Quotes

I always see profound/witty/inspirational quotes littered around the internet, but I never remember them exactly. Post your favorite quotes here (with source if known).


"'Sir, we are surrounded.'
'Good, then we can fire in any direction.'"

"'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” - Game of Thrones

 

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire

 

My three favorite quotes are from Hunter S. Thompson:

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."

Another profound piece was his suicide note titled Football Season is Over:

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt."

 

" I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."

- Sylvia Plath

 

If size ruled the elephant would be the king of the jungle - Anderson Silva

 

Your problem today are most likely going to be your problems tomorrow. Learn to deal with them and get over them.

 

If you can't live the life you love, just love the life you live.

 

"Live simply, so other people can simply live."

 

"no" - rosa parks

 

“You may leave school, but it never leaves you.” Andy Partridge

"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin

“Equality may perhaps be a right – but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” Honore de Balzac.

It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to. Unknown

 

"There are no men like me, only me" - Game of Thrones

 

"no try not! do, or do not. there is no try" - Yoda

 

"I'm not a rocket scientist. In fact I'm not any kind of scientist, nor am I a rocket." - Dom Mazzetti

 

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.” Ben Franklin

 

"It was sunny because the universe does not care about the grief of men."

Random Redditor wrote a story and it has stuck with me ever since.

 

"She was DTF. Definitely too fat. Not for me though." - Dom Mazzetti

 

"I'm not a business man, I'm a business man" - Dom Mazzetti/Jay-Z

 

"Having to explain to your doctor for the millionth time that it's cool. He spent 12 years studying the body, you spent 12 months building the body. I don't need to listen to your bullshit science for regular people, 'cause I'm a fuckin' animal, and last time I checked you're not a vet, so beat it doctor islittle." - Dom Mazzetti, literally the greatest thing ever said.

 

This was in the new Transformers movie. The quote has such a strong meaning and made allot of thoughts run through my head.

 

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in"