What are your favorite quotes of all time?

Mine:

"The world needs dreamers to give it a soul"

"And it needs realists to keep it alive."

"Culture is making a nice drinking bowl out of an enemy's skull, Civilisation is to go to prison for that"

"An Apple a Day keeps the doctor away, it's a question of how hard you throw it."

"Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a moment, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

"Knowledge is Power"

"Bitch, please."

"When life gives you lemons, kill life with them, then kill his family on national television."

"THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED."

"Do what you can,with what you have"

edited 16th Mar '13 12:06:40 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

"Bide and Fecht!"

"Our job is the achievement of desired outcomes by means of the application of focused violence."

edited 16th Jun '12 12:55:36 AM by InverurieJones

"When people say stupid things, I say that they are stupid."

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

"If violence doesn't work, you're not using enough of it."

edited 16th Jun '12 12:54:32 AM by ElRigo

"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."

Come at me.

Well, duh...

This is the climax of a larger speech titled This Is Water (which I recommend to everyone because it's very intelligent and life-affirming stuff)

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing." ~ David Foster Wallace

"How could you have missed?"

The thing currently in my signature regarding turtles and mustaches. Also "If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells then that's their business. We know what we're doing."

"Build something foolproof and the universe will build a better fool"

"If an first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving."

"Abide by these three, Faith, Hope, Love. But the greatest of these is Love."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition Read more at."

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

This one's pretty sweet.

Hehe, I always love comic book quotes, in fact my quote from the first post is actually a exchange between Magneto and Professor X. :P

If we're quoting exchanges, I'm a big fan of:

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

-Francis Bacon

"Peace through Power." Kane. Command and Conquerverse.

I've already posted in a similar thread, but here's a new favourite:

Conceit is the Devil's horse and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. *

-Margaret Deland

A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.

-Gloria Steinem

The hero is usually a pretty disturbed individual.

-Clint Eastwood

It's my estimation that every man who ever had a statue made out of him was one kind of sonuvabitch or other.

Mal Reynolds

A lie travels halfway 'round the world while Truth is still putting on her boots.

-French proverb

"There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it - one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."

-The Eleventh Doctor, unknowingly referring to himself.

—

Alfred Pennyworth: With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that you don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: So why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

—

The Eleventh Doctor: Why do you have to be so... human?

Rory: Because right now I'm not.

—

"Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever."

—

"Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty."

-Ka D'Argo

—

"Real courage is...when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

-"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

—

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

-Ambrose Redmoon

—

Julian Bashir: Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?

Garak: My dear Doctor, they're all true.

Julian Bashir: Even the lies?

Garak: Especially the lies.

—

John Crichton: If you ever hurt either of them, I will hunt you down.

Bialar Crais: You'll hunt me down? That would complete the symmetry nicely.

edited 24th Jun '12 6:44:49 PM by resetlocksley

Most of these are going to be songs. I'll say that now.

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."
- Jack Layton

"Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid."
- Carl Sagan

“Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.”
- Henry Rollins

"For so long
I saw only wrong
Now to remind
Not to go back to the low
That has drained my life so long
Close your eyes and see the sky is fallin'"
- "The Sky is Fallin'" by Queens of the Stone Age

"I wont let you fall apart"
- "The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails

"Ain't gonna worry
Just live till you die, wanna drown
With nowhere to fall
Into the arms of someone
There's nothing to save and I know
You live till you die"
- "In The Fade" by Queens of the Stone Age

"If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been"
- "Crowd Surf Off a Cliff" by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

Eh... that's enough for one post, I suppose.