Harrie's Quote of the Week

[Harrie]

Back on the last verion of Majestic Sci-Fi Central, I started posting, in my signiture, a new quote each week.

Now most of them hold very little real signifigance, but there are a few that do.

Here I have decided to post a list of them, for anyone who wanted to see all of them.

01/08/06 to 01/14/06
It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

01/15/06 to 01/21/06
When he reaches the gates of heaven, / To Saint Peter he will tell: / Another Soldier reporting for duty, / I've served my time in hell

01/22/06 to 01/28/06
You can't out run death forever, but you can sure make the ******* work for it.

01/29/06 to 02/02/06
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -Socrates (420 BC)

02/03/06 to 02/11/06
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -Leonardo da Vinci. (Special tribute to Esther Harrold [1926-2006] may she rest in peace, beside her husband once again.)

02/12/06 to 02/18/06
Pale Death kicks his way equally into the cottages of the poor and the castles of kings. –Horace

02/19/06 to 02/25/06
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2/26/06 to 3/04/06
Among life's perpetually charming questions is whether the truly evil do more harm than the self-righteous and wrong. -Jon Margolis

3/05/06 to 3/11/06
Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire./ But if it had to perish twice,/ I think I know enough of hate/ To say that for destruction ice/ Is also great/ And would suffice. – Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

3/12/06 to 3/18/06
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses row on row,/ That mark our place; and in the sky/ The larks, still bravely singing, fly/Scarce heard amid the guns below. – In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

3/19/06 to 3/25/06
Me: And just think I may be President someday.
My Mom: President of a company maybe, but never the country
Me: Do you really think anyone would care if Bush decided to dump 300 pounds of sand in his driveway.
My Mom: Probably not, but this isn’t the driveway. This is the street.

3/26/06 to 3/31/06
Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear MOM! Happy birthday to you.

4/01/06 to 04/08/06
"My fellow Americans. I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." - President Reagan while testing a microphone, that wasn’t supposed to have been turned on, moments before making a radio broadcast.

4/09/06 to 4/15/06
“By giving them [children] so much, we have robbed them of that indispensable sense realism that can only be earned by head-on collisions with the immovable object called the real world.†– Lee Harris

4/16/06 to 4/22/06
Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear DAD! Happy birthday to you.

4/23/06 to 4/29/06
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control. -Wess Roberts

4/30/06 to 5/06/06
The United States is like a giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate. – Attributed to Winston Churchill

5/07/06 to 5/13/06
I fell asleep at conception and woke up at birth. – Jason Schlotmann

5/14/06 to 5/20/06
“He’s a good man, thinks jaywalkers should get life.†– D.A. Arthur Branch ‘Law & Order’

5/21/06 to 5/27/06
Schools out! Schools out! Someone let the monkeys out, sliding down the banisters trying to kiss the Janitors!

5/28/06 to 6/03/06
“It was like this little purple demon thing coming out of her.†– A girl in my class on the subject of birth

6/04/06 to 6/10/06
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. -Bill Watterson

6/11/06 to 6/17/06
It is better to prevent than to cure. – Peruvian folk wisdom

6/18/06 to 6/24/06
There is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away,/ Nor any coursers like a page/ Of prancing poetry./ This traverse may the poorest take/ Without oppress of toll;/ How frugal is the chariot/ That bears a human soul! –Emily Dickenson

6/25/06 to 7/01/06
“There was an old fellow of Lyme/ Who lived with three wives at one time./ When asked, 'Why the third?'/ He replied, 'One’s absurd,/ And bigamy, sir, is a crime.'†–Edward Lear

7/02/06 to 7/08/06
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." - Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence

7/09/06 to 7/15/06
"Mister Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in this galaxy that can make that claim." - Kirk to Spock “Elaan of Troyiusâ€

7/16/06 to 7/22/06
"Eaten any good books lately?" – Q to Worf “Deja-Qâ€

7/23/06 to 7/29/06
"Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise" – Riker “Contagionâ€

7/30/06 to 8/05/06
"I am NOT a merry man!" – Worf “Qpidâ€

8/06/06 to 8/12/06
"Some of the colonists objected to having an anatomically correct android running around without any clothes on" - Juliana Soong “Inheritanceâ€

8/13/06 to 8/19/06
"Captain, we're receiving two hundred and eighty-five thousand hails" - Lt. Wesley Crusher “Parallelsâ€

8/20/06 to 8/26/06
"Captain, you are an excellent star ship commander, but as a taxi driver... you leave much to be desired." - Spock to Kirk. “A Piece of the Actionâ€

8/27/06 to 9/02/06
"Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit." – Picard “All Good Thingsâ€

09/03/06 to 09/09/06
“Oh, Merlin! The last time I saw a look like that was the night before James, Sirius, Remus and Peter put a Fidelis charm on every bathroom in the school, then sold the locations to people for a galleon per bathroom,†exclaimed Minerva. – Chapter 10 of Sunset Over Britain by Bobmin

09/10/09 to 09/16/06
“Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.†– Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941

09/17/06 to 09/23/06
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~Mark Twain

09/24/06 to 09/30/06
None

10/01/06 to 10/07/06
Here lies in / honored glory / AN AMERICAN SOLDIER / known but to god... ~ Tomb of the Unknowns

 

[Phoenix]

It is not for us to question what is, but rather to question how we can improve it!

 

[Phoenix]

"I think, therefore I am!"
"Well, now, that depends . . ."
"On what?"
"How hard I hit you over the head . . ."
Friends are there for support . . .

"What happens when an irresistable force meets an immovable object?"
"I dunno. Has anything like that hit Chuck Norris?"
Sorry. Couldn't resist quoting a friend again . . .

