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Inspired by Atrocities trying to find the source of a quote, I think it'd be neat to collect a bunch of good quotes and their sources. I like quotes. Don't know why... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Please try to keep the thread clean, without letting it devolve into something...else. Like most threads do after a short time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I go first!

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I know, Nietzsche was a bit of a freak, but I like the quote for some reason.

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"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! !!!!!!" - The SW Emporer, reflecting on the ultimate futility of interfering in familial relations.

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For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.

Then Agin I'm about to Quote some Churchill, so I can't really talk http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Just trying to find one short enough, a great man for speeches but long winded at times http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

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"Don't be worried about that bullet with your name on it, worry about the battle cannon shell with "To Whom it may concern."
-Some soldier from some war http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

"Retreat Hell we're just advancing in the other direction."
-Wasn't that Patton?

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"Don't worry men, they couldn't hit an elephant at this..."

last words of a US officer.

Some more Churchill.

Lady MP "If you were my Husband sir, I would poison you"
Churchill "If you were my Wife I'd drink it"

Lady MP "You sir are drunk!"
Churchill "And you're ugly, but I'll be sober in the morning"

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"This is my BOOOM Stick!"
'Yup fella's, you left your back door wide open on that one!"

"Its right here plain as purple crayon!"

"Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Do you see any flying cars?" - Unknown but sounded like 'Sisko - DS9'

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From "Sean of the Dead", one of the finest films ever made:

"You want to put your lives into the hands of this man, a man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and impenetrable fortress are one and the same?"

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I remember seeing that - it was on a commercial, with the actor that played Sisko - for computers, I think.

"Until now, I didn't think it was possible for someone to force me into being trustworthy." Sam Starfall

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sigh
No one remembers Hawk.

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Nope: That quote is from Gen Chesty Puller, United States Marine Corps, who was in command of the First Marine Division at Chosin, Korea, when he found the allied flanks on either side of him had collapsed and he was facing roughly seven Chineese divisions trying to encircle and demolish his command. He got his division out, and ground up a few chineese divisions in the process.

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"What do you mean they cut the power? How could they cut the power man, their animals?"

"Game over man, game [censored] over!!!!!!!!!!!" - I love this one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif The ultimate bad *** pooped himself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded."
-Taken from the splashscreen upon researching Probability Mechanics in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

"Ommmmmmminous Hummmmmmm....."
-Do I need to explain? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

There's load more but I gone and forgot 'em.

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I love these:

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

"Nuts"

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Am I really that predictable? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

[b]"If you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

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"There's an ugly name for those who do things the hard way." The Cheshire Cat

"If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut." LAT

"All artists are willing to suffer for their art. So few are willing to learn to draw." Don't know who, but it is worringly true. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Spock quotes: http://tvsothertenpercent.tripod.com...rek/spock.html

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"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Churchill

"Vae victis" (Woe to the conquered)
-Brennus, leader of the Celtic army ransoming the city of Rome in 390 BCE.

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!"
-unknown / various

and because its expected of me:
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. "
-RD knows who...

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But Nietzsche produces such great quotes! Twilight of the Idols, for example.

#1 -- Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Should psychology be a vice?
(Footnote by the translator, Walter Kaufman, explains that there is a German proverb: Idleness is the beginning of all vices.)

#3 -- To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.

#8 -- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

His early work is not so famous, but equally interesting.

from Human, All Too Human

#87 -- Luke 18:14 improved "He that humbleth himself wants to be exalted."

#499 -- Friend. -- Fellow rejoicing [Mitfreude], not fellow suffering [Mitleiden], makes the friend.

#536 -- Value of tasteless opponents -- Sometimes one stays faithful to a cause only becaus its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

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how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

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Nietzsche usually used 'herd' rather than 'pack'. But there are nuances even in his condemnations:

Human, All Too Human, #233 -- For the despisers of 'herd humanity'. -- He who regards men as a herd and flees from them as fast as he can will certainly be overtaken by them and gored by their horns.

But, over-all he does despise public morality, that is, rigid notions of 'custom' and 'propriety':

Daybreak #19 -- Morality makes stupid. -- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful -- but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

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I always thought this one was appropriate for SEIV:

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way"

John Paul Jones

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Star Trek Emporer? Some guy who sells stuff in the Star Trek universe? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

*****

"Colonel O'Neil, what the hell do you think you're doing?!?"
"What?! In the middle of my BACKSWING?!"

"Uh, this would appear to be a severe malfunction....."
-Some TV reporter talking about the Challenger..... he said this several minutes after the explosion. When it had just exploded he continues quoting statistics about altitude, speed etc.

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"We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war." - Any One? If you said Macarthur you are right.

In DS9 Admiral Ross also said these words when the Dominion signed the documents of surrender.

"We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war."

"I am your father." - Vader to Luke Skywalker "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" - Luke Skywalker

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The error is corrected. The spelling mistake is fine.

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"Purple alert. This is not a daffodil. Abandon shop!"
-Phil, in the Insanity thread

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That's actually the female Holly from Red Dwarf

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Ahhh back when Red Dwarf was good.. **sniff** happy memories.

