Comments on: Quotables

By: Tzalaran

Tzalaran — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:07:21 +0000

“I’d rather hate myself for failing, than hate my life for never having tried.” – All That Remains

“Success leads to stagnation. Stagnation leads to failure.” – Vlad Taltos

“Do not let one’s tongue outrun one’s sense.” – Chilon

By: Cody Sheppard

Cody Sheppard — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:51:29 +0000

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

By: knob_e

knob_e — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:16:06 +0000

John Savage facing off against Controller Mustapha Mond on the subject of compulsory monthly Violent Passion Surrogate treatments as part of a state-provided health care plan:

[Mond] “We prefer to do things comfortably.”

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”

“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”

– Aldous Huxley, *Brave New World*

By: Mike Acuna

Mike Acuna — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:13:45 +0000

I must make a point of telling Sethra not to underrate the power of the hissy-cow. – Vlad

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:51:35 +0000

@skzb Alas. Hoist by my own petard. Or something.

The only thing worse than looking for authentic quotes on the internet is incorrectly attributing authentic quotes on the internet .–Oscar Wilde

By: JP

JP — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:37:45 +0000

Kate: “What was Sherlock Holnes’ priciple? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’”

Dirk: I reject that entirely. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks…. The first idea merely suppose something we don’t know about, and God knows there are enough of those. The second, however, runs contrary to something fundamental and human which we do know about. We should therfore be suspicious of it, and all it’s specious rationality.”

Douglas Adams, “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”

By: Isalith

Isalith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:18:55 +0000

” Two dead Teckla under your pillow” – Loish

By: Isalith

Isalith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:16:51 +0000

Malcom Reynolds-” Looks like we got here just in time, what does that make us?”

Zoe- ” Big Damn Heroes Sir!”

Malcom Reynolds- ” Ain’t we just.”

Firefly Episode Titled : Safe

By: skzb

skzb — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:35:29 +0000

I love that one, Dennis. Only it was Twain.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:20:25 +0000

Fair enough, Here is the source for my quote:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/middle_class.html#order_1