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| Quotes |
| I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. -Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
| There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -- with human flesh. -Frank Herbert's Dune |
| Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongdoings left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters. -Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen |
| That's how they think of me, too. Teacher. Legendary soldier. Not one of them. Not someone you embrace and whisper Salaam in his ear. That only lasted while Ender still seemed a victim. Still seemed vulnerable. Now he was the master soldier, and he was completely, utterly alone. -Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
| "Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again." "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring |
| In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinate space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." -Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature |
| Why are you so downcast, o my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet priase Him, my Savior and my God. -Psalm 42:5-6 |
| Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. -Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
| Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity . . . the blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. -Chaim Potok's The Chosen |
| The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be the doubts of today. -F.D. Roosevelt |
| Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity witout becoming what you pretend to be. -Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
| To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which will never be seen again. -Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature |
| The misery of man appears like child petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball. -Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature |
| A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature |
| "Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet it's farthest from." "And I thought these things smelled bad on the outside!" "We're doomed." "Over my dead body." "That's the idea. I've been looking forward to this for a long time." "Yes, I'll bet you have. Sorry 'bout the mess." "What a piece of junk!" "Don't worry, she'll hold together. You hear me, baby? Hold together!" "Would it help if I got out and pushed?" "It might." "Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker." "Then I'll see you in hell." "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought." "You know, sometimes I amaze even myself." "Now be carefull, Artoo." "Rwgraaarrrghhhghh!" "He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you." "Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee." "But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid." "That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that." "I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, Artoo. Let the Wookiee win." "Listen, I don't know who you are or where you're from, but form now on, you do at I tell you. Okay?" "Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight! I take orders from just one person! Me!" "It's a wonder you're still alive." "What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it?" "You're imagining things." "Am I? Then why are you following me? Afraid I was going to leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?" "I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiie!" "I could arrange that. You could use a good kiss!" "I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight." "I don't know where you get your delusions, laser-brain." "Rwughff! Rwuuhh-rwugh!" "Laugh it up, fuzzball." "Why, you stuck-up . . . half-witted . . . scruffy-looking . . . nerf-herder!" "Who's scruffy-looking?" "Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things." "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge my by size, do you? Mmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." "Never tell me the odds!" "When nine hundred years you reach, look as good you will not." "The Emperor is not as forgiving as I." "Strike me down with all your hatred and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete." -George Lucas' Star Wars |
| He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant. -Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game |
| I gave it the full 85 percent and made it through. -Randy Newman |