- “I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying."
"Silk," The Belgariad. (It's like how my dad tried to teach me to see the world. Life sucks, but if you don't poke at it you're going to be horribly miserable.)
— Captain_Shrug - *"It was so much easier to blame it on Them.
It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us.
If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault.
If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us.
I must be.
I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them.
No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them.
We're always one of Us.
It's Them that do the bad things."*
Terry Pratchett, Jingo (Discworld, #21)
— Chocorelli - "Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute" - Edgar Allan Poe
— IGIXXX - "None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear"
-Ferdinand Foch, French WW1 Marshall
Bonus quote by the same man:
"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking."
— Heiminator - A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck
— veggytheropoda - Helen:
Everyone's special, Dash.
Dash:
Which is another way of saying no-one is.
-The Incredibles
— YamiGada - "are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?" - Harper Lee
— -GoddessAthena- - When you do something right, people wont be sure you did anything at all. -futurama
— SneakyPrick - "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches" - Dita Von Teese
— homtendy - "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his." - General George S. Patton
— theRealSection - “I don’t put the napkin on my lap at a restaurant because I believe in myself.” - Hannibal Buress
— redalienguy1101 - "The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion."
John Lawton
— Gator_Engr - "Whenever I'm about to do something , I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing." – Dwight Schrute
— lowkeypapi - *"It's hard for evil to take hold of an unconsenting soul."*: Ursula K. Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea
— ssegota - “No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr, if one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You can call me Meyer.”
-Hermann Meyer
— teltjeger - It's possible to do everything right and still fail. That's not weakness, that's life
— jennytopssky - "Everyone wants to save the world; no one wants to help Mom do the dishes." --PJ O'Rourke
— imurme8 - The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams
— eyekwah2 - We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
— HeffalumpGlory