Ken Yuen
Excellent Quotes
* = One's that I really like or that really fit me.
My quotes
"#1 Rule: One philosophy and one idea can not always work for one person. There is always an exception to the rule. (Even this one, because this one is always true.)
A bad man is only a bad man if others consider him a bad man. If he can conceal his evil, then he might as well be considered a good man.
Good people do good things needlessly. Bad people do bad things needlessly. It just depends on what you greed desires.
*Do not leave parts of yourself in the past, or they will come back in the present.
Assumptions are not meant to come true.
The unexpected is what life is about. Life where all expectancies come true is not life.
Love is not reasonable, it is emotion. (Oh how true it is.)
To succeed, you must focus on your conflict, and avoid or conquer it.
Succeeding is not the best thing in the world, sometimes the path towards the end is more educational and important.
Do not ignore your enemies or your friends, give equal attention to both, or else they will sour and all will be stronger enemies.
There is not just yes or no, good or evil, there are others in between that are on lesser degrees of both.
The more complicated, real, important the situation, the less clear the answer will be. Often times it will never be yes, no, guilty, not guilty.
Waiting is one of the worse experiences in the world, but anticipation can be one of the best.
Doing one thing for too long will trap you. Hating should be the shortest thing to do, loving should be the longest lasting.
Life is a curse full of pain, only to be equaled with portions of happiness. (Vice a versa acceptable.)
In life happiness is brief, the only compensation is that pain is also brief.
Education does not mean entertainment, it should not ever be assumed to be.
Everything has a serious path that must not be too far strayed from.
Romance to a young man is a new adventure, a new game never before played.
The unknown is a new adventure to the young, full of new truths, lies, and emotions.
Emotions are wonderful, but they must not be corrupt the reason.
People tend to want what is not good for them to be happy. People do not know what they want, or else we'd all have died happy a long time ago.
Nothing stands out like the spectacular.
To get what we want, we must make a goal and stick to the path to it, or else risk letting a foreign road take us to the unknown.
Sometimes, going on the foreign path works.
Never try to explain emotions with anything less than philosophy, or risk losing all reason.
To go out and learn will bear no more fruits than to stay home a learn, for to learn depends on yours senses, not what surrounds you.
Your yourself make your body. Your environment, you, and people around you makes your mind and spirit.
A God is a beautiful thing. To believe in God is safety and comfort from the unknown, to be without God is to be left to struggle and worry.
Worrying is the best stimulate to learn, to be at ease will mean you care not, and you will fail.
A Bible is best used as a book of laws for the lost.
A book is one of the most important physical objects due to the fact that it is one of the few objects that can capture human thought and soul.
To love a person who does not care for you is like a board being leaned against air.
To be without ambition is to have no self will, without ambition you are slave to the environment around you.
To choose you must contemplate inner and outer forces. Inner is past experiences, observation by the five senses, self ideas, and comprehension. Outer forces is people, animals, plants, weather, your physical body, anything around you.
Great learning depends on observation by the five senses, comprehension, connecting knowledge, self ideas, and willingness to learn.
Without a will a person is a slave to those who do.
To be a "good" person is to be as much of the following as possible: Responsible, Loyal, Greatest Good for All, Greatest Good for Important, Always try be Good, Want to be Good, Desire for Justice,
To fear the unknown is preparation. To fear the unknown just to avoid it is ignorance.
Confronting fears will not always amount to bravery, but will help ease the fears of others.
To ignore any problem is like letting parasites eat you out. Everything is built on small things, once the foundation is gone the big thing collapses.
Comprehension and will are the highest forms of true intelligence. You can not learn without out comprehension, but if you do not have the will then the learning will be useless.
Nothing is certain. We only know what we think is right. There is no right or wrong way until people feel that there is no right or wrong way.
The mind is the source of all knowledge. There is no knowledge in books, nothing to learn in nature, everything must be observed and comprehended to be called knowledge. It can not be tapped out of any source but in a mind.
Life does not last forever, so neither should hatred. Forgive while you can.
There is never too much of a good thing, or too little of a bad thing. Life requires equal portions of both. The good for happiness, the bad for education.
A small problem can grow into a big one.
Strength in another is in one's perception, for all people have some strength.
Anger is a force to be used warily. Emotions can make one strong, but not always in the way one wants. It can be used to make a weak enemy act as a fool, for that is what usually is the consequence of anger.
