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"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again, but one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever."
— Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War
"Artists use lies to tell the truth"
— Evey Hammond, V for Vendetta
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
— Polonius, Hamlet: Act 2 Scene 2
"Childhood is short, and maturity is forever."
"Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding."
— Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
"Everything that has a beginning, has an end"
— The Oracle, The Matrix Revolutions
"For you, a thousand times over"
— Hassan, The Kite Runner
"Good deed's like pissing yourself in dark pants. Warm feeling, but no one notices."
— Jacob, Mass Effect 2
"I have experience... and patience. A man can do anything if he has those."
— Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War
"If it is justice that you want, be smart about it."
—Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Game of Thrones S2E5: The Ghost of Harrenhal
"If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?"
— Jaime Lannister, A Song of Ice and Fire
"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"
— Thumper, Bambi
"If you have to explain a joke, THERE IS NO JOKE!"
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
— Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal In Bohemia
"In your haste to save the world boy, take care you don't destroy it!"
— Achilles Davenport, Assassin's Creed III
"It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place. But for three years I had roses - and apologised to no-one. I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one."
— Valerie Page, V for Vendetta
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come! And when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer!"
Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come! And when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer!"— Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
"Lesson number one: Never attack in anger"
— Diego de la Vega, The Mask of Zorro
"Lies, especially related to finance and health, aren’t jokes, they’re just mean."
"People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy"
"People want Me to do everything for them, but what they don't realize is, they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle."
— God, Bruce Almighty
"Please! No more 'splaining!"
— Amelia, The Tick S1E09: The Tick vs Brainchild
"Sometimes truth isn't good enough; sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded."
"Telling someone like me he can't do a thing just ensures he will...without your oversight"
"That's your story, all one hundred percent of it. That one hundred percent is all in your head. [...] Once you get it down on paper, maybe only fifty to seventy-five percent of the original story makes it down there. And when the reader reads the story, they'll probably only get about fifty percent of even that. Get it? [...]
This is because you as a writer... when you read your own story, that story is already all in your head, so as you read, you unconsciously fill in all the gaps, all the plot holes, but your reader doesn't have that convenience, does she? [...]
To make up for that, you gotta put that missing percentage of the story that the reader doesn't get the first time through by stylistic writing that subtly impacts their emotions!"
This is because you as a writer... when you read your own story, that story is already all in your head, so as you read, you unconsciously fill in all the gaps, all the plot holes, but your reader doesn't have that convenience, does she? [...]
To make up for that, you gotta put that missing percentage of the story that the reader doesn't get the first time through by stylistic writing that subtly impacts their emotions!"
"The past makes you who you are. It shouldn't be your burden!"
— Zhang Junbao, Tai Chi Master
"There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community."
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community."
— Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV), The Bible
"There is a way to be good again"
— Rahim Khan, The Kite Runner
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more [...]
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, — Wait and hope"
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, — Wait and hope"
— Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
"There's always one guaranteed weak link in any security set up: The human heart"
— Carl Johnson, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
"Traditional storytelling is setting up a character, sending them on their journey, and learning more about them through their journey. The Last Airbender is just chess piece storytelling: Character goes here, character goes there, character says this, pawn to king four."
"We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself."
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself."
— Polonius, Hamlet: Act 3 Scene 1
"We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun"
"We don't get to choose how or who we fall for, and we don't get to choose if or when those feelings go away. But if they do and you find yourself alone, that shouldn't take away the good times you did have together and that shouldn't take away the things you learned about yourself. It's okay to be sad about what you lost, but eventually you should try to be thankful for what you gained from the experience. And, maybe, with enough time, and enough understanding, you'll find that you're not alone, but rather that you traded a romance for a friend. A friend that still wants the best for you, even if they had to hurt you by saying they weren't the best for you nor you for them."
"What we do in life... echoes in eternity"
— Maximus, Gladiator
"When a man says he has principles, what he means is he can't be bought cheap"
—Chester Hoenicker, Flubber
"When you make somebody work to get a piece of information, they'll believe it that much more because it's hard to get."
— Michael Westen, Burn Notice S1E3: Fight or Flight
Real Life
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
— Laozi
"A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate."
—Paul Eldridge (Novelist, 1897–1972)
"A professional enjoys what he does, but knows at the end of the day that he has to keep what he does about business."
— Christatos Aristad, So You Want My Job: Professional Gambler
"Adults are only kids grown up, anyway"
"Art takes hours to produce and seconds to consume so don't act surprised when artists get upset when their posts only get likes and no reblogs. Similarly, a piece of writing that takes a few minutes to read could have weeks of work behind it…
Don't take creativity for granted when you're getting it for free"
Don't take creativity for granted when you're getting it for free"
"Be kind to everyone on the way up. You’ll meet the same people on your way down."
— Attr. to Walter Winchell (Gossip Columnist, 1897–1972)
"Be the change you want to see happen" *
— Arleen Lorrance (Author and School Teacher), The Love Principles
"Character is What You Are in the Dark"
— Attr. to Dwight L. Moody (American Evangelist, 1837–1899)
"Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions."
— Ajahn Brahm (Theravada Buddhist monk)
"Do you know what it means when somebody pays you minimum wage? [...] It's like 'Hey, if I could pay you less, I would.'"
[...] It's like 'Hey, if I could pay you less, I would.'""Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity."