 

[Harrie]

did you know that Winston Churchcill had Bipolar?

yes did, so did Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway.

Its surprising the number of famous people suffer from Psychological disorders

 

[Hellkite]

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.


Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Phoenix]

^Aaarrgghh!! Startin' that again are you? Oh, well, now I gotta go find a speach . . .


Every world . . . is my world. (I will learn to survive!)
Any world . . . is my world. (I will learn to survive!)

Every world . . . is my world.
Any world . . . is our world . . .
Last lines of Duran Duran's Ordinary World


Won't you please call my family, tell 'em not to cry.
My good-bye's are written by the moon in the sky.
Say, no-body knows me, I got no reason to stay . . .
Shiver me timbers, I'm sailing away . . .
Last lines of Bette Midler's Shiver me Timbers
And how I feel about South Africa at present . . .


"Hypothetical situation: You walk past an alleyway, and look down it. You see a man holding a knife on another, and obviously about to use it. Do you intervene and possibly get killed, or keep walking and let the other die? My answer is this; What if the one without a knife was the bad guy with a gun . . ?"
A friend's way of saying look before you leap.

 

[Hellkite]

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.


Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Harrie]

I was saving this for later but Pharel brought up Ernie Pyle and I had to post it. It's the part of the book, and the only reason I ever read it , that mentions my great uncle.

"The mechanic who fixed our gears was Sergent Walter Harrold, of Wadena, Minnesota. Already that day his outfit had been forced to move twice. German artillery had got their range once, and they were dive-bombed another time. Sergent Harrold had been working and dodging all day and had more jobs to that night, yet he worked on our jeep with as much interest as if it had been his own. You can tell a mechanic at heart even on a battlefield. Or maybe I should say especially on a battlefield." - Excerpt from chapter 17 of Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War
​

 

[Phoenix]

^Nice, Harrie. Very nice . . .

In war, we always appreciate the sacrifice of the many, but so often forget the sacrifice of the few . . .

"War is one of the stupidest things man ever invented. We talk, we fight, we die . . . then end up resolving things with talk! We couldn't just do that in the first place?!"
A wise young friend . . .

"There are two ways to Heaven: The natural way, or my fist!"
"If force doesn't work, you're not using enough."
Another friend . . . quite a contrast, yes?

 

[Phoenix]

"You like hurting people, don't you?"
"Not at all. I abhor unjustified violence."
"Then why'd you kill that guy for bumping into you?"
"It was justified . . ."
an . . . interesting take on things . . .

And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.
-From The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan

And when the blood was sprinkled on ground where nothing could grow, the Children of the Dragon did spring up, the People of the Dragon, armed to dance with death. And he did call them forth from the wasted land, and they did shake the world with battle.
-From The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
and tore the world asunder.
-From Crossroad of Twilight, Robert Jordan

 

[Phoenix]

Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
Die, and generally you die alone . . .


"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter . . ."
-Gee, I wonder . . .


From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
Shakespeare

 

[Harrie]

Updated.

 

[Phoenix]

^ . . . . that was funny . . .


When asked what he thought of Western Civilisation, Ghandi's reply was:
"I think it would be a good idea."

 

[Harrie]

Yeah, that was Jason in health class on a day including a movie about human reproduction. I have one more coming up from that class.

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war." - E. B. White

 

[Phoenix]

There's no such thing as a quote. Invariably somebody will get it wrong . . .
-My old English teacher. (This one is correct, though . . . )

 

[Emmapeel]

"To boldly go where no man has gone before.."

Star Trek or Neil Armstrong

mind you it applies to both

 

[Hellkite]

Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur

We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving. - Publilius Syrus

 

[Hellkite]

Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart
and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
we are less than beasts;
but with it, earth is heaven
and we are gods.

Robert G. Ingersoll

 

[Phoenix]

"It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"
"Oh, yeah? Try it some time . . ."


Hold fast to dreams,
For when dreams go;
Life is a barren field,
Frozen with snow
-Can't remember author/poet

 

[Harrie]

List updated

 

[Hellkite]

Barbara Ehrenreich:

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Robert M. Hutchins:

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

 

[Harrie]

I like that first one, the second one is just too true.

 

[Blindeye]

I am sorry, but this is my favorite quote ever:

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

 

[Phoenix]

"Whadda YOU want?"
-Siege Tank, StarCraft

 

[Harrie]

I've updated.

 

[Phoenix]

"I am about to drop the hammer . . . and dispense some indescriminate justice."
Siege Tank, StarCraft

"No-one can truly understand what it means to be a parent until the first time they here their baby cry."
Friend of mine. His arrived last year.

"Hearing my baby cry for the first time . . . "
A friend whose little one arrive . . . very recently . . .
So, the first friend would appear to be correct . . .

 

[Harrie]

I've updated.

I like the quotes everyone keeps coming up with. you never know, put down one i really like and it may end up on my list.

 

[Phoenix]

"Time is an illusion. A human attempt to quantify that which cannot be simply contained. It is better for us to come to terms with it, and accept that it is something we simply cannot alter or control, for only then will we be truly free of it . . ."
Anon

 

[Hellkite]

H. L. Mencken:

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

Henry Steele Commager:

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Carl Schurz:

The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

Mark Twain:

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

Mark Twain:

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Norman Thomas:

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Jawaharial Nehru:

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Theodore Roosevelt:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)

John Stuart Mill:

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

George Bernard Shaw:

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

 

[Phoenix]

^ B.L.O.O.D.Y. H.E.C.K.

That should keep you busy for a while, Harrie . . .


"I lost a bomb. Do you have it?"
Crazy Ivan, RA2


"Leeeerrrrooyyyyy Jeeeennnkkiiinnssss!"
To all those who follow Wold of WarCraft, this will mean something . . .