All people want to do want they want, but not everyone knows what they want and not everyone knows how to achieve their goals.
Life is consisted of short term goals. We must all remember that to steer ourselves to the long term ones.
Everything needs balance. Proceeding with too much shyness is not proceeding at all, while too much brashness may take someone somewhere they don't want to be.
A weak person is one that sees only what he or she wants to see or what he or she is told to see.(Relates to all other senses as well.)
A wise person recognizes what is true by logic. An ordinary person will recognize what is true by what everyone else believes is true.
A person can not live his or her life on one book or one philosophy, because both were created by a humans, and humans are far from perfect.
Weaknesses are strengths, strengths are weaknesses. It just depends on the situation which applies it.
Nothing can be run by one quote, one philosophy. A broad spectrum is needed to survive all situations.
Life is one big fall. We may occasionally catch a branch and slow the fall, but we will all eventually hit bottom and go splat!!
Evil can not be blamed on the teacher. The student is equally blamable, perhaps more so for actually doing the crime.
If you are strong, use strength. If you are smart, use intelligence. If you have nothing, you are dead or inanimate.
(This one is original.)We all die, how we live it is what counts. (If you are lucky, you might have a nice afterlife.)"
Every rule is best for the type of person who made it.
(Disputable) Only bad people want to fight against reasonable rules.
Good advice deserves repeating till someone listens.
Humans are organic robots that are programmed by their environment and themselves.
Happiness is artificial. We can not touch it, smell it, see it, taste it, or hear it, so how do we sense happiness? How do we feel sad? It can be only something in the mind.
(To go with above.) Why do we want things? Toys for example, why do we want them? Why do we want to watch television or kiss? What makes people want to have sex? To feel pleasure? But what is pleasure? Because someone told us it was pleasure? Because it causes a chemical reaction in the head?
When as a child a person develops their way of thinking, which is everything in a person. It is their soul. (That is why I am for abortion. Babies are not sentient beings. They are organic robots without programming. There is nothing differentiating between them and other machines. If life is defined by a heart, lungs, and brains, than I can make life, but I cannot. It requires a spark, a soul, a programming that makes it alive and an individual.)
The past is the building blocks for the present, and both are the building blocks for the future. Remove the past, and all fall. Idle in the present, the future will be left not built.
If I were foolish enough to believe I was a good man, then I would stop trying to be good.
Rules are for those who break them.
Everything here is true, it is the time and circumstances that make them false.
To stop persevering is to begin to fail. If we do not begin to try, we can not do anything.
If you do not think highly of yourself, then who else will?
It is often the liar that complains about liars and the cheaters that complain about those who cheat. The ones with no honor are the first to spot their own kind.
The ones without intelligence are often the ones to call others nerds, the ones without skill who calls others cheaters, the ignorant that call themselves the best.
I like winning and I appreciate losing.
To hate is to be ignorant.
To be a worm is to conform, not to be different.
Perseverance and desperation are what wins wars.
The price of vanity is ignorance, but to be without it is to be nothing.
Conflict is the soul of knowledge, take it away and why bothering being sentient?
Where opportunity will not provide, will will.
On some degree all are my enemies, on some degree all are my friends.
Everyone is a fool, everyone is a sage, everyone is stupider than me, everyone is wiser than me.
Everyone is a victim of life.
The sage turns everything into an advantage, the fool let's everything block him.
Complaining is a waste of breath and time, mere words will not quicken the thoughts or move the obstacle.
Doing one or a couple good things does not make one a good person. It takes some consistency.
I hate being in debt, rarely financially, but often in other ways.
It can always be better.
The wise man knows he is a fool, the fool accepts that he is a fool.
Conflicts make life durable. Without conflict, life would lose meaning.
Life without love is no life.
Civilization is unholy and a terror. The balance between man and nature has been greatly offset.
Better to do it right the first time than to do it right later.
Fear works.
One bullet can never defeat me. To destroy me my body, mind, and soul must be destroyed, THEN the destruction of my memory. Only after accomplishing that can one destroy me.
Justice and retribution is science fiction.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they must be corrected if they have the wrong ones. ?
Religion is made for humans to feel purpose and to make them feel better about dying.
Doing wrong things is right, especially if everyone else is doing things wrong.
Don't fight for ego.
All definite good or evil brought into this world comes from ourselves.
So long as human (greed) exists, innocents will suffer and die.
If aliens treated humans the way humans treated animals, there would be many atrocities.
