Favorite Quotes

[rachel25]

"You have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting. For in what world could you ever defeat me?"
-A Knight's Tale

[Jetthebinturong]

There was a look on his face - not at all the look Clary had expected, a look that mixed triumph and horror, despair and delight. "It says," he said, "Mene mene tekel upharsin."
~ City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Mene mene tekel upharsin means "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting"

"Clarissa," he said. "What have you done?"
Clary stretched out her hand and with her finger she wrote in the sand at his feet. She didn't draw runes. She drew words...
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN."
~ City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

[Hickory]

"Rules of engagement, sir?"
"Crew expendable."


"It's quite simple: we retake the launch facility or we won't recognize the world tomorrow."


"Look at this place, fifty-thousand people used to live in this city, now it's a ghost town. I've never seen anything like it."


"The Loyalists are expecting us half a click to the north. Move out."
"Loyalists, eh? Are those the good Russians or the bad Russians?"
"Well, they won't shoot at us on sight, if that's what you're asking."
"Yeah, well that's good enough for me, sir."

-Call of Duty 4

[Skyblade]

"What's up can be a very thought-provoking question."

- me and my friend from school

[Søren]

@Jet
That was also in the Bible, the Mene Mene part.

[Jetthebinturong]

I know, the writing on the wall. Very Biblically-influenced TSHC, which is to be expected as the author is Jewish.

[Blaggut]

Napoleon Bonaparte:

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"Sometimes I am the lion and sometimes I am the fox. That is the whole secret of government."

"I have tasted power and I cannot relinquish it."

"Austria is a weak old kitchen maid, used to being raped by everyone."

"Do not fight one enemy to often, or you will teach them all your art of war"

[Vilu Daskar]

I like the last Napoleon one.

[Skyblade]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

[Angelbunny]

Dr. Williams: This is Dr. Williams in Communical Disease. You believe you may have a bacterial case?

Dr. Abrams: Not one, we have thirty.

Dr. Williams: What?

Dr. Abrams: I have thirty people in my waiting room right now.

Dr. Williams: What are the symptoms?

[Lady Ashenwyte]

"A girl gives a man his own name?" - Jaqen H'ghar

[Skyblade]

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

[Jetthebinturong]

Rip: I don't have to take this from you! You racist, cisgendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic pig! [Rip then gasps as Alucard catches a bullet with his teeth.]
Alucard: The funny thing is- [Crushes the Bullet in his teeth.] -in any other circumstance, you might have had a point there. Except my boss is a woman, I was a chick in the 40's, I hate everyone equally, and there's no one alive who can comprehend my sexual preference. So in other words, Miss Van Winkle- (punches Rip in the face) -CH-CH-CH-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!
~Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Episode 4.

Just... never search that up.

[Hickory]

"Shaken or stirred?"
"Do I look like I give a damn?"

-James Bond

"Get off my plane."

Harrison Ford, Air Force One.

[Skyblade]

"Chance favors the prepared mind." - a Latin quote