"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it!"
"Winning a war is like winning a tornado."
"The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the Gods created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow."
"Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable."
"We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us."
"It is not a matter whether the war is not real, or if it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version of is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principal the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling class against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
-George Orwell
"How do you ask someone to be the last person to die for a mistake?"
-John Kerry
"'Now at this end,'he said to Clemens, 'No schemes or plans of man will survive, for nothing can stand the test of time. So here at the end of all things, all people, things, and moments of mine shall pass away into the eternal and unreachable land of the Past.'"
"You can either get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."
-The Shawshank Redemption
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-Hermann Goering, Nuremberg trials
"Sometimes I lay awake at night and I think, 'Where did I go wrong?" Then a voice says, 'This is going to take more than one night'"
"So you want you a heart. You dont know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable."
- the wizard of oz.
"Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name,
and theyre always glad ya came.
you wanna be where you can see the troubles are all the same.
you wanna go where everybody knows your name."
-Cheers
"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
-Eeyore
"Colonel Raine told me a good deal about you. He said that when things are completely desperate and there is no hope left, it's in the nature of man to accept the inevitable, but he said you wouldn't, not because it was any positive thing, but you just wouldn't even know how to set about giving up. He said he thought you were the one man he could ever be afraid of, for if you were strapped to an electric chair and the executioner was pulling the switch, you'd still be figuring out a way to beat it."
-Alistar McLean, The Black Shrike
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans."
"Major Holidays:
Times when you frantically clean your house and pretend to be more civilized than you actually are while pulling one over on your guests."
"My head started to work. The old grievance."
-Ernest Hemingway
"And that my dear boy, is the whole point of the exercise. I don't want to get up tomorrow. The day after tomorrow? Well, yes, if I must, I'll face the day after tomorrow. I don't want to, mind you, for tomorrows, I've found are distressingly similar to todays. The only good thing you can say about today is that at any given moment such and such a portion of it is already irrevocably past- irrevocably past, as I say, and, with the passing of every moment, so much less of it to come. But all of tomorrow is still to come. Think of it. All of it- the live long day. Others drink to forget the past. But some of us- very, very few and it would not be right to say that we are gifted beyond the normal ken, so I'll just say we're different- some of us, I say, drink to forget the future."
-Alistar McLean, Bear Island
"'He is a fool,' the proverb saith, 'who writes His name in the water' -and saith true.
But greater folly, through unresting nights
To dream of one who never dreams of you."
-Anonymous
"Now the history books tell it,
they tell it so well.
The cavalry charged,
and the Indians fell.
The cavalry charged
and the Indians died,
but no one asks questions,
when God's on your side. "
-Bob Dylan
"When I think about life and when I think about death, neither one really appeals to me."
-The Smiths
"You see... loyalty [is] loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its [Presidents.] The country is the real thing, the substantial, the eternal; it is the thing to watch over, to care for, and be loyal to; institutions are [irrelevant,] they are mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags... that is loyalty of unreason..."
-Mark Twain
"Well it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin,' and you say, 'Oh, nothing,' and then you go and do it."
-Christopher Robin
"If you are not practicing just remember that someone somewhere is practicing and when the two of you meet, given rough equal ability, he will win."
"There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!"