Is hypocrisy allowed for the open mind if it is against the closed?
Humans should be proud of their power, they are the most violent, murderous, destructive, and complex race on the planet.
The most deadly combination in the world is love (A manipulative emotion) and sex (An act where civilization and moral boundaries are lost).
9-4 True power would be to do something that you can not
Corollary: Being a good man is difficult, but not as difficult as changing into one.
9-30 Speculating can lead to the discovery of facts, but assumptions can just as easily pervert the truth."
10-12 Graffiti in weird places doesn't show how clever the vandals were, it just shows how idiots are everywhere
7-03-99 Why do we not kill when others are stealing, hurting, raping, and killing?
7-20-99 If you ever wondered "why?" then you would be either a scientist, a philosopher, or a founder of a religion.
7-20-99 If you treat me with suspicion, you will only find reasons to support your belief.
7-20-99 If you have preconceived about me before knowing me, you will... 1) ...never know the real me. 2) ...only see what you had wanted.
7-20-99 If religion merely taught good morals, there would be no atheists, unfortunately there is no such religion.
7-20-99 My quarrel with religion is that it teaches people to not think.
7-20-99 If all people are equal, then why do we all look so different?
7-20-99 If an honorable man is forced to live in a world with dishonorable people, would the honorable man be dishonorable if he rid the world of the dishonorable?
8-18-99 The type of people who scare me most are not the criminals or the insane, they are predictable and they can be caught. It is everyone else who scares me, because they do not break laws, yet they sin and cannot be caught.
8-18-99 The worth of a nice guy is measured by how much he suffers for his fellow man.
8-20-99 No one respects the nice guy, because no one fears the nice guy.
8-21-99 Religion is to be applauded. It has set up groups of millions of people and has trained them to destroy non-believers without even arousing anyone's suspicion. And to even think of abandoning religion is a sin with sets of divine punishments that cannot be seen. Most impressive indeed.
9-09-99 Sometimes its hard being an Asian American male in America, but I think that it'd be even worse to be an Asian American female. There are undeniably countless possibilities of conflicts that can arise from living in a black and white country that resides within a male dominated world.
10-20-99 To be hurt by someone you love once is infinitely times better than to fall in love with someone you hate.
12-14-99 Clarity of thought can only be found through ignorance.
12-14-99 There is no "evil" and "wrong", there is only conflict of opinions between small groups of individuals and big groups of individuals.
04-24-00 The only thing worse than committing a crime is to get away with a crime. (Crime being defined by the level of pain one inflicts upon another, instead of being defined as when someone breaks the law...)
05-29-00 Pick your friends wisely, for they can be your greatest enemies.
07-19-00 Everyone is guilty.
07-19-00 It is like the Christian religion says, the price of knowledge is innocence.
08-15-00 Every thing worth doing costs something. (This goes with the quote "If it's free, it's worthless.")
08-15-00 I'd rather fail in life my way, rather than succeed under the thumb of someone else.
08-16-00 Second place is merely the first place loser.
08-19-00 In life, either you sit down and let death get you, or you can stand and give death a run for his money.
Golden Rules (Ones that I make that are either really true/funny/or useful)
Trust no one.
Treat others who you think will follow this rule the way you want to be treated, unless this person does not deserve to be treated that way.
No one is at the mercy of the Fates, all have free minds and free will. Only they, themselves, can limit their power of will. Only the person who allows Fate to rule his or her life will be at Fate's mercy.
Responsibility and power are directly proportional. The more power one has, the more obligated that individual should be toward putting his skills to the benefit of others.
The greatest enemies are the ones created in the mind.
It is more important to be a good man than any other man (Religious, nice, social, strong, whatever...).
We see life through a distorted mirror. Everything is a reflection that is marred, blocked, or distorted by our biases, preconceptions, and our limited perspective. It is through this narrow view of humanity that we create reality.
Offending a girl is the most heinous sin of all."
Others people's quotes
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.", Babylon
"If you stay home, a plane may crash on your head.", Mrs. Cheung
Response: "If you go out, you may be hit by a car."-Ken
"All men must die, but not all men live."- Braveheart Ananda seems to like this 'life life to the fullest' idea. It is an admirable way to live.
"It is easiar to conquer a bad habit today, than it will be tomorrow."