Cat: "You're going to go with one of my plans? Are you nuts? What happens if we all get killed? I'll never hear the last of it."

From that wonderfull half hout of joy "Gunmen of The Apocalypse" which also includes another favourite

Lister: "Maybe it's the moonlight, but I've got to admit you're looking pretty good for a corpse."

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F*** even the future nothing works!

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"I saw clouds last night. I was Cold. I was colder then ice. I have had no food. I have had no sleep. And then you pour green filth on me...." -From Titus Groan, said by Steerpike to Fuchsia.

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"It's cold, so bitterly cold here in this fridge." Vic Reeves

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Your safe boundaries were once unknown horizons. - I forget

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Nurse: Well, she doesn't have a temperature.
David: That doesn't sound good. Are you sure she has NONE? Not even a bit of one?

I should have been a comedian. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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"It's possible... pig. I might be bluffing. It's concievable... you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again, perhaps I have the strength after all...
Drop... your... sword!!"

-the Man in Black, "Princess Bride" (The greatest, campiest movie of all time IMHO)

Regards,
Turin

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...and from the same:

"Jou keep using that hword... I do not think it means what you think it means."

-Inigo Montoya ("HELLO!! My name is..." uh-oh don't get me started... lol )

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"All of your bases belong to us!"
"Ancient treaties stipulate that the SOL system belongs to us."

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It's supposed to be 'All your base are belong to us.'

In some countries you would have been whipped for such a blatant mis-quote.

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"Greetings Hunam! How do you wish to torture me today?" - Spathi Commander, Star Control 2

"The power of the ancients is now yours to command... You have crushed all opposition beneath your heel..." - Victory sequence, Master of Orion II

"Fight, Megaman! For everlasting peace!" - Victory sequence, Megaman (NES)

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Ah yes, thanks.

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"Is this a joke? Because if it is, it's NOT very damn funny!" - Poster on the MOO3 forums in reference to the game MOO3 after its release.

"I'm not addicted to playing SEIV, I just have to do one more turn." - Atrocities

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"Chew, and swallow." - Me, in responce to the question 'How can you eat all that?'

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One of my favourites from Red Dwarf:
Hideous mutant vampire polymorph disguised as a beautiful woman: "Hi, 'm the Genetic Mutant"
Cat: "Jenny who?"

From http://www.sockbaby.com (episode 1)
"Go back to your alien brethren, and tell thedm that Ronnie Cordova says they're gay!"
(Normally I wouldn't find that funny, but sockbaby is awesome.)

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"Me, me, me"....."Me too" Agent Smith 1 says the first part, to Agent Smith 2 (who says the second part) in the Matrix Reloaded after Agent Smith 1 takes over the body that became Agent Smith 2's. I dunno, I just love that, maybe you have to have seen it. Great movies.

It is like wiping your *** with silk. - The Merovingian in the Matrix Reloaded. That one cracks me up too.

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"Never - EVER - invade unless you know you can outsmart the enemy at all points. And even then make sure you outnumber him at least 10 to 1!"
-me

"War is decided by the smallest of inconveniences - rioting border colonies, drops in construction speed due to pop leaving the planet on a colonizer, stars going nova without reason....."
-again, me

"They haven't defeated you until they've destroyed all your stars, wiped out your colonies, eliminated all orbital defenders and have overwhelming ground forces on your homeworld..... and even THEN you're not defeated!"
-again, me

"What do you mean, the Emperor of the Khartozia Imperium needs a life just because he's referring to himself in the third person nowadays?"
-me..... again

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"Shazzabot!"

"I intend to wipe them off of the face of this Earth with the fury of Gods own wrath."

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"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." - Marketing slogan for MOO3, which was unfortunately much less successful than whatever famous general the quote was taken from http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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No it was unfortunate, MOO3 just wasn't any good. It was a crushing disappointment that's why it wasn't successful, nothing unfortunate about it.

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I'm sure that was some prussian general...
*rummage*

Karl Von Clausewitz. Heh, watching lot's of Documentaries is really beginning to pay-off.

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" ~ Theodore Roosevelt http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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"Just tell me the universe isn't going to fall apart and kill me and I'm good." - The unaptly named Dandy

"The universe isn't going to fall apart and kill you." - The unaptly named Mistake

"Then see, I'm good." - Dandy

http://www.dandyandcompany.com/ - A boy, 'his' dog, their respective girlfriends, his dogs' brother, his dogs' brothers' faithfull killer robot, the crocadile in the back yard, the boys' evil double, the boys' dogs' evil double, the boys' dogs' brothers' evil double, aliens, government conspiracies, superheroes, a cosmic beanie, evil robot dogs...I have a vague memory of a talking frog...

...Confused yet?

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'"What was that?" Jerry asked, peering over the edge.
"I think it was a ninja dwarf," Wiz said wonderingly.
Danny frowned. "That sounds like a character from a D&D game." He thought for a second. "A bad D&D game."'

Rick Cook, The Wizardry Cursed. I've quoted him before in these threads, and never used up everything. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif