I just wanted to know of any quotes by anybody real or fiction that inspired you to do something or that you live by or whatever.
Or also you could put quotes from funny situatuations that happened.
Just a place to put quotes that others may not have heard.
Hagakure, by Yamamoto Tsunetomo:
To give a person one's opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult. When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way. Those two seem kind of like a contradiction but they're not if your think about it. There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.
Romani proverbs:
You cannot walk straight when the road bends.
"You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can get."
- Not sure of the author, but basically, don't hold back with the good stuff in life.
"We'll all float on..."
- Taken from the song "Float On" by Mighty Mouse. Don't let things get to you too often; it'll all be better in the end.
"Never trust a skinny chef."
- Heard it from a friend, but I doubt it was his originally. To put it lightly ( ) I'm a big guy, and also a Culinary Arts major. My thought is, if you're a heavy chef, you're not fat, you're experienced - you know what foods are good.
From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.
"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"
squilverine wrote:From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.
"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"
squilverine wrote:From our Sergeant whilst in basic training. It was a cold wet Friday evening we were practising drill for our passing out parade and kept fething it up badly.
"Come on you useless bunch of c***s your only wasting your own time, I'm in no rush to get home, my wifes ugly and I've got a salad in the fridge"
Epic
Simply epic
This isn't over it just means you all have to try harder to come up with thought provoking or funny qoutes.
"If you can carry it out, you can take it away.
If you can buy it, it can be bought.
If you can buy it, it can be stolen.
If you can break it, its already broken"
"The major difference between a thing that can not possibly go wrong and a thing that might go wrong is that when the thing that can not go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out that it's impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams
Then there's the opposite to the first of those quotes in the form of a Chinese proverb: "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, he who doesn't is a fool forever."
"If you find yourself with only two options, both are usually wrong."
"You are the only you that's ever existed. You're the best you there will ever be."
"Always make friends with the biggest guy in the room first."
"Love is just as much a mental thing as any kind of feeling. If you're with somebody you have to choose to be with them every day, even through the crappy times."
"OH SHI- you divided by zero didn't you??"
"CREEEEEEEED!!!" -any given person that got totally owned by tactical genius
"WAAAAGH!" -any given ork or enthusiastic wargamer
"turn, heretic." -the arbiter
"if they have come to hear me beg, they will be disappointed." - the arbiter
the entire trial scene at the beginning of halo 2
"DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA... i dakka'd it too much!" - a former manager of the GW near my house, after shaking a monolith so much that a piece broke off
"OBJECTION!!!"
"certainty of death... small chance of success... what're we waiting for??" -Gimli
any sentence begun with "Mr. Anderson"...
...and that's just off the top of my head.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
-last stanza from the poem "invictus"
The first is the sentence the roman slaves helding laurel crown over a victorious general head during victory parades were supposed to repeat all along the parade : "Don't forget you're a mortal and that glory is fleeting" (I hope the translation is correct though)
The second one is: "A vaincre sans périls on triomphe sans gloire" which is just a nice way to say :"No guts, no glory"
The last one is from a well known french movie writer from the 60s, Michel Audiard:
"As*****s dare everything, that's how we recognize them"
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
If anyone can recognize who its by , please tell me ( the sentence is from memory so not exact words of course lol )
It may take infinite amount of others to put up with 1 trouble maker, but it only take that 1 trouble maker to stop bothering infinite amount of others.
"Never be naive , never trust anyone. The more power you have the more enemies you will have waiting for every opportunity to bring you down."
"But you like trusting others? well grow up faster! "
I don't really live by it, but I try to remember it. I'm very risk averse, you see, so it's
difficult for me to take chances on things.
Here's the quote I leave in my email sigs, and therefore I read it every day:
"You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along."
-Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson, if you remember, was the cartoonist of Calvin and Hobbes. His words
I try to remember always.
Any manson lyrics. A lot fo them are pretty relivent . Liek your just a copy of an imatation ect. I dont really live by any though ,or by anything properly which people do or say. As Nietzche said put a question mark next to everything you belive in . I take that to mean see everything for what it is.
One quote I think I would have to take inspiration from is the one in my signature , the do not battle the monster ect. I take that for myself to mean there are those out there who will annoy you or go against you . You shouldnt stoop to thier level and be angry , just live your life becuaseit has nothing to do with them.
Automatically Appended Next Post: There are some really epic ones from beyond good and evil .
This thread has potential in Dakka Discussions, or in WH or 40k Discussions if someone wanted to start a discussion about quotes specifically relating to the game, or inspiring for their game play. That’s what I first thought it would be. I have a couple of great quotes from Paradise Lost and from Soldier, Ask Not that inspire me for my Fallen and Dark Angels armies.
