Quotes...

[Grim Squeaker]

I've found that the most profound and interesting quotes come from the most unusual places. You get funny quotes from basically anywhere but actually interesting quotes are gems that appear once in a while in the post unexpected places.

 

So that's what this thread is for. Feel free to post quotes that actual made you think (NOT funny ones). And obviously post where they came from so that we can look confused. I'll start the ball rolling with two quotes I have used as signatures:

 

 

You hold the answer deep within your own mind.

Consciously you've forgotten it.

That's the way the human mind works.

Whenever something is too unpleasant,

too shameful for us to entertain,

we reject it,

we erase it from our memory.

 

But the imprint is always there,

nothing is ever really forgotten...

 

Lyrics from the Evanescence song: Understanding.

 

 

Why are the innocent punished?

Why the sacrifice?

Why the pain?

 

There aren't any promises.

Nothing's certain.

Only some get called.

Some get saved.

 

She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind.

We commit this body to the void with a glad heart...

 

Within each seed there's the promise of a flower.

And within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life.

 

A new beginning.

 

Dillon's words at the cremation in Alien 3.

[Andyr]

Unrelated to the fact it is the basis for a name of a new mod, I like:

 

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

 

http://www.jimpoz.com/quotes/speaker.asp?s...orge+Whitefield

[Bri]

...And it came to pass that into this time of great turmoil, there came a man clad simply and carrying unto himself little else than a harp, the likes of which I have yet to see. He made known that he was Bard. He went unto the house of a village elder, asked lodging, and was granted it. There he stayed and he sang from the green and played the songs which drifted into the air as if they were the air itself.

One afternoon I made to inquire of him his whereabouts and what was Bard. He said unto me: 'You speak little else to me but nonsense. Speak clearly and I shall answer as I can.'

 

He took the harp into his lap. 'What then is your trade?'

 

'I am Bard. Mine is the way of music, song, and tale. In this lies my being.'

 

'Then you are a minstrel or story-teller?'

 

'I am both and neither. I am minstrel and story-teller in what I do, but I am Bard in what I am.'

 

'I do not understand.'

 

'Then listen and I shall make it known to you. Music lies at the base of the world. It is magic in itself, and it contains other things that are it's nature. I am Bard and bound to the music, as it is my existence. I work the music as a fine silversmith works the silver into a cup. So I work the music into a fine remembrance of the past. Or time hence. Or man and woman present. So the music works for me and does my bidding, as I in turn do its bidding in the working.'

 

'You speak of magic as the music and music as the magic. Which is it then? Is music the cause of the magic, or is magic the cause of the music?'

 

'Both are true. In playing the song I am working in the magic, and in working in the magic I am drawn to work a song. Such is my call.'

 

'What of tales then?'

 

'They are great and beauteous. In splendor they cannot be equaled, for the Gods run thru them as the maids run through fields of grass in the Spring.'

 

'What Gods are these of which you speak?'

 

'All Gods to some, and none to others. It is as you see. And then it is as it is.'

 

'What of these do you worship?'

 

'I worship none and I worship all. I worship not, and devoutly pray unto the Muses. Mine is not the way of the zealot, but of the song.'

 

'How then do you work your magic if the Gods are not yours?'

 

'Ahh, but they are mine. I do not see the Gods as they appear to others, but as they are in the song of a bird in summer, or a stream in the Spring. My magic is not of them, but is them of their essence. It aids them to survive and pierces their nature as the light pierces the darkness.'

 

And so I bid him let me rest, that I might ponder and inquire further on the morrow. As I left him, I heard a sweet melody drift into the hollows...

 

-- Taliesyn map Avaon

[MyFinalHeaven]

"Death belongs to god alone.By what right do men touch that unknown thing?"

 

"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is guilty in not providing universal free education,and it must answer for the night it produces.If the soul is left in darkness,sins will be commited.The guilty one is not he who commits the sin,but the one who causes the darkness"

 

both from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.Great book,even if he rambles on for pages and pages.He describes the whole battle of waterloo just to set up about 1 page of history for a secondary character.

[Andyr]

Bri: Please to be posting the source of your quote.

[Loké]

I got this quote from Operation Flashpoint:

 

War does not determine who is right. Only only is left.

[Userunfriendly]

"never underestimate the power of human stupidity" robert a. heinlein.

[Andyr]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

-- Albert Einstein

 

Another good one.

 

http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1349

[Sav]

"never underestimate the power of human stupidity" robert a. heinlein.

That sounds like something what Bullet Tooth Tony says in Snatch. I think it was "You should never underestimate the predicability of stupidity"

[BigRob]

"Will cloning ever take off? Put it this way: I can think of an easier and more fun way of making a human being."

 

Professor Sydney Brenner.

 

 

Not a perfect quote, since I can't remember exactly what he said, but I laughed my arse off when I heard it.

[Grim Squeaker]

"Will cloning ever take off? Put it this way: I can think of an easier and more fun way of making a human being."

 

Professor Sydney Brenner.

 

 

Not a perfect quote, since I can't remember exactly what he said, but I laughed my arse off when I heard it.

Not particularly profound but quite funny...

 

I read this one off of a desk in one of my lecture theaters:

 

'Physics is like sex. Both have practical applications but that's not why we do it!'

 

Anyway back to profound thoughts about the meaning of life...

[Userunfriendly]

"Will cloning ever take off? Put it this way: I can think of an easier and more fun way of making a human being."

 

Professor Sydney Brenner.

 

 

Not a perfect quote, since I can't remember exactly what he said, but I laughed my arse off when I heard it.

they just cloned a kitty cat....

[BigRob]

Not particularly profound but quite funny...

 

I read this one off of a desk in one of my lecture theaters:

 

'Physics is like sex.  Both have practical applications but that's not why we do it!'

 

Anyway back to profound thoughts about the meaning of life...

Considering the hysteria surrounding cloning in general, I thought it was a little profound.

 

they just cloned a kitty cat.... 

And now, it's apparently watching television and drinking beer. What an age we live in.

 

Here's a sobering thought:

 

"The visible universe appears to have a radius of 14 billion light years because the universe is about 14 billion years old. The light from more distant objects simply has not had time to reach us. For this reason everybody in the universe will find themselves at the middle of their own visible universe. The precise scale of the universe is complicated by the fact that the universe is expanding. Galaxies we see near the edge of the visible universe emitted their light when they were much closer to us, and they will now be much further away.

 

The true size of the universe is probably much larger than the visible universe. The geometry of the universe suggests that it may have an infinite size and that it will expand forever. Even if the universe is not infinite, our visible universe must be a minute speck in a much larger totality."

 

- An Atlas of the Universe (http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/)

 

When a fourteen billion lightyear diameter sphere is a minute speck, how insignificant does that make us?

[KIrving]

"Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion."

Richard Bach.

[Grim Squeaker]

BigRob that certainly was profound. I shall have to meditate on this...