"It is a rare man who is recognized for what he is." -Schmendrick -The Last Unicorn
"We are never what we seem, and rarely what dream." -Schmendrick The Last Unicorn
"I love who I love." -Prince Lir The Last Unicorn
"Yet you take me for a clown, or a clod, or a betrayer, and so must I be if you see me so. The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes." -Schmendrick The Last Unicorn
"'We do lead a good life here, or if we don't, I don't know anything about it. I sometimes think that a little fear, a little hunger, might be good for us-sharpen our souls, so to speak.'" The Last Unicorn
"'We steal from the poor because they can't fight back-most of them-and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.'" The Last Unicorn
"'Robin Hood is a myth,' Captain Cully said nervously, "a classic example of the heroic folk-figure synthesized out of need. John Henry is another. Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.'" The Last Unicorn
"He tried to explain to the oak that love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal..." The Last Unicorn
"'Who has choices need not choose.
We must, who have none.
We can love but what we lose-
What is gone is gone.'" -Molly imitating Mommy Fortuna imitating Elli (The personification of old age.)
The Last Unicorn
"'It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space-that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.'" -Skull The Last Unicorn
"'Was none of it real at all? Am I real, then?'" The Last Unicorn
"'I have played my part in putting you where you are, and you dare not deny it! Villainy has its rights too.'" The Last Unicorn
"'Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.'" -Schmendrick The Last Unicorn
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." Catcher in the Rye
"It is not what or who, but how and why." Jen (It is a scientific approach to things, is it not?)
"The truth is how you perceive it." Jen
"To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not is a disease." Lao Tsu
"Only human arrogance would assume that the message was meant for men." Spock
"To know others is wisdom, to know oneself is enlightenment." Lao Tzu
"So where does the child go from here?" "Ghost in the Shell"
"The Internet is vast." "Ghost in the Shell"
"What is a person but the sum of their memories?" -Kira with one of Dax's past lives
"I would like sleeping more if I were awake to enjoy it." Garfield the cat
"We are all made of flesh and blood. Why do we make such a mess of the world?" Old man from "Swordsman"
"A hero of flesh and blood can be helpless if a bad person has captured your loved ones." Old man from "Swordsman"
"Let music and romance live on forever." Moonlight Knight
"Victory is life!" Jem'hadar
"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men." Thoreau
"Before drinking the blood of Christ, you must eat the body of Christ." -Michelle Endicot
"Stop scaring everyone Ken!" -Doug Lee
"Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"This is a difficult set of variables to sequence." -Data's opinion on dancing.
"Everyone has their reasons, that's what's so frightening." Kira (Gul Dukat had just sold out Cardassia to the Dominion, and his daughter is trying to figure out why.)
"Men fought over Steven, shared their rations with him, gave him cigarettes-all for the temporary use of his body. And what, the doctor asked himself, what's so disgusting about it anyway? When you think of "normal sex," well, clinically it's just as disgusting." King Rat
"A man's got to help his friends or there's no point in anything." King Rat
"I don't think it matters what you call God. God won't mind if he is recognized as Jesus or Allah, or Buddha or Jehovah, or even You! - because if he is God, then he knows that we are only finite and don't know too much about anything." King Rat
"A rose by any other name will smell just as sweet." -Shakespeare
"It is the silent ones who are the liars." Jessica Cheung
"In this unrighteous world there is nothing to believe in." Queen Beryl
"I've saved your life, it belongs to me now." The Shadow
"Why do people rebuild things they know are going to be destroyed?
Why do people cling to life when they know they can't live forever?
Think how meaningless each of your lives is!" ~Kefka
"It's not the net result of one's life that's important!
It's the day-to-day concerns, the celebration of life...and love!
It's enough if people are able to experience the joy that each day can
bring!" ~Terra
"Our minds are like parachutes, they only function when open." -Bumper sticker.
"It's such a bother, laughing at nothing all the time." -Deed from "Lodoss War"
"She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her...." -Gatsby
"There once was a boy who dreamed of being a hero, who sincerely believed in the battle to banish darkness from a world of light. But light and darkness are equal, and where one exists, so too must the other. And when the boy finally realized this, he had taken a first step toward becoming a true hero." -Lodoss War
"There are people who say a lot to cover up the fact they have nothing to say." -???
"Those who know when to fight and when not to fight will be victorious." Sun Tzu
"You are an imperfect being created by an imperfect being." -Borg Queen (Also message to Christians)
"There is a time to work and a time to play." -Sidney Yuen (Dad) This quote represents the most difficult aspect of life, the management of the limited substance, time.
