Favourite Non-Afterwind Quotes

Post your favourite non Afterwind quotes here, historical or fictional. I keep a list of awesome ones just for the hell of it.

My favourite's in my sig, and it's not going anywhere.

"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." -Stephen Hawking

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." -Socrates (Humility ftw)

"A newspaper editor's job is to separate the wheat from the chaff- and print the chaff." -Adlai Stevenson

"The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin

"You would sail a ship against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense." -Napoleon Bonaparte, on Robert Fulton's steamship (Napoleon, you rock)

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -Benjamin Franklin

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss (Perfect quote to say to people after breakups)

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason." -Marya Mannes (I feel like she's a Vulcan at heart)

"The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." -Adolf Hitler

"It's much easier to get what you want with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word." -Al Capone

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita hdrakon1.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, but I guess that was exactly what I did." -Alexander Fleming

"Everything has an end, only the sausage has two" - famous and wise German proverb. Good for breakups too.

"Surprise Motherfucker." -James Doakes

"Come and take them."
"They shall not pass!"
"I am the flail of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
"Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"
"Bullshit!"
"If."(Yes, just if. Read the articles below if you want to find out about it. )
"That was ungenerous! I'll take your guns for that!"
"There are two hundred million of us! You can't hang us all!"
"Go take a flying shit!"

http://www.cracked.com/article_19403_the-10-greatest-uses-trash-talk-in-history-war.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_19759_the-7-greatest-pieces-trash-talk-in-history-war.html

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. -George Carlin

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. -George Carlin

You gotta roll with it, you gotta take your time, you gotta say what you say don't let any fucker get in your way. -Noel Gallagher (Roll With It)

OMG - Who the hell cares (Peter Griffin)

Get back in the kitch (cartoon of batman)

"I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2008


"I'm coming as the president of a friend, and I'm coming as a sportsman." --George W. Bush, on his trip to the Olympics in China, Washington, D.C., July 30, 2008


"One of the things important about history is to remember the true history." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2008


"So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success." --George W. Bush, on Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 17, 2008

"Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 12, 2008

"There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world." --George W. Bush, addressing U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, Jan. 12, 2008

"I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands." --George W. Bush, on how he can contribute to the Middle East peace process, Washington, D.C., Jan. 4, 2008