Favorite quotes

[Zaimat]

I've been meaning to do this for awhile now.. Gathering a list of historical/war/sci-fi/movie quotes and putting the best ones on the site and/or in the game to spice things up.

This is your chance to contribute and have a little fun at the same time. I think everyone likes reading these and I'm sure everyone can come up with a few. I've already got a short list and I'll be posting one a day until I run out.

The rules are simple:

1. Nothing political (at least nothing too recent that may offend anyone)
2. The source (who said it, from where, etc) if you know

Those who come up with extra good lines, well let's just say they may score bonus brownie points.
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[Zaimat]

"I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit... It's the only way to be sure."

- From Aliens (movie)
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[RobHuntingdon]

"And so it begins." -- B5, Kosh (original), Season 1

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." -- Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, just before being fatally shot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 9, 1864.

"My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own." -- Honor Harrington, On Basilisk Station (1993), by David Weber.

"The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do." -- Honor Harrington, Flag In Exile (1995), by David Weber.

Guess I better leave some for others!

RH
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Robert, the Earl of Huntingdon

Tarry here, my merry men, whilst I seek what adventure await in yonder greenwood; but look thou listen for my call, for I will blow my horn if I become hard-pressed.

Adapted from Sterling, pg. 45

[Therlun]

"War is never an isolated act" Vom Kriege; Carl von Clausewitz

"Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness."
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells

"War is Peace." 1987, Orwell
or
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." 1987, Orwell

"War. War never changes." Fallout intro

"I am First, and I am dead.
As of this moment, we are all dead.
We go into battle to reclaim our lives.
This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar.
Remember: Victory is Life!" Star Trek, Jem Hadar dirge

"Victory is Life!" Star Trek, Jem Hadar

"Vi Et Armis."-"By force and arms." Cicero

"While there's life, there's hope." Cicero

"In a time of war, the law falls silent." Cicero

"The man who does not fear death is no hero, but a moron." me

[OrionSol]

"Wipe them out...all of them" Darth Sidious, Star Wars Ep I.

"It is not sufficient that I succeed--all others must fail."
-Genghis Khan

"All warfare is based on deception..." - Sun Tzu

"The solution reveals itself in two words... Orbital Bombardment" - Forest Moriarty

"In waking a tiger, use a long stick." - Mao Tse Tung

"Today is a good day to die" -Worf, Star Trek (every other episode)

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” - Marcus Aurelius

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” -Seneca

'I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle the matter by lunchtime.' — Napoleon, before Waterloo.

"There's no such thing as security in this world; there is only opportunity."
- General Douglas McArthur -

"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. "
- Seneca

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
- Albert Einstein

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. "
- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't attack walled cities."
- Sun Tzu

"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. "
- Aristotle

[Zaimat]

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time!" -Vince Lombardi

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." -by Douglas MacArthur

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." -Rick Moranis (Spaceballs, Lord Helmet)
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[Breniir]

"Struck, Sir? I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones, 23 Sep 1779

"No, you don't understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist."
-Ender Wiggins, Ender's Game (1977) by Orson Scott Card

"We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them" - Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, Chosin Reservoir, Dec 1950

"ENEMY ON ISLAND - ISSUE IN DOUBT" - Radio message from Cmdr Winfield S. Cunningham, Commander of US forces on Wake Island, 23 Dec 1942.

[Zaimat]

"Only two things are infinite
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the universe."
~ Albert Einstein

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe,
and sometimes I think we're not.
In either case the idea is quite staggering."
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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[arisen]

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

[Lexx_Luthor]

Its 3 o'clock in the morning.
Haha the Air Force never sleeps.
Buck honey, I'm not sleepy either.

- Dr. Strangelove http://www.strategic-air-command.com/gallery/movies/dr_strangelove.htm

[Leone]

"Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days"
"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are"
"One equal temper of heroic hearts,"
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will"
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

-- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" & Sinclair in "The Gathering"

(which happen to be the last 5 lines of Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "Ulysses")

[arisen]

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[Sajaki]

"I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but I know that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein

Hudson (who is a man):"Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez (who is a woman):"No, have you?"
Aliens

[Warcaster]

"At the end of the universe I envisage 3 survivors.
The cock-roaches,
Tyr Anasazi,
and Dylan Hunt trying to save the cockroaches."
- Tyr Anasazi, Andromeda Season 2

[Leone]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the war room!"
~Dr. Strangelove~

[specialist]

"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." - Gen. Omar Bradley

[AerionIstari]

Try? No Try. Do. Do or do not. There is no try.

Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back.

[DeckPrism]

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."

***Above quotes by Patton***

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." by Arthur C. Clarke

"In war, everyone is throwing curve balls. But ocassonaly someone throws a curve ball of such monumental proportions that it knocks the enemy back on their heels only to rise and salute." -by DeckPrism
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Do not let light shine upon your opponent's mind through a hole in your body.

[Warcaster]

"I have no idea what weapons will be utilised in world war 3. But I do know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
-Albert Einstein
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[Qev]

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."

- Bene Gesserit 'Litany Against Fear', Frank Herbert's Dune.