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Ever hear or see a statement in a movie, tv show, comic, game, etc. that you considered to be profound?

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The Duke...

https://www.azquotes.com/vangogh-image-quotes/42/18/Quotation-John-Wayne-All-battles-are-fought-by-scared-men-who-d-rather-42-18-19.jpg

“Many who die deserve life; can you give it to them? Do not be eager to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.” Gandalf, Fellowship of the Ring

I was going to go for that gandalf one.

Another of his that I like 'its a dangerous business, stepping out of ones front door'

"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." - Tuco, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

And, of course, there is this one from my signature:
https://youtu.be/kf0ZvY2usbY?t=38

“Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.” - Twin Peaks

"The man without hope, is the man without fear" - Daredevil

"The man who has nothing still has faith" - Dawn of War

"We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance." - Malazan

"No such thing as spare time / No such thing as free time / No such thing as down time / All you got is lifetime"
-Henry Rollins, Shine

"Listen Kid, I dont know whats goinf to happen to you out there, All I can tell you is that..... you got to play the hand you are dealt. Sometimes you are going to win, sometimes you are going to lose, but atleast you are in the game." Vic Fontaine, DS9

There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. That's what sin is.
- Granny Weatherwax (Carpe Jugulum) by Terry Pratchet

Code Geass is filled with these in my book;

We judge ourselves by what we feel we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Change will never come about if you don't make it happen.

If strength is justice, is powerlessness a crime?

Everyone knows how to use lies. In front of family. In front of friends. In front of society. We all wear different masks. Is that a sin?

When will the war end? When someone wins.

Things that don't change go extinct.

For an anime series with a very juvenile sense of things at time, it can drop some one liners that both feel like stating the obvious but are also things I didn't really think much about before I saw it. There's probably much more profound media out there, but for me Code Geass was a piece of Media that had a profound effect on the kinds of questions I started asking myself when I was getting to old to still be young. I'd also have to give points to Mobile Suit Gundam OO and Lockon Stratos;

The only thing you can change about the past is how you feel about it in the present.

Frozenthunderbolt wrote:
There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. That's what sin is.
- Granny Weatherwax (Carpe Jugulum) by Terry Pratchet

Out of the main trinity of Sir Terry self inserts Granny is head and pointy hat above Vimes and Death although my sig is a good one

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

Frozenthunderbolt wrote:
There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. That's what sin is.
- Granny Weatherwax (Carpe Jugulum) by Terry Pratchet

Out of the main trinity of Sir Terry self inserts Granny is head and pointy hat above Vimes and Death although my sig is a good one

Only issue with your sig, Death doesn't have quotation marks in his dialog. Neither does the Death of Rats. SQUEAK

fair point, Shire eduction has alway been wary of these new fangled letters over runes and my 2:2 degree in Vegetable Herding wasnt really that wordy

From an obscure RPG.




Yes, sometimes you can be a dead white knight who does no good or a somewhat dirty good guy who does some good. As long as you're less evil then what you're fighting you're doing some good instead of none.

"If you're not first, you're last!" - Ricky Bobby

Only in death does duty end.

Doesn't sound very profound...

... unless you are a parent!

Honestly, it's accurate about boxing and life.

If you've ever actually done boxing, you'll know your first 'lessons' are usually your coach beating the crap out of you to teach you how to drop your fear of being hit.

Life is bigger, meaner, and scarier than you'll ever be. See, the thing about it is? Life can hit you like a truck once, maybe twice. But just like boxing, you start to see the 'tells' for a certain punch, and you know what's coming and how to mitigate it. It might connect. If it does, it'll still hurt. But it's nothing new, you know what to do next, so you can keep going.

Few things in life are as disturbing as seeing someone smile while they've got a mouthpiece, because they know they can take what's being dished out to them.

Another of my favorites, one that still makes me soggy in my eyeballs...




Yeah, this one. A lot of this one.

Sometimes, it helps to have someone down in the hole. Just that they're there means the world.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
--Thorin, The Hobbit

"Do you know the most demeaning thing you can do to the law that we should respect? Creating and administering a law that is unworthy of protection."
--Akane, Psycho Pass

Some of this always felt profound to me in some way.

"Take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act" - Mother Superior Calderón, RDR2

"If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you'll ever see" - Uncle Iroh, ATLA

"There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle." - Edward Elric, FMA.

"For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall." - Joshua Graham, Fallout: New Vegas Broken Hearts DLC

That Punisher one triggered a memory from that series.... i don;t recall it exactly, but it felt pretty close to home at the time....

"Why are you always so angry Frank?"

"Because it beats feeling sad all the time."

I don’t know if it quite counts as profound, but there’s a great Dr Who quote from one of the Matt Smith Christmas specials (unfortunately I couldn’t find a clip), where the guest star is a young man and he asks for advice about his first kiss with his childhood sweetheart. The exchange goes something like:

Dr: plan on it being weird, wet and slippery.
Boy: urgh, really? Is that what kisses are supposed to be like?!
Dr: No, but it’s your first time, you won’t get it right, so you may as well make it part of the plan.


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I always thought that was a brilliant piece of advice.

 Jadenim wrote:

Dr: plan on it being weird, wet and slippery.
Boy: urgh, really? Is that what kisses are supposed to be like?!
Dr: No, but it’s your first time, you won’t get it right, so you may as well make it part of the plan.


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I always thought that was a brilliant piece of advice.

Man, thats just great for life in general lol.

I think some people dismiss what media has to say because, after all, its fake. and while that is true, people forget that media is written by, people.
All media exists because a writer wanted to say something, who knows what that something is or why, but that is why it exists.

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
I think that was G'Kar, but it may have been someone else. Definitely Babylon 5 though.

Also from that show:
"Vir, whatever it is, it can't be that bad."


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And from Planescape: Torment: "What can change the nature of a man?"

There are so many in Pratchett’s oeuvre it’s hard to single any out.

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

“ If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“ The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”


So, so many.

Lots from Joe Abercrombie, he's very quotable. I think my favourite, that I try to adhere to, is:

"Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it." - Logen Ninefingers, The First Law trilogy

Also, from Queens of the Stoneage?

“I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live”

I’ll let the individual poster pick the bones out of that, but I know what it means to me.

From the Dolph Lundgren 80's classic Masters of the Universe: Men who crave power often look back upon their own failings. They put it all in one pile and call it destiny.



Another quote from Sean Penn from the movie The Game: They f*** you, and they f*** you, and they f*** you. And just when you think it's over, that's when the real f***ing begins.

as my grey matter dissolves like a sponge in a washing machine I often cant link clever-bobbins to its inspiration like i used to unless like The Good Place it comes with tags

That said the whole I like the So-crates bit in the first Bill and Ted about "true wisdom comes from admitting you know nothing" whilst being a slight bending of a second hand source; a) totally fits the movie b) tragically predictive of how things are nowadays with "i dont know" being replaced by "i ( baselessy) reckon"

Hmm. How about every third line of Frank Herbert's Dune series?

I thought always thought this one was particularly beautiful:

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.