''', ''{{Babylon5}}''

->"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

->'''Shepard:''' I guess I'm fighting for us. All of us.

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->'''John McClane:''' You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.

->'''John McClane:''' Because there's nobody else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it.