"—Gabe Newell (Managing Director and co-founder of Valve Corporation)
"Don’t noun people, verb them"
"Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master."
"— Ed Latimore (Former heavyweight boxer)
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan (American Politician and Sociologist, 1927-2003)
"Everything in moderation, including moderation"
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone"
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."
— Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO union leader, 1922-1999)
"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."
— George Monbiot, The Self-Attribution Fallacy
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself"
— Attr. to Albert Einstein
"If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."
"If you talk to a fireman he will say, 'all houses matter but right now we are heading to the one that's burning'".
"If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re likely on the menu."
— Attr. to Ann Richards (45th Governor of Texas, 1933–2006)
(45th Governor of Texas, 1933–2006)"Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
— Robert G. Ingersoll (US politician, orator, agnostic, 1833-1899) in a lecture about Abraham Lincoln
"It turns out that wealth does trickle down, you just have to make them bleed first."
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
— Grace Hopper (Rear admiral, 1906-1992)
(Rear admiral, 1906-1992)"It’s easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled."
— Attr. to Mark Twain(What he actually wrote)
"Learn the rules before you break them"
— The Bookman, Volume 60 (Attr. to Pablo Picasso)
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
"People who demand respect get the bare minimum.
People who command respect get that and more."
People who command respect get that and more."
"Sacrifice must come with a purpose. There has to be a good reason for it."
"Sell the sizzle not the sausage"
— Katy Hill (former Blue Peter presenter and life coach)
"Speech is free, but LIES will cost ya ✨"
"— Tiara Mack (Rhode Island Senator)
(Rhode Island Senator)"That which can be asserted without evidence may also be dismissed without evidence."
—Christopher Hitchens (British-American author, 1949–2011), Hitchens' Razor
"The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough."
— Randy Pausch (Carnegie Mellon Professor, 1960-2008), The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."
— Attr. to Albert Einstein
"The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is"
"The joy is in the journey, the struggle is part of the joy and the final destination is not an end but another beginning of another journey"
— Kathy Boyd Fellure (Novelist and Children's Author)
(Novelist and Children's Author)"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried"
— Stephen McCranie (Cartoonist)
(Cartoonist)"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
"The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
— Attr. to Edmund Burke (Irish statesman, 1730–1797)
"Those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly.
Those who rush ahead don’t get very far.
Those who try to outshine others dim their own light.
Those who call themselves righteous can’t know how wrong they are.
Those who boast of their accomplishments diminish the things they have done."
Those who rush ahead don’t get very far.
Those who try to outshine others dim their own light.
Those who call themselves righteous can’t know how wrong they are.
Those who boast of their accomplishments diminish the things they have done."
— Laozi
"That's why they call it The American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
"Weak leaders make people weaker. Strong leaders make people stronger."
"—Adam Grant (Organizational psychologist)
The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
"Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that."note
"Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
"well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions"
"What have a drug cartel and American hospitals got in common?
If you can’t pay, they’ll both leave you dead in the street."
If you can’t pay, they’ll both leave you dead in the street."
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat"
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
."—Franklin Leonard, American film executive
, American film executive"Whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? A prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred"
"You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love"
“You can’t beat goodness into a person.”
"You don’t get to grow up when you’re born poor, you get dragged up by circumstance."
Unknown sources
Actions have consequences
"Because you can doesn't mean you should"
Blessed is he who sits on a bee for he shall rise again
"Deprive someone of their creature comforts—and you’ll see what kind of creature they really are."
Don't be a jerk
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Don't wrestle with a pig in the mud. You both get dirty and the pig likes it
Equal rights for everyone does not meant fewer rights for you
Finish what you start
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism/consequences
Go until you get a No
God must have loved the common people: He made so many of them.
— Misattr. to Abraham Lincoln
Growth is just outside your comfort zone
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. People with guns kill more people.
If you need the threat of damnation to be a good person, you are not a good person.
"If you become expendable, you cannot negotiate"
If you can read this, thank a teacher
If you're not paying for the product, you are the product
Infatuation is selfish. Love is selfless
It's easy to forgive when you're not the victim
It's expensive to be poor
The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday
Loyalty and Respect go both ways. If they don't return it, they don't deserve it. / Respect is a two-way street
''Loyalty to your company/employer isn't earned, it's bought.
Measure seven times, cut once
— Russian proverb
Minimum wage, minimum effort
Money isn't everything, but everything needs money
"Never lift a hand to strike someone; it leaves your lower parts vulnerable"
"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn"
Out of sight, out of mind
"Smile; Tomorrow will be worse"
— The Murphy Philosophy
The best lies have an element of truth
Two wrongs do not make a right
What Goes Online, Stays Online Forever
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
— Attr. to Edward Snowden
Winners never quit. Quitters never win.
Work Smarter, not harder
"Why give your heart to someone who doesn't even want it?"
(from a video series about The Bible, forgot what series it was)
Thoughts and prayers are only insulting when they replace needed action.
are only insulting when they replace needed action.You could fill a library with all the things you don’t know! In fact, they do, they’re called libraries!
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.
بعد از هر تاریکی روشنایی است (After every darkness there is light)
— Afghan proverb
Quotes by me or my friends (but mostly my friends)
"Any direction is a direction. The only way to go nowhere is by staying still"
"Give a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life"
"Once a king, always a king. Once a (k)night, enough!"
"Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Too much of a bad thing...EVEN WORSE!"
