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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby Arwenel » Jun 12, 2014 8:52 am

Jesus, I'm a broken man
A broken man, a broken man
Jesus, I'm a broken man
Can you make me whole again?
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Hey. - Simmons
Yeah? - Grif
Do you ever wonder why we're here? - Simmons
It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it? Why are we here? Are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God, watching everything, with a plan for us and stuff? I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night. - Grif
*beat*
What? I meant why are we here, in this canyon! - Simmons
Oh ... uh ... yeah. - Grif

You don’t need to treat me like that. I’m not crazy, okay? I’m totally and completely sane. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go blow up this dead body. - Agent Washington

Normally, I would agree with Simmons. But that would mean that I would agree with Grif! Therefore, I will simply grunt ambiguously. - Sarge

Don't be so quick to judge, Grif. Shotgun to the face can be a plan in a variety of situations. For instance, watch how quickly it cures insubordination! - Sarge

Hey, you dropped a grenade. - Tucker
That's not one of mine. Caboose, pick that up. - Church
I'm not allowed to carry grenades, remember? Because of that one exploding time? Which… was no one’s fault. - Caboose
Well, I didn’t drop it! Tucker, count yours. - Church
I have a readout on my helmet, dummy, I don't need to count. - Tucker
Oh, right. Well, it has to be somebody's. - Church
*beat*
...Somebody threw a grenade at us, didn't they? - Tucker
Yeah, we probably should've figured that out sooner. - Church

How do you feel? - Tucker
Like running over each and every one of you. - Epsilon
So, about like normal. - Tucker
Pretty much, yeah. - Epsilon

Tucker! Tucker! Come here! Tell me I'm cool! Tell me I'm lazy and I don't play by the rules! - Grif
What? - Tucker
*wailing* I DON'T WANT A SOUTHERN ACCENT! - Grif
*beat*
We're dealing with some issues. - Simmons

~Red vs. Blue, multiple seasons
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind
Some come from above, some come from behind
But I've bought a big bat, I'm all ready you see
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~ Dr. Seuss
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby The Rose-Tree Dryad » Jul 18, 2014 8:09 pm

I ran across this quote by George MacDonald recently and liked it a lot. It's a good thing to remember.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers; if I may not, let me think how nice they would be, and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby Meltintalle » Jul 24, 2014 1:17 pm

Oh, I like that one, Rose. :)

Here are two of my recent favorites:

  • Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side—Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl by N. D. Wilson
  • In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought—G. K. Chesterton
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby The Rose-Tree Dryad » Jul 30, 2014 5:30 pm

When reading an article earlier today, I ran across a couple of C.S. Lewis quotes that I really liked. :)

Now the modern critical world uses 'adult' as a term of approval. It is hostile to what it calls 'nostalgia' and contemptuous of what it calls 'Peter Pantheism'. Hence a man who admits that dwarfs and giants and talking beasts and witches are still dear to him in his fifty-third year is now less likely to be praised for his perennial youth than scorned and pitied for arrested development.


In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.


Some wonderful insights in both of those. :ymapplause:
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby aileth » Jul 31, 2014 12:24 pm

I was reading in Isaiah 45, and was reminded of this song by Loren Elms:

Does the clay ever say to the Potter, Tell me why you have made me this way,
For my sides are all thinning, I'm tired of spinning, around and around every day,
Does the clay ever say to the Potter, I'm afraid that I just don't agree,
For so often I feel that life on this wheel is not what it's cracked up to be.

It seems rather strange to imagine, that my life is also like clay,
Until I remember that God formed my members, and made me in His special way,
So instead of a life of complaining, about things that I don't understand,
I will simply be grateful that my God is faithful, to finish the work He began.


Does the clay ever say to the Potter, All my plans are much different than Yours,
And I do beg Your pardon, but if I must harden, I'd like a much different design,
Does the clay ever say to the Potter, This old oven is getting quite hot,
If this pot You're designing requires refining I really would much rather not.

Very meaningful to me, as a reminder when life is not going the way I want it to go.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away ... my days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby The Rose-Tree Dryad » Jul 31, 2014 2:45 pm

Oh wow, I really like those lyrics, aileth! :ymapplause: Thank you for sharing them; the meaning and the poetry is really lovely. I love the word choice, too. Do you have a link to the song, perchance? (Maybe post it over on the music thread?)
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby aileth » Aug 01, 2014 8:56 pm

That I did. And there are some other ones by the same author if you feel like looking at them too.
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby Arwenel » Sep 03, 2014 7:43 pm

in their song 'Losing' Tenth Avenue North wrote:Why do we think that hate's gonna change their heart?
We're up in arms over wars don't need to be fought
Pride won't let us lay our weapons on the ground
We build our bridges up, but just to burn them down
We think that pain is owed apologies and then it'll stop
But truth be told it doesn't matter if they're sorry or not
Freedom comes when we surrender to the sound
Of Your mercy and Your grace, Father, send Your angels down

Oh, Father won't You forgive them?
They don't know what they've been doin'
Oh, Father, give me grace to forgive them
'Cause I feel like the one losing.
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind
Some come from above, some come from behind
But I've bought a big bat, I'm all ready you see
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~ Dr. Seuss
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Re: Favorite Quotes!

Postby wild rose » Sep 18, 2014 6:27 am

I was recently researching Latin quotes for one of my novels and I came across this one that for some reason I really likeed (not quite sure why, it just stuck with me)
astra inclinant sed non obligant
(the stars incline us, they do not bind us)


one of my all time favorites is this one by Winston Churchill
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Re: Writer's World

Postby 220chrisTian » Mar 10, 2015 11:52 am

I didn't know where else to put this, so I'll try here. :)

‘Grace, do you know anything about fan fiction?’

‘I do, actually. It’s where rabid fans who love a series – movie series, books, even a couple of long-running television dramas – actually write installments to the series. For instance, the Narnia series. Fans are still writing adventures in Narnia, and that series was completed how many years ago?’

Anne had no idea about these rabid fanatics’ habits. Maybe she should start paying more attention.


– Thomas, Emily. The Rightful Owner. Secrets of the Blue Hill Library. New York: Guideposts, 2014. [age 213]
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