You fucked up. You trusted us.
From Animal House
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You fucked up. You trusted us.
From Animal House
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the trueΒ emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
"The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry."
No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX
It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute
Just because it's from a game doesn't invalidate it, just like if it came from a book it doesn't invalidate it
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett
Good is not the enemy of perfect.
But the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Cormac Mccarthy:
"Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere."
You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.
I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.
"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"
Also:
"Do what you can't"
"A day may come when the courage of men fails when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.β An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is too short to please everybody.
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
both gramsci
βMan's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.β
β Euripides
Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.
I can't pick just one.
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night
-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.
When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture
Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.
Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
βThe only common factor in all of your failures, is you.β
-Meh, I donβt know
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM
"...because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this... bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye."
I am Γndigo Montoya, you have killed my father, prepare to die
-Indigo Montoya
"Cause nothin' moves faster than the hands of time"
george lucas' greatest accomplishment is that he created an alien that accurately represented seven racial stereotypes
The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Yeah, I always wanted to be a well known idiot. - Niko Bellic, after not wanting to appear on camera associated with a street justice man
"Be careful what you wish for"
--Aesop--
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
"Don't whistle while you're pissing." ---Hagbard Celine - Illuminatus by Robert Anton Wilson
My personal favorite is (and I'm probably messing it up because it's been 30 years...):
If there were more bloody noses, there'd be fewer wars.
When I read that, I was finally able to reconcile my pacifist upbringing with the reality I was observing.