"Was he ever a boy or a girl? I never could tell. He was too cool." -Tasuki
Tanis: How do we know whether the life of any creature has fulfilled its destiny? I have known the very old to die in bitterness and despair. I have seen young children die before their time but leave behind such a legacy of love and joy that grief for their passing was tempered by the knowledge that their lives had given much to others.
Forestmaster: You have answered your own question, Tanis Half-Elven, far better than I could, Say that our lives are measured not by the gain but by the giving.
"I do not follow him... For the time being, Tanis and I simply happen to be traveling in the same direction." Raistlin
"The future changes as we stand here, else we are the game pieces of the gods, not their heirs, as we have been promised." Raistlin
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Seneca
"God! Save me from your followers." -Bumper sticker
"'That's shit and you know it. And another thin while we're on the subject. God! You know, I think God's a maniac, a sadistic, evil maniac, a bloodsucker-' ... 'Look at God,' 'God's nothing but evil-if He really is God.' ... 'The Inquisition. Remember? All the thousands that were burned and tortured to death in His Name? By the Catholic sadists? And we won't even think about the Aztecs and Incas and the poor bloody Indian millions. And the Protestants burning and killing the Catholics; and the Catholics, the Jews and the Mohammedans; and the Jews, more Jews-and the the Mormons and Quakers and the whole stinking mess. Kill, torture, burn! Just so long as it's in the name of God, you're all right. What a lot of hypocrisy! Don't give me faith! It's nothing" King Rat
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our lost greater." Tanis
"Anyone ruled by their emotions is a fool." Nakago
"All my life is an illusion." Guy whose head exploded and was torn off by Marou
"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." Proverbs 17:28
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence" -A.B. Alcott reclusive
"Half the failures in this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping." -Julius Hare
"No one is more unhappy than he who never had bad luck; He could never test himself." -Seneca
"What is a friend? One soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle
"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold." -Zelda Fitzgerald
"A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses." -Unknown
"Wmen are made to be loved, not understood." -Oscar Wilde
"I want to feel what you feel, touch what you touch, see what you see, love what you love" -Mina Murry - Bram Stolkers Dracula
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it." -John D. Rockefeller
"It doesn't matter where you go or what you do, or how much you have. What matters is who you have beside you." T.F.
"To discover new oceans, you must have the courage to lose sight of the shore..." -Michelle Barbera
"What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me..." DMB
"Character is what you do when no one is looking." -Ananda quoted.
"We don't remember days, we remember moments. Make moments worth remembering." -Elizabeth Kim
"There is one success-to be able to spend your life your own way." Anna Lee
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." -Crane
"Love is like a rose, but are you willing to take the thorns that go along?"
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Catherine S. Wong
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." -Sophocles
"For the worm, it is easier to burrow in the hard ground than go fishing." -?
"Do not try to learn about yourself; study the world; you will find yourself reflected in it." -James Feibleman
"But, I want to know what love is now." Terra (Final Fantasy 6)
"A man who struts in my presence hopes to find in my eyes an importance missing in his own." -Ben Hecht
"A hundred travel brochures isn't worth a trip." -Isamu Dison
"Why rely on the skills that God gave you? If you ask me, cheating is the gift that man gives himself." -M. Burns
"A dream that comes true easily isn't really a dream." -Nadeisco
"Riches are not from an abundance of worldy goods, but from a contented mind" Mohammed
"When you love you feel a fascination in ever the sorrows of those you love." -Helen by Euripides
"No rights for the wicked." -Lina Inverse from Slayers
"A gentleman in love may behave like a madman but not like a dunce." -La Rochefoucauld
"Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." -Chekhov
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." -Some Star Trek fan
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" -Edith Wharton
Data: I am a machine. Does that disturb you?
Riker: Frankly, yes.
Data: I understand; prejudice is very human.
Riker: Now that does disturb me. -Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The real test of class is how you treat people who cannot possibly do you any good." -Ann Landers
"Experience is the harshest teacher. She tests you first, then gives you the lesson" -unknown
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." -(M. Kathleen Casey)
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -Fox from "The Little Prince"
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa
"Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with." -Oracle Humor List
"Paranoids are people too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too." -Oracle Humor
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Oracle Humor
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." Oracle Humor
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." Oracle Humor
"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." -Oracle Humor
"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now." -Oracle Humor
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." -Confucious
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend." -unknown
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -Abraham Lincoln
"Truth is not determined by majority vote." -Doug Gwyn
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." -Evan Hardin
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -Voltaire
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful." -Benjamin Franklin
Geordi: "You're not just another mechanical system Data."
