Quotes

[Ikaru]

idk where it's from but I saw this in a tumblr picture and couldn't resist-
"A friend in need is a friend indeed
An enemy in need is hilarious"

[AZKnight]

"The history of any one part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror." - British geologist Derek V. Ager

[Maelstrom]

"A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy before him, but because he loves what he left behind."

[Brockze]

"We're all broken inside...we just try to find those who make us whole." - Me

[Maelstrom]

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause: there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!

The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins remember'd.

[Maelstrom]

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern half part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar, and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more, than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither, has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove; and that He gives to both north and south this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish, a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

-Abraham Lincoln

[Ousawa]

"I don't normaly talk but when I do, I destroy you and kill you on my mountain." - Red

[Magus]

Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go...? Such meaningless things... I'll destroy them all! - Kefka

[Maelstrom]

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance." - Alannis Morissette

A good man does not need laws to tell him to act responsibly, while a bad man will find a way around the laws. - Plato

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good int he worst of us and some evil the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. - MLK Jr.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. - Thomas Szasz

[Dana]

This is not a romantic princess picnic. This is a manly picnic. No glasses. No napkins. Whiskey only.

[ThBe]

"Unable are the loved ones to die, for love is immortality." --Emily Dickinson

[Maelstrom]

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.”

-General Douglas MacArthur

When my mom married my step-father, I used to have to read this every day before dinner from the plague on the wall his friend had made for him. I always thought it was very good.

[Ousawa]

Sometimes the wrong choices brings us to the right places - Me

[SonOfRed]

Aah! my pig!- Fin

[Noivy]

"According to this newspaper, the entire world is falling apart. Of course, it's not like anyone in town cares about what happens outside of the place. It bothers me. There's a difference between being idealistic... and just being ignorant."

Cliff Sinclair.

[Ringabel]

The black wind howls!

-Fiendlord Magus

[The Radiant Aeon]

WHERE YO CURLEH MUSTACHE AT??!!!

-IFC Yipes

[Corvus]

"For it isn't your father, your mother, or wife, whose judgement upon you must pass;
but the one whose opinion counts most in your life, is the one looking back from the glass."

-Dale Wimbrow, Man in the Glass

[Magus]

If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.
- Magus

[Brockze]

"Keep your friends close and your friends within distance of your primary firearm." - Sarge, Red vs Blue.

[The Fush]

"You're simply experiencing an illusion caused by the limits of your comprehension."

-Dilbert

[Maelstrom]

Love is like a mushroom in Super Mario Bros. When you've got it you feel larger than life and ready to take on the world but it only takes one little hit to have you feeling really small again. -Me

[The Radiant Aeon]

Don't worry, the worst thing that could happen is we all die.

-Jade Curtiss

[Maelstrom]

"Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you're allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown."

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly_p7.html#ixzz2dKbPkyZC

[Cowtao]

"It's better to burn out, than fade away." -Kurt Cobain/Def Leppard

Edited August 29, 2013 by Cowtao