X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=15108c21d7a0390a0fc6a5c194e1bb86a718720f;hb=ec85b1311460e12f6172f4a6d875efec759642ba;hp=4386256cd9e2fb7cfb91254209a015acc191a616;hpb=0409088f4752b354bc0c3b05708cb6c4e81b92ce;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 4386256..15108c2 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune cookie. -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html % -Three little words. (In descending order of importance.) -I -love -you - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php +Three little words. (In order of importance.) + █████ + █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ + █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you + █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ + █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words" % N: Why should I believe that?" B: Because it's a fact." @@ -257,13 +258,14 @@ sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen % Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired -signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are -not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is -not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, -the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a -way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is -humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 +signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those +who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending +money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of +its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of +life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it +is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other +way the world may live? + -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 % A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. @@ -988,3 +990,26 @@ to be afraid. % 6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2. -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_ +% +2: There is no out. There is only in. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" +% +6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I +don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I +have scars and wounds. Sometimes when I can't bear them anymore, I +drink. You can't fix me. You can't fix any of us. You can't make us +perfect. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_ +% +We want 6. 6 is the 1. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_ +% +I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's +like sugar, good luck. At first it's very sweet, but after a while you +start to think: any more of this and I shall be sick. + -- Adam Roberts _Yellow Blue Tibia_ p301 +% +I cannot find rest +Because I am powerless +To amend a broken world. + -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295