Quotes Thread

[Space 2335]

Inspired by a recent status update. So post your interesting, funny, witty, or dank quotes.

 

Remember, memes are outlawed, so please tread lightly.

 

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

- Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

 

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?”

- Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five

 

"He was going to live forever or die in the attempt."

- Joseph Heller, Catch-22

 

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

 

I enjoy books about long ago wars, I guess. And black humour.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

[Ser Paul Ryan 1139]

"I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay"

 

- Hakim Hussein Obama 

[KarmaDelta 969]

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

-Martin Luther King Jr.

[~ Fiend ~ 611]

"Karma's a *****, and so am I." - Agent Texas, Red vs. Blue

[mitto 2312]

"HEUH!" - Link, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

"Hodor!"

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-Bran, in an attempt to get Hodor's attention.

[Gunner 775]

"The most precious possession you have in the world is your own people. And for this people, and for the sake of this people; we will struggle and fight. And never slacken, never tire, never lose courage, and never lose faith."

[mmat 7460]

"For you see, strife feeds on conflict. When you have peace in your heart, strife will find somewhere else to roam." - Lorewalker Stonestep

 

"To fight out of fear or anger, is to fight a war that never ends." - Emperor Shaohao

 

"They sowed the wind, now they are going to reap the whirlwind." - UK Air Marshal Harris, 1940

[Aislin 4354]

"MUM! Tha computah is borken!" -Tythus, 2014

[Space 2335]

"The most precious possession you have in the world is your own people. And for this people, and for the sake of this people; we will struggle and fight. And never slacken, never tire, never lose courage, and never lose faith."

Hitler quotes are always easy to spot.

[Gunner 775]

Moved to the Archive. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.