Commentary: A lot of people asked about my commonly-referred-to list of quotes, so I did my best to organize the wild mess of quotes into something readable. I seperated my quotes from the others I picked up along the way. Not all of my quotes that you may have seen are here because I recorded only a few of them. Most you probably saw were spontaneous. Please forgive the religious quotes (I had to appease these religious fanatics constantly bothering me, you know who you are fellas ;-) ). So here is my extensive list of quotes:
Quotes of Sethlore "Life is a mask which covers what we really are, and what we really are is what we choose to be." -Sethlore, from Thoughts Of Reflection "Days only last 24 hours, while love lasts forever. There will always be tomorrow" -Sethlore, from Thoughts Of Reflection "A writer doesn't choose when he writes, he just writes when it comes to him" -Sethlore "Do you still love her? The answer does not lie within your mind, my friend, but within your heart. Do not think about it, only say what your heart feels" -Sethlore, from a conversation with the enemy of thy heart. "One does not choose when or where he fights, he can only choose how" -Sethlore, from Thoughts Of Reflection "One knows not what he is but only what he is not" -Sethlore, from Thoughts Of Reflection "He who believes he controls his fate is the biggest fool for he controls not his fate, but others'." -Sethlore, from Thoughts Of Reflection "He who marches into battle eager for action is the one who first crumbles in the sight of fear." -Sethlore, from Thoughts of Reflection "In order to apply situations to the reality of life, the situations themselves must be unreal." -Sethlore, from a conversation with Kirby Other Quotes "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing!" -Dune, Paul Atreides, a.k.a., Paul Muad'dib "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." -Ralph Ellison in Invisible Man "...but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate." -Ralph Ellison in Invisible Man "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." -Leto Atreides II after a spice trip p. 268 "Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself." -Jessica Atreides at Farad'n's "graduation ceremony" (p. 305) (By the way, for those of you wondering here, my "life is a mask" quote did not derive from this one. I did not come to know of this quote's existence until I read the book (two years after my quote made). "The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create." -Jessica Atreides at Farad'n's "graduation ceremony"(his convergence to the Bene Gesserit) p. 305 "Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot work and their civilization collapses." -A Letter to CHOAM, from the Preacher p.306 "In the old ways of Shuloch there is security and a sense of belonging to the golden thread of life." -Old Shuloch story p.311 "No man is worthy of your tears, because the one who is will never make you cry." -Annonymous "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa "Fighting over the net is like competing in the special olympics, even if you win you are still retarded" -MrGeewilikers "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer." -1 John iii. 15. "To love less, relatively." -Luke xiv. 26. Definition of hate. "opposed to love." - definition of hate "For in a wink the false love turns to hate." -Tennyson "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." -Matt. xxii. 37. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self." -Matt. xxii. 39. "The rules of DoD are simple: Kill All Snipers, as they ruin your assault. Kill all Mgs, as they ruin the enemy's defense. Kill all 56kers, as they suck ass!" -Shadow "Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." -Haile Selassie "If one expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, one expects what never was and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." -Emiliano Zapata "None are most hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Goethe "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence." -Gary Lloyd "There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." -Ayn Rand "I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always -- or almost always -- be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment. Just as it is with us. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail..." -Robert Heinlein. "Now is the winter of our discontent". -Shakespeare, King Richard III- (Act I, Scene I). "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." -Shakespeare, MacBeth, (Act. V. Scene V.) "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein "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, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." - Shakespeare, Henry V "There is nothing to fear but fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance..." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "A wise man's heart inclines him toward the Right, but a fool's heart inclines him to the Left." -Ecclesiastes 10:2 "I fear for my life As I may have finally found a piece of it How can you know where you're going If you don't know where you are?" -"That Damn Mexican" "I hate living a character in life. I'm tired of being their expectations. I'm tired of doing the right thing. Why does there even have to be expectations? Is it because we're all afraid of what someone else might think? So society as a whole has to pressure one another to succumb to comformity? Why should I be a part of it? You know what, I won't, screw it. It's time to be myself. Its not what I want, its whats left." -"That Damn Mexican" "You're a god if you can kill, not if you can save...at least in this world" -Ralph