Favorite Quotes

[Jetthebinturong]

I've posted this one before, but I like it a lot.

"Do not ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity."
~ The Shadow Dragons, James A. Owen.

[Jetthebinturong]

And a double post, but no one else is doing it.

"You know something? I really HATE people! They're selfish, ignorant, loud obnoxious jerks with basically NO redeeming qualities whatsoever! Look at all they've achieved; genocide, global warming, reality TV; it's just a never-ending parade of failures & screw-ups! They are without question a complete write off of a species! And how dare you make me care about them?"
~ Kirito, SAO Abridged episode 8.

[Skyblade]

"Sometimes your second choice turns out to be the best one."

- my teacher

[Kitsune]

Katy Perry can write some dirty music, but some of her songs are really inspiring.

"You don't have to feel like a wasted space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow
And when it's time you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July"

-Katy Perry, Firework

"Throw your sticks and your stones,
Throw your bombs and your blows
But you're not gonna break my soul
This is the part of me
That you're never gonna ever take away from me, no"

-Katy Perry, Part of Me

"I just wanna throw my phone away
Find out who is really there for me"

-Katy Perry, Part of Me

[Skyblade]

I have a thread for that

[Kitsune]

Ah, but are song lyrics not quotes in themselves?
(I think that encouraging messages in songs are, most likely, the artist's personal messages to the listener, so it is a bit different than "Dude, I really connect to that one song, "I LOVE ICE CREAM" by Screamo Dreamo Buy-Me-Ice-Cream-O." Terrible example, but you get the idea. )

[Skyblade]

They are, but it's still nice to have a separate thread for them.

I agree. And that made me laugh for a few seconds.

[Søren]

"I'm usually a very humane man, Eddie, but right now I could kick a kitten through an electric fan!"
-Frasier Crane, talking to his father's dog, Eddie.

[LT Sandpaw]

"People are the problem, and people are the solution." - Unknown

[Perifaen]

"If we remembered everyday that we could lose someone at any moment, we would love them more fiercely and freely, and without fear. Not because there is nothing to lose, but because everything can be always be lost." - Unknown

[Maudie]

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
-Og Mandino

[Jetthebinturong]

From the last episode of Doctor Who:

CLARA: It's no good, Bonnie. You can't win.
BONNIE: I don't care.
DOCTOR: Hi! Hello! Hello!
(The two Zygons seize Clara.)
DOCTOR: Oh, hello! Hi. Hi. Stop this. Stop this, please. Let me take both of these boxes away. We'll forgive, we'll forget. And the ceasefire will stand.
BONNIE: No.
(Kate goes to the red box.)
KATE: Doctor, which of these buttons do I press? Doctor, which one? Truth or consequences?
(Bonnie aka Clara-Zygon stands at the blue box.)
BONNIE: Truth or consequences?
DOCTOR: This is the moment we've all been waiting for. Make your mind up time!
(He goes into American Game Show Host mode)
DOCTOR: One of those buttons will destroy the Zygons, release the imbecile's gas. The other one detonates the nuclear warhead under the Black Archive. It'll destroy everyone in London. Bonnie. Bonnie, sweetheart! One of those buttons will unmask every Zygon in the world. The other one cancels their ability to change form. It'll make them human beings for ever. (normal) There are safeguards beyond safeguards. I did this on a very important day for me and this ceasefire will stand.
BONNIE: This is wrong.
DOCTOR: No, it's not.
BONNIE: You are responsible for all the violence. All of the suffering.
DOCTOR: No, I'm not.
BONNIE: Yes.
DOCTOR: No.
BONNIE: Yes. You engineered this situation, Doctor. This is your fault.
DOCTOR: No, it's not. It's your fault.
BONNIE: I had to do what I've done.
DOCTOR: So did I.
BONNIE: We've been treated like cattle.
DOCTOR: So what?
BONNIE: We've been left to fend for ourselves.
DOCTOR: So's everyone.
BONNIE: It's not fair.
DOCTOR: Oh, it's not fair? Oh, I didn't realise that it was not fair! Well, you know what? My TARDIS doesn't work properly and I don't have my own personal tailor.
BONNIE: The things don't equate.
DOCTOR: These things have happened, Zygella. They are facts. You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You're not superior to people who were cruel to you. you're just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?
BONNIE: Why should we?
DOCTOR: What is it that you actually want?
(After a long pause.)
BONNIE: War.
DOCTOR: Ah. Ah, right. And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who's going to make the violins? Well? Oh, you don't actually know, do you? Because, like every other tantrumming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
BONNIE: We'll win.
DOCTOR: Oh, will you? Well, maybe, maybe you will win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
BONNIE: Why are you still talking?
DOCTOR: Because I want to get you to see, and I'm almost there!
BONNIE: Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A fifty percent chance.
KATE: For us, too.
(Both women have their hands poised over the buttons. The Doctor resumes Games Host mode.)
DOCTOR: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be luckiest?
KATE: This is not a game!
DOCTOR: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.
BONNIE: Why are you doing this?
KATE: Yes, I'd quite like to know that, too. You set this up. Why?
DOCTOR: Because it's not a game, Kate! This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought, right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does until what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning. SIT DOWN AND TALK! Listen to me. Listen, I just, I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind.
BONNIE: I will not change my mind.
DOCTOR: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you can walk right out of that door and you could stand your revolution down.
BONNIE: No! I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go, after what I've done?
DOCTOR: You're all the same, you screaming kids. You know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable." Well, here's the unforeseeable: I forgive you! After all you've done, I forgive you.
BONNIE: You don't understand. You will never understand.
DOCTOR: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, do you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know! I did worse things than you could ever imagine! And when I close my eyes I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight till it burns your hand, and you say this. No one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will have to feel this pain. Not on my watch!

[Jewel Thief]

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
-Paarthurnax, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

[Delthion]

To be born good. And I loved the Martian. Really good movie.

[Hickory]

"No, you know about loss. Sacrifice is a choice you make. Loss is a choice made for you."

-Conrad Roth

"War... war never changes."

-The Sole Survivor