Data: "Thank you. Nor are you just another biological organism."
"But I had no role models. Asian people were not generally thought of as sexy, unless they were Asian women, and they were sexy in a really trashy way" -B. D. Wong
"Classical music is to Asian Americans what athletics is to African Americans." -Darrell Hamamoto, Visiting Professor at NYU
"Advertising is inherently deceptive." -Lisa Miller from "News radio"
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the world." -Bible?
"Sex is violence against women." -?
"If a man is convinced that he will die tomorrow, he'll probably find a way to make that happen." -Guinan "Best of Both Worlds Pt. 2"
"The law isn't used to protect us but used by society to get rid of & punish those that don't conform."-Michi from "Majo No Joken"
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure." -Russell Baker
"Ore no seigi wa tada hitotsu. Aku Soku Zan!" -Saitoh Hajime from "Rurouni Kenshin"
Tuvok's speech when in a flashback on Sulu's ship. Dialogue is a discussion about human nature between Tuvok and Dimitri.
"When in pain, think of the times when you are not in pain. When happy, do not forget the times when you were in pain." -Chinese saying.
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." -Mark Twain
"There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor" -Joseph Anderson
"Don't we often have to act unthinkingly when we want to simulate luck to do something for us?" - G.E. Lessing
Data: "Are you saying that there is some value in losing?"
Dr. Polaski: "Yes. Yes! It's the great teacher."
Religion
"Random" Neon Genesis Evangelion quotes
"You avoid initial contact at all costs. Do you fear to feel other people? Being ignorant of others, you will never be betrayed or hurt, though you will never escape from feeling sadness. A person cannot erase sadness forever. Everyone is alone. However, people can forget, and so they are able to live." -Kaoru
"Man is always alone, because man is an individual." -Kaoru
"Man can forget [pain], that is how humans can survive." -Gendo
(Gendo continued "But there are some things that never should be forgotten.")
"The choice of death is the ultimate freedom." -Kaoru
"As long as one is alive, one can find happiness in the world." -Yui Ikari
"Nothing is born in death." -Gendo
Wise sayings from the Transformers
"Following leaders leads nowhere." Afterburner
" If you look first, you may not leap." Air Raid
"Looks are always deceiving." Arcee
"A moment of indecision can be your last." Backstreet
" Speak now if you intend to ever speak at all. " Beastbox
" Anyone who is not a predator is considered prey. " Birdbrain
" To know your own limits, you must first know your foe's limits. " Bludgeon
"The strongest tyrant cannot crush freedom of thought." Brainstorm
" My bite is worse than my bark. " Buzzsaw
"A battle plan is only as good as its programmer." Chromedome
" Complete data analysis is essential for the synthesis of successful
strategy. " Computron
"Compassion is the currency of losers." Cutthroat
" Things are never as bad as they seem -- usually they're worse. " Darkwing
"As long as one innocent being is threatened, none are truly free." Defensor
" The price of victory is never too high. " Doubledealer
" Leaders are for fools who need to follow. " Fangry
" Prepare for war, but strive for peace. " Fortress Maximus
"Words can cut deeper than steel." Freeway
" My power is everything; defeat is absurd! " Galvatron
" Run hot, but always keep your cool. " Getaway
"To know others you must first know yourself." Goldbug
" Beauty is in everything except war." Grapple
"Among the winners, there is no room for the weak." Grimlock
"Me Grimlock not nice dino." Grimlock
" War is a problem, never a solution. " Groove
"War is the playground of the ignorant." Highbrow
"Strive for perfection even if others must suffer." Hook
"If at first you don't succeed, keep trying." Hosehead
"Observe everything, remember even more." Hound
"High tech circuitry is no replacment for guts." Ironhide
"Do it with style or don't bother doing it." Jazz
"Among the mysteries of science lies the key to victory." Jetfire
" Enjoy each moment like it's your last. " Joyride
"The past is the greatest teacher." Kup
"Adventure is found in unlikely places." Landfill
"A battle front is only as good as its supply line." Long Haul
"Peace through tyranny." Megatron
"Prepare for oblivion!" Megatron
"Vigilance is the foundation upon which victory is built." Metroplex
"Who and what I am I hide from the enemy." Mirage
"Like a ninja in the night, I strike swiftly and unseen."
