"A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"

Katherine Hepburn

"If you can't convince them, confuse them"

Harry S Truman

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination"

John Lennon

I'm gonna quote myself again

"No matter what any may say to you, Let no man tell you that a end is an end. An end is merely beginning that has yet to be written."
-Ampmaster

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstaces to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfation or glee" Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House-Five

“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and all their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House-Five

"A mistake may mark a man, but admitting a mistake is the mark of a man." - Zak Vora

"but i always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party"


--Andy Warhol

(again)

"art is what you can get away with"


--Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
-Andy Warhol

Edward Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then?
Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.

Edward Smith: Why is it more of a pleasure to do 30 or 40 pictures than to do just one?
Andy Warhol: Then I can, uh, listen to my soundabout which looks just like the thing that I'm wearing now, and you can listen to opera and stuff like that.
Edward Smith: Does that mean you don't have to think when you're painting?
Andy Warhol: No, you can listen to really good music.
Edward Smith: So, what, painting is an excuse to listen to really good music?
Andy Warhol: Oh, yeah.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.
Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.
Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?
Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

Quotes from one of my favorite movies: Kingdom of Heaven

Balian of Ibelin: It is a kingdom of conscience, or nothing.

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Balian of Ibelin: [to the people of Jerusalem] It has fallen to us, to defend Jerusalem, and we have made our preparations as well as they can be made. None of us took this city from Muslims. No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when this city was lost. We fight over an offence we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy palaces lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy?
[pause]
Balian of Ibelin: The wall? The Mosque? The Sepulchre? Who has claim? No one has claim.
[raises his voice]
Balian of Ibelin: All have claim!
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: That is blasphemy!
Almaric: [to the Patriarch] Be quiet.
Balian of Ibelin: We defend this city, not to protect these stones, but the people living within these walls.

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Balian of Ibelin: You go with the army?
Hospitaller: My order is with the army.
Balian of Ibelin: You go to certain death.
Hospitaller: All death is certain. I shall tell your father what I've seen you become.
[rides away]

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Balian of Ibelin: What man is a man who does not make the world better.

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Nasir: You reap what you sow. You have heard of this, no?

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Saladin: Who defends?
Nasir: Balian of Ibelin. The son of Godfrey.
Saladin: Godfrey? Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon. Truly, I did not know he had a son.
Nasir: It was his son at Kerak.
Saladin: The one you let live?
Nasir: Yes.
Saladin: Perhaps you should not have.
Nasir: Perhaps I should have had a different teacher.

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Hospitaller: I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What god desires is here
[points to head]
Hospitaller: and here
[points to heart]
Hospitaller: and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not.

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Tiberias: [to Balian] May God be with you, he's no longer with me.

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King Baldwin IV:...But remember that, even when those who move you be kings or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.

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Godfrey of Ibelin: Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Godfrey of Ibelin: [cuffs Balian with the back of his hand] And that's so you remember it.

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Tiberias: That I would rather live with men than kill them is certainly why you are alive.
Guy de Lusignan: [Chuckles] That sort of Christianity has its uses, I suppose...

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Balian of Ibelin: How can you be in hell, when you are in my heart?

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Balian of Ibelin: God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

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Tiberias: I have given Jerusalem my whole life. First, I thought we were fighting for God. Then I realized we were fighting for wealth and land. I was ashamed.

Thank you.

Monsignor from the Boondock Saints.

I like that one, Jenos. I'm going to use it.

Edit:

Do you know who said it?

Along the same lines as YV's quote.

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

"Vivamus, dum licet esse." Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

This is an old proverb I heard and I think it holds much truth.

"Evil prevails when good man fail to act."

I feel like quoting myself too. Only because I keep seeing it in Megs profile and it make me laugh...

Me: being a scapegoat isn't bad meg
Me: it's one step away from being god

Science is God's way of showing man the true splendor of his creation
-Myself

hubris to quote one's self I know but it really is a kick ass quote