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"live without regrets" - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"Do nothing which is of no use." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." - Miyamoto Musashi |
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." - James Baldwin |
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"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie |
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"If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all." - Ender Wiggin - Enders Game |
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"Win first, ask questions later." - Enders Game |
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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." - Valentine - Enders Game |
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"So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other." "If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you." - Enders Game |
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"I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules, if you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly -- I'll beat you unfairly first... If I break this rule, they'll never let me be a commander. It would be too dangerous. I'll never have to play a game again. And that is victory." - Ender - Enders Game |
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"Remember, the enemy's gate is *down*." - Bean - Enders Game |
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"There is no meaning in having a war, unless one can end it in victory." - Gundam Seed |
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"The dove is a symbol of peace. It's not born with the kind of sharp beak or claws which could inflict a fatal attack. So they say that if these birds were pitted against each other, it would undoubtedly be a long gruesome battle." - Gundam Seed |
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"Nowadays"... "the top"... you always look forward. Sometimes it's nice to look behind you too. You might have forgotten something important." - Nodame Cantabile |
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." - Bertrand Russell |
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"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared." - PJ Plauger |
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"bleh, kinda lot to deal with for a hobby" - JFskyR on SC2 drama |
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"Win in life, have fun with SC." - SH on playing Soul Calibur |
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"X A's Xianghua makes me remember why I don't want X removed from the game." - Maverick1125 aka John aka PaletteSwap |
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"Hope Is a Lousy Defense." - Bill Joy |
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine |
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery |
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"Uh, Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back: our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?" - Homer Simpson |
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"When you do something well, people won't be sure you‘ve done anything at all." - Futurama |
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"The truth always has two faces." - Methuselah - Witch Hunter Robin |
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"The one's you'll miss the most, are the one's who leave the soonest." - Aramaki Daisuke - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex |
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"People are mysterious beings. They often react differently, even under the same circumstances." - Renton Thurston - Eureka 7 |
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"Freedom is something you have to fight for, rather than something you're given. Being free means to carry that burden." - Charles Beams - Eureka 7 |
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"What if we've merely become confused after seeing the truth when our previous understanding was so confined? Surely such a transition would be difficult." - Jobs - Eureka 7 |
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"Don't beg for things. Do it yourself, or else you won't get anything!" - Eureka seveN |
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"Get it by your own hands." - Song title from Eureka seveN |
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"I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he’d taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he’d taken a poll in Israel? … It isn’t the polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It’s right and wrong." - Harry S. Truman, 1952 |
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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - George Washington |
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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Ben Franklin |
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"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention." - Duguet |
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"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past." - Tyron Edwards |
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"Only a life lived for others is worth living." - Albert Einstein |
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"No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself." - Denis Waitley |
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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things." - Henry Ward Beecher |
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"Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife." - Proverbs 21:9 |
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar |
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - Charles F. Kettering |
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"He who stops being better, stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell |
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"If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative." - Zig Ziglar |
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"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude." - Zig Ziglar |
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"It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important." - Brooke Astor |
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"Power is the ability to do good things for others." - Brooke Astor |
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"Nothing preaches better than the act." - Benjamin Franklin |
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"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." - Paramahansa Yogananda |
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." - Robert Kennedy |
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"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one." - Unknown |
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"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness." - S. Cohen |
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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." - Confucius |
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"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." - George Bernard Shaw |
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." - Mark Twain |
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"Do good and care not to whom." - Italian Proverb |
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"One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese Proverb |
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"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill |
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"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." - Publilius Syrus |
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"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." - Gandhi |
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"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato |
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"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Bonnie Jean Wasmund |
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"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong." - Unknown |
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." - Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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"Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness--both the ones you have received and the ones you have given--you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter." - Dawna Markova |
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"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!" - Marcus Aurelius |
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"We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?" - Marcus Aurelius |
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"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." - Douglas Noel Adams |
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - Kettering |
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"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
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"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Edgar Bergen |
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"Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow." - Czech Proverb |
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"Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise." - Czech Proverb |
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"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." - Czech Proverb |
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"When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears." - Czech Proverb |
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"The big thieves hang the little ones." - Czech Proverb |
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"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio |
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"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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"Stan - You don't even know anything about Christianity! Cartman - I know enough to exploit it." - South Park |
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"Family, Religion, Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to suceed in business." - Mr. Burns - The Simpsons |
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"I only wrote that poem to test my printer!" - Lrrr - Futurama |
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"You know, it's attitudes like that that keep you people from getting invited to all the really good parties!" - Quark - Deep Space Nine |
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"It's a giant Koenma!" - Kuwabara - YuYu Hakusho |
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"Ha ha. Oh, this is so good it just HAS to be fattening." - Stewie - The Family Guy |
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"Receptionist: How do you write women so well? Melvin Udall: Easy. I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability." - As Good As It Gets |
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"If you're not a girl and you're not kissing another girl, then get out of my way so I can get to the fridge." - Saif @ Ben and Aaron's party trying to navigate the kitchen |
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"My fastest days at work are ones where I spend 90% of the day trying to get something crazy to work." - Phil |
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"They're Smash(SSBB) players. I could entertain them by taking out my keys (and shaking them.)" - Tanya aka Coolsvilla |
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"I take issue with that. I'm going to need to see some documentation." - Tim Royce |
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"I'll tell you a secret; I have pretty much given up on forums, and I am close to giving up on people" - PriestofB aka Jim |
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"My balls then placed a call to my brain to call it an asshole." - Travis aka Akashic Drifter |
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"This will take some time; we can have it done tomorrow, possibly." - Carlos Moreno of Toydrum Inc - in an email to a client |
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"You can't swim during the day." - Carlos Moreno |
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"i don't have a wing i belong to, i am too fucking cool for a wing. i'd need the whole mansion, baby." - Priest of B - aka Deathgod |
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"I'm invincible. I am the gold bomber." - Tony Aka Sir Tony |
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"I've always considered Saif the WCMaxi of Tulsa, except cuddly." - Sparky Aka Diablo Aka Gary |
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"Friends don't let friends play Tekken.™" - Saif 'XianghuaALPHA' Khan |
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"05:58.PM - XianghuaALPHA: yea, Sophie in 3 is a whore 05:58.PM - Ashley3: yeah. 05:59.PM - Ashley3: i <3 her though. 05:59.PM - Ashley3: she can give me whatever disease she wants. 05:59.PM - Ashley3: i'll even pay for it." - Ashley 3.5 on Sophitia from Soul Calibur 3 |
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"But while she's interesting, I can't see myself being a better person for her company on a constant basis... and that's really what's important." - Ben - StickBen |
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"01:51.PM - Ashley3: you know what my dream guy would do? He would be an engineering major, and quote dilbert comics to me." - Ashley 3.5 |
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"I trust Ben, but you gave me small skinless creatures." - Jeremy - Hollywood |
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"My conclusion is you are some sort of sex-drive sinkhole." - Robbie - SquirrelsUnite |
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"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate." - Anon. |
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"Extremely Cute Exploding Puppies—your enemies will never know what hit them. It might be easier for me to laugh at that if my father hadn't died that way." - Craig Kilborn |
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"Don't yell at her, Daddy. She's not mommy." - Eric Idle |
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"hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is." - <erno> |