I have three, two that inspire me to write, the other as it sums up a key part of history for me.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. - Walt Disney
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. - Gary Gygax
I cherish the memory of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said: 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said, "No. But I served in a company of heroes." - Sergeant Myron 'Mike' Ranney, easy, 101st Airborne
“I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes; if you feth with me, I'll kill you all.” - US Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders
“If you don’t live for something, you die for nothing.” – George Patton
“In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.” - Erwin Rommel
“To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.” - Douglas MacArthur
“When placed in command - take charge.” - Norman Schwarzkopf
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard--
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
-Rudyard Kipling
If you do not read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. - Mark Twain
I have a Randezous with Death
at some disputed barracade.
It may be he shall take my hand
and lead me into his dark land.
I have a randezous with Death,
and I to my plachid word am true
I shall not fail that randezous.
"Life is a school of probability." - Walter Bagehot
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle via Sherlock Holmes
"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong." - Saul Kripke
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"If you can't win, change the game." - Don't remember, though I say this a lot when talking to despondent peers.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Siddhārtha Gautama
George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask "why not"
Also good old God Emperor loving
"There is no such thing as innocence, only varying degrees of guilt."
From the reincarnation of the Tibetan Lama "Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings." Its very un-40k esque but it's the best piece of advice in general. I always remember it when I'm driving, because calm, safe, intelligent drivers en masse work much more efficiently than donkey-caves who weave in and out of lanes and fight for front lane.
"If you can't win, change the game." - Don't remember, though I say this a lot when talking to despondent peers.
Sounds a lot like:
Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
Kirk: What's on your mind, Lieutenant?
Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
Kirk: Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?
Saavik: On the test, sir... will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.
McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
Saavik: How?
Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
Saavik: What?
David Marcus: He cheated.
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose.
Saavik: Then you never faced that situation... faced death.
Kirk: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
Yes, yes it does. I may have just sumarized that exchange unconsciously, but I seem to have a memory of a specific source. I just can't recall it. I keep thinking that its Wall Street for some reason, but that seems wrong.
Words that I try to keep before me always: "You have heard it said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, do not resist evil."
And another favorite:
"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning faces with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept the fact that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing-down that will soften their real look." (Flannery O'Connor)
'I wanna fly like an eagle, I wanna sing like Sinatra, I gotta date with destruction, I wanna love like a mother...'
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
One of my favourite lyrics, that.
'As soon as your born they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all, 'til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, a working-class hero is something to be...'
John Lennon
So is that, the whole song really - I just didn't feel like posting it all!
I absolutely love the words to this... hymn, I guess:
Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land
That particular section of 'Jerusalem' always gives me goosebumps. Oh, and happy St. George's day!
Music is well said to be the speech of angels, in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
So in the Libyan fable it is told, That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'with our own feathers, not by others' hands, are we now smitten.
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort of another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time- we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.
When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands
My favorite Poem:The young recruit is silly- 'e
thinks o' suicide
'E's lost 'is gutter-devil; 'e 'asin't
got 'is pride;
But day by day they kicks 'im
which 'elps 'im on a bit,
Till 'e finds 'isself one mornin'
with a full an' proper kit.
Gettin' clear o' dirtiness, gettin'
done with mess,
Gettin' shut o' doin' things rather-
more-or-less
-Rudyard Kipling
Forgot where I heard it, but I use it to try and remain calm with the average person. I get annoyed/pissed easily with stupidity, so it calms the mind before I go off lol
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do"
"You can tell a lot about a man's character by the way he eats his jellybeans."
Prizes to who can guess the speaker.
Soladrin wrote:Wasn't that quote in Starship Troopers? XD Cause I think i've read that before. XD
"COME ON YOU MISERABLE PUKES! YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!?"
"For Pony!"
"What?! That can't be your battle cry! Mine is for honor and those long dea-"
"Well, mine is for ponies. For Pony!"
"I'm a Sexy Shoeless God of War!"
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
"People the better of 6 feet tall and half as wide often have uneventfull adventures. People jump out at them from behind rocks and say 'Oh i thought you were someone else'"
Never take life seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.
A human being should be able to change a diaper,
plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,
comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
I agree with the second poster. Tsunetomo Yamamoto's book, the Hagakure Kikigaki, or In the Shadow of the Leaves, is kind of like my bible, I started reading it when I first started studying japanese (nihongo)...still not fluent. But I love that book, and it also inspired one of my most favorite movies.
so...no quotes, but that ENTIRE book, also, The Art of War by Sun Tsu...
Soladrin wrote:Theres a difference between loving japan, and loving a good book.
Well, duh.
I am aware of that, genius. My point is that sometimes it seems like every second person on this site is in love with Japanese culture. I personally have no time for it.
I harp on about the Balaklava far too much I know, but one of my favourite quotes is from that particular field of battle.
As 1000+ Russian cavalry prepare to descend on his position, Colin Campbell tells the 100 infantry at his command (the 93rd Highlanders), "There's no retreat from here men, you'll die where you stand."
A simple statement of fact i.e. no point in running, because you'll be cut down as you flee, may as well stand and fight.
As the Russians advanced, the Highlanders fired two volleys which staggeringly forced the Russians into a retreat. Inspiring words indeed!
Soladrin wrote:Theres a difference between loving japan, and loving a good book.
Well, duh.
I am aware of that, genius. My point is that sometimes it seems like every second person on this site is in love with Japanese culture. I personally have no time for it.
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
I love all cultures. I like samurai because they were interesting. I like the book Hagakure because it gave interesting insight into the way a samurai thought about his world.
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
I started studying Japanese before the majority of the anime fan (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Wapanese) crowd fell in love with anime. This is largely cartoon networks fault, when it began airing "Tenchi Muyo" and "Inuyasha" back in the day. My interest in the language came from a massive research paper I wrote on Japanese culture from 50bc to 1950ad, that I wrote to get into college two years early, instead of finishing High School. I have gone to great lengths
to study as much as I can about Japanese culture and history. I am fascinated by ancient Japan, and the brutality of the Shogunate/Samurai Lifestyle. Being a photographer (architecture mainly) I love vintage Japanese architecture from late 70s and all through the 80s. I am a fan of a lot of Japanese music, mainly jazz. When I went to Osaka, I got became even more enamored. I thoroughly despise most anime, I can count the series and movies one two hands tha I enjoy, and most of them are animation from Japan, rather than your classic, low-frame, crap.* And it is a shame that the anime fan crowd that you speak of, on the interwebs, has over saturated the megaverse with their garbage...they even ruined Deviantart for me, and I have been there for over 5 years...they ruin everything....
so yes, a lot of people on the internet do love Japan, but some of us are legit.
and these movies, mainly AKIRA, are some of the main reasons why I have been drawing and creating my whole life, and why I am in school for animation and media arts.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I love how the word I use for "anime fan" is censored...wtf? it's no worse than saying "geek", or "nerd"?
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KingCracker wrote:
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS
"When in doubt, tell the truth and run."
Myself.
"Now while you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award Nomination for Best Suporting Actor.
Now go do that Voodoo that you do, so well!"
Hedey (The Hedley!) Lamar
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?
Now speaking in general wide terms that just beg for trouble but here goes:
They are highly disciplined people where everything is just so, while also the most strange twisted people in private you can ever know.
They are a study in contrast and seem to be able to express beauty in both these things.
But since I am not Japanese I will always be a Gaijin which will forever keep me at arm's length.
An example:
I do Kendo (Japanese sword fighting) and played against a much better player from Japan.
He hit the same spot on my armor at my collarbone 5 times, bruised like a son of a gun.
I thought he was a sadistic so and so demonstrating his superior skills.
Later, I found I had not tied my armor correctly and he was "politely" pointing out the error because he would NEVER be so rude to tell me in words.
They are like this and that makes them endearing / maddening as a culture.
Ah yes, to be true to the Forum:
"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy." - Sun Tzu
Albatross: I reckon is stems from a bunch of stuff.
-Nerds like "discovering" stuff and then talking about it with other nerds. Anime and Manga are nicely non-mainstream so it's possible to keep "discovering" new stuff all the time, if that's your MO.
-Far away = Better, for some reason.
-Kids like blood and swords and cartoons.
-Ninjas are cool, samurai are cool, these are both Japanese.
-Some Anime and Manga is actually really very good, and the difference in culture can mean that it is fresh and interesting for a westerner.
I realise that's all anime and manga focused, but I assume that is mostly what you're talking about.
Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.
Orlanth wrote:Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.
It's a lesson most over here have forgotten.
They don't mention starting that whole WWII thing very much though do they...
I believe, for Orlanth, Hitler started WWII and Japan came later. Though I am ignorant of the British involvement in the Pacific, and if it predates Dec 7, 1941.
Orlanth wrote:Japan comes acroess in a positive way because they dont piss on their own culture, even allowing for the comics and even with the westernisation of Japan.
It's a lesson most over here have forgotten.
They don't mention starting that whole WWII thing very much though do they...
My bad I meant Japan started WWII on the Asian side, although their intial expansion goes back to Manchuria. I'm sure none of that is expressed in detail or why the Americans unilaterally started attacking innocent Japan and how shortly thereafter the British started attacking Japan for no reason, and how the Russians started attacking them for no reason.
"You gotta scratch like nobody's watching and f**k like you don't need the money." ~Crystal from Squidbillies
"Dear Lord, please bless this meal of spent lottery tickets with their seasoning of silvery scratchings, and let them nourish our bodies as they were unable to do so for our wallets. And thank you for the untimely frost you sent, what destroyed my pointless banana orchard. Oh, I was a fool for planting bananas on a mountain Lord, you made sure of that. In short, thanks for nothing." ~Early Cuyler
I live by three very important quotes.