"Keep shooting; eventually you're bound to hit something." Misfire
"Truth is revealed in the smallest detail." Nightbeat
"It's not who's the fastest, it's who reaches the finish line." Nosecone
"The mind is the greatest weapon." Onslaught
"Unyielding resolve has no conqueror." Omega Supreme
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." Optimus Prime
"Rules are detours on the road of life." Outback
"There are only two kinds of creatures: predator and prey." Overbite
"To stop me, you have to catch me first." Powerglide
"One being's junk is another's art." Pipes
"Logic is the ultimate weapon." Prowl
"To live is to hurt; to hunt is to live!" Piranacon
"Be brief of speech and long on action." Pointblank
" In my business, there are no friends, only suspects. " Punch-Counterpunch
"Nothing lasts forever, so why not destroy it now?" Quake
"The faster it is, the better I like it!" Quickmix
" A confused enemy is a defeated enemy. " Quickswitch
"Those who conquer act; those who are conquered think!" Rampage
"You break it, I'll remake it." Ratchet
"All good things succumb to those who wait." Razorclaw
"Caution can never be overused." Red Alert
" See and you can know, know and you can destroy. " Reflector
"Too much information is never enough." Rewind
"No one is innocent!" Rodimus Prime
"Destroy what's below and what's above will follow." Rumble
"Everything is worth something, even me." Scavenger
"Generosity has its own rewards." Scoop
"Seeing is, by itself, not enough for believing." Searchlight
"Be unyielding as the ocean waves and your enemies shall fall." Seaspray
"The darkest depths reveal the darkest secrets." Seawing
" Clarity of thought before rashness of action. " Shockwave
"I don't break rules, I bend them -- a lot." Sideswipe
"Don't look down, look straight ahead." Silverbolt
" Life is worth living only as long as there are enemies worth
destroying. " Sixshot
"Deep down, we are more like than unlike humans." Skids
"Only by studying the past can we win the present." Skydive
"Trust me if you dare." Skyjack
"The best achievments are worth repeating." Sky Lynx
"Strike when the enemy isn't looking." Skywarp
"I have no need for friends, even less for enemies." Slag
"I'm even better than I think." Slingshot
" Expect betrayal and your friends won't disappoint you. " Slugfest
" Sometimes, if you wait long enough, problems solve themselves. " Slapdash
"A look can be deceiving; a touch can be lethal." Smokescreen
"The secrets of the Universe reveal themselves to those who listen." Soundwave
"Always show compassion, it's a good cover for your true motives." Starscream
"Shoot everywhere-- since that's where the enemies are." Strafe
" Rule one is: There are no rules! " Stranglehold
"You have to know where you are before you know what to do." Streetwise
"Respect your foes' abilities as you would your own." Spinster
"To live is to fight: to die is to stop." Superion
"Believing in yourself improves your aim better than target practice." Sureshot
"Make deals, not war." Swindle
"Fear can hit targets unreachable to bullets." Swoop
"Embrace your enemies. . . until they're terminated." Tentakil
" The thrill is in the journey. " Topspin
"Undisciplined thinking can make doing the simplest of tasks impossible." Ultra Magnus
" Consistency is victory. " Ultra Magnus
"Look good and you'll have the world in your pocket." Wide Load
"Never do what your enemy expects you to do." Wheeljack
" If used logically, madness makes a great weapon. " Whirl
" Strike fear into your enemy, and you've won half the battle. " Wildfly
" Knowledge is the most deadly weapon of all. " Wingspan
" Collect and save, collect and save." Wreck-Gar
"I'm not afraid of you Grimlock!" -Megatron
"Good, me Grimlock like stupid enemies." -Grimlock
"Why did they make you Aerialbot leader anyway? You have no sense of adventure." -Air Raid
"Exactly." -Silverbolt
"Please! Make my death painless!" -One of the Stunticons (Dragstrip? Breakdown?)
"Why do you always talk to yourself?" -Blackarachnia
"I just have a penchant for intelligent conversation." -Megatron
Comics
Calvin and Hobbes
C: People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world.
For Better of for Worse
Mike's friend: I mean, most of the exams are essays, right? It's not like math where the answer is either right or wrong! Essays are evaluated by people who either like what you write, or they don't! In this case, we are at the mercy of the educators. We are at the mercy of their egos, their prejudices, their narrow-minded adherence to the past!!!
Luann
About Valentines:
Luann's Mom: