X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=533fdc43bae3bbb7f0636fda0b2cc8a8e388158c;hb=24bd15557ed361c730a1d80229b943dd67aad181;hp=4386256cd9e2fb7cfb91254209a015acc191a616;hpb=0409088f4752b354bc0c3b05708cb6c4e81b92ce;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 4386256..533fdc4 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 +990,88 @@ 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 +% +What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where +they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal +tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get +enlightenment after something like that. I think all anyone really +wants, if they're honest with themselves, is a quiet, easy life +surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed]. + -- OP from 99chan +% +Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon +partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately +purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise. +% +The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with +freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With +due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental +agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective. + -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al. +% +[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. +It always defeats order, because it is better organized. + -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4 +% +Your absence has gone through me +Like thread through a needle. +Everything I do is stitched with its color. + -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107 +% +Logs drowse in the pond +Dreaming of their heroes +Alligator and crocodile + -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77 +% +Once, our bodies were bells: +Simply moving in the wind +We tolled our names. + -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55 +% +It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief. +Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief. + -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31 +% +I would like to be the air +that inhabits you for a moment +only. I would like to be that unnoticed +& that necessary. + -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140 +% +I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless +thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It +looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing. +[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything. + -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117 +% +Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men +who send young men out to die. + -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73) +% +"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress +disorder?" [...] +"Who isn't?" + -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121