Category: quote

  • great injustice

    In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”

    – Bertrand Russell

  • thinking

    “As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.” – H. Rider Haggard

  • poem no place for an idea

    “A poem is no place for an idea.”

    Edgar Watson Howe

  • Paranoid

    Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.

    Storm Front by Jim Butcher

  • Resistance is futile

    We are the Borg.

    Lower your shields and surrender your ships.

    We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

    Your culture will adapt to service us.

    Resistance is futile.

    Star Trek : First Contact

  • Try not

    Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.

    – Yoda

  • Youth wasted on the young

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    “Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

    – George Bernard Shaw

  • a pinch of dirt

    “Eat a pinch of dirt before you die”

    – anon

    My scottish grandmother used to say this but I’ve never worked it out. Do you need to eat a pinch of dirt before you die? Does eating a pinch of dirt cause you to die?

  • throw your voice

    “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” – Edward R. Murrow

  • Terrain

    There are different kinds of terrain in nature. Some terrain is easily accessible, some is entrapping, some temporizing, some constricted, some precipitous and some distant.What terrain is accessible? Ground that is easy for both your troops and the enemy’s to move across is called accessible terrain. If you enter the accessible region, you should first take high and sunny positions and keep your supply routes unimpeded. This is convenient for you to fight with the enemy.

    – Sun Tzu