Quotes
| Previous Quotes of the Week | ||
| Aslan | The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. | |
| Mazer Rackham (Ender's Game) | Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. | |
| Alan Keyes | If we intend to restore real self-government in America, let's be clear that we have, in fact, surrendered it. Through the imposition of the income tax, we have surrendered our economic sovereignty; the control of our money. Through the acceptance of a government-dominated school system, we have surrendered our educational sovereignty; the control of our future. | |
| Poor Old Lu (Joy I Had Was Joy I Sold) | I fell on the ground. Was it something sad, that made me mad? Feelings, too close to let me free. But what I have and what I hold, and joy I had was joy I sold, you see. Crown the pain and face the day, what I thought would last is fading fast. | |
| Wedding Party (Bury the Dead) | When everything's unsaid, let the dead bury the dead. Oh we're almost done. The spirit and the bride say, "come, and marry me . . . marry me." | |
| Project 86 (Sad Machines) | "An ageless question, universal - they're asking why creation destined cries flood the night in pain. They say if You are real then take it away, but man will only look to you ... lying on his face." | |
| John Locke from "The Second Treatise of Government" | "As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage-- when the governor, however entitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule, and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion." | |
| Margaret Mathers from the Daily Times (Farmington, NM), July 22, 2001 | "I've been what they call a 'small L libertarian' ever since I was old enough to realize that we were given free will and the challenge to learn how to use it. I had what I considered an incredible epiphany when I realized that this came from God, who seemed to regard free will so highly he allowed his son to be killed rather than force people to do the right thing. To me, this meant that EVERYONE had free will, and it was not my job to force them to do things my way. As I became interested in politics, this also meant that it was not my job to use government power to force people to do things my way." | |
| The Waiting (A Thousand Years) | "Here in this moment I understand that If I take the time to feel Your love, a thousand years is not enough." | |
| Manuel Garcia O'Kelly from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein | "Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: 'Please pass this so that I won't be able to do so something I know I should stop.' Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them 'for their own good' --not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it." | |
| Joseph Heller | "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you." | |
| Anonymous | "The question is not whether or not America can survive terrorism, the question is whether America can survive 'homeland security.'" | |
| Ronald Bailey The Washington Times, March 17, 1997 | "The basic insight of libertarianism is simple: If you treat people like adults, they will tend to act like adults." | |
| The Wizard of OZ | "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." | |
| Mike Royko | "Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on." | |
| James Madison | "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." | |
| Aristotle | "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider godfearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." | |
| Thomas Jefferson | "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." | |
| George Bernard Shaw | "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." | |
| Quotes by Final Rain | ||
| Me: | I don't have all day, and, even if I did, I wouldn't want to spend it here. (I usually say this when I get behind someone who takes five minutes to go after the light turns green. Somehow they always seem to be fooling around with something on the floor of the car) | |
| Quotes from the Matrix | ||
| Morpheus: | You are a slave Neo, like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. | |
| Morpheus: | I didn't say it would be easy, Neo, I just said it would be the truth. | |
| Morpheus: | I can only show you the door, you're the one who has to walk through it. | |
| Morpheus: | Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. | |
| Trinity: | You know that road, you know exactly where it ends, and I know that's not where you want to be. | |
| Quotes from Gundam Wing | ||
| Duo Maxwell: | Oh, man, Quatre loves to blame himself for everything if you let him. Sooner or later, he'll start saying that there's no air in space because he didn't work on it hard enough. | |
| Duo Maxwell: | Stop making me repeat myself, it's bad for my health. | |
| Trowa Barton: | Those who have laid eyes on a Gundam shall not live to tell about it. | |
| Heero Yui: | Then I'll give you one piece of advice... dying hurts like [the hot place] (quote modified so as not to offend). | |
| Quotes from people I know | ||
| Rachel: | *sarcastically* Keeper of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe! (in reference to someone who was being a know-it-all) | |
| Rachel: | It takes two to tango, but it takes three to throw a dead guy over a bridge. | |
| Ketlin Narris: | May your dreams be sweet, your night good, and may the waking up not seem so bad. | |
| Nathan Shockley: | You've gotta use tinfoil! That's the only way to keep the aliens out. That's the way I do it, and they only got me once! And that time, I was using a jacket, not tinfoil. | |
| Mom (Elaine): | You can say all sorts of things with your fingers crossed. | |
| Narfman (in response to 'when in Rome...') | "That's like saying, 'When in Hell, do as the demons.'" | |