| Page 2 of 3 |
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
 Posted: Thu, 7th Aug 2008 12:45 Post subject: |
|
 |
Alan Moore (Watchmen) ^
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives.
So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. " ~Alan Moore
-----------------------------------------------------
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains. ~Sanskrit
-----------------------------------------------------
It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot
-----------------------------------------------------
On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. -Lloyd Garrison
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cohen
Posts: 7155
Location: Rapture
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Thu, 7th Aug 2008 13:53 Post subject: |
|
|
| kaeye wrote: | Ahhh.. what a wonderful film chinup  One of my faves. Its rich with meaning and memorable quotes.
"there are no coincidences Evey, only the illusion of coincidence." |
The Graphic Novel is even better. Have you a comic viewer that reads .cbr's I would recommend Watchmen, Promethea, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen & Batman - The Killing Joke by Moore. Another good Grafic Novel is The Big Book Of Grimm by Jonathan Vankin.
------------------------------------------------------
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ~Thomas Jefferson
-------------------------------------------------------
"God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper." -Richard B. Fuller | 1895 - 1983
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu, 7th Aug 2008 14:07 Post subject: |
|
|
From one of the funniest movies ever, Spies like us:
-"Everytime you dont tell us why you're here, Ill cut of a finger"
-"Mine or yours?"
-"Yours!"
"This is my sister, you can all have her. I hear shes really good"
"The first step in an operation like this is to shave the patient"
A few very funny lines from Spaceballs:
"Prepare the ship for Metamorphosis, ready Kafka?"
"Ships to big, If I walk the movie will be over"
"Its Mega-Maid, shes gone from suck to blow!"
"Funny, she doesent look druish"
Dont mess with God, he can impregnate your girlfriend/wife without taking his pants off!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu, 7th Aug 2008 14:24 Post subject: |
|
|
By force of arms. -Cicero
(Vi Et Armis)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 03:12 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. |
The Dalai Lama
| Quote: | | Who you gonna call? |
Ghostbusters
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 12:31 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
Ernest Hemingway
| Quote: | | All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. |
Baltasar Gracian
| Quote: | | It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. |
Baltasar Gracian
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 15:21 Post subject: |
|
|
“Every decision you make—every decision—is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real”
- Neale Donald Walsch
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cohen
Posts: 7155
Location: Rapture
|
| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 18:27 Post subject: |
|
|
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." Voltaire
"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow." Voltaire
troll detected by SiN
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 02:17 Post subject: |
|
|
"Beautiful people do not just happen...The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern...Beautiful people do not just happen..."
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 12:52 Post subject: |
|
|
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ~Thomas Paine
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zipfero
Posts: 8938
Location: White Shaft
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 19:52 Post subject: |
|
|
"ADRIAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!" - Rocky Balboa.
8 out of 10 dentists prefer zipfero to competing brands(fraich3 and Mutantius)!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 20:16 Post subject: |
|
|
"There are two known ways of arguing with a woman, neither of them work."
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Under
Posts: 667
Location: Scotland
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 20:30 Post subject: |
|
|
"Be afraid, Be very afraid ..." - The Fly
Best PICKUP LINE :
"Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 20:33 Post subject: |
|
|
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ~ Samuel Johnson
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cohen
Posts: 7155
Location: Rapture
|
| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 20:43 Post subject: |
|
|
Very true. Your own eyes and research are the best seekers of truth.
troll detected by SiN
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 00:22 Post subject: |
|
|
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ~Frederick Douglass
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Veki
Posts: 381
Location: Croatia
|
| Posted: Tue, 19th Aug 2008 10:34 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. |
Commisssioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
| Quote: | | Per aspera ad astra. |
Through hardships to the stars.
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commisssioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
_SiN_
Megatron
Posts: 12108
Location: Cybertron
|
| Posted: Tue, 19th Aug 2008 12:24 Post subject: |
|
|
| Phluxed wrote: | | "Quod scripsi, scripsi." (What I have written, I have written) - Pilate |
I'm sorry, but how is this a good quote?
Shouldn't "What i have said, i have said" be a good quote too then? Or, replace written/said with whatever verb you feel like using..
Watercooled 5950X | AORUS Master X570 | Asus RTX 3090 TUF Gaming OC | 64Gb RAM | 1Tb 970 Evo Plus + 2Tb 660p | etc etc
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
_SiN_
Megatron
Posts: 12108
Location: Cybertron
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Sin317
Banned
Posts: 24322
Location: Geneva
|
| Posted: Tue, 19th Aug 2008 13:21 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | * 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.
o Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.
|
from Frank Herbert's "Dune"
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 26th Aug 2008 19:45 Post subject: |
|
|
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,"
- Shakespeare
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChinUp
Posts: 5503
Location: 51.7° N ' 1.1° W
|
| Posted: Tue, 26th Aug 2008 21:45 Post subject: |
|
|
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cohen
Posts: 7155
Location: Rapture
|
| Posted: Tue, 26th Aug 2008 23:11 Post subject: |
|
|
Women are all fucking cunts. - Me
troll detected by SiN
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu, 4th Sep 2008 15:08 Post subject: |
|
|
In war killing is easy as breathing - J. Rambo
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Page 2 of 3 |
All times are GMT + 1 Hour |
i suppose you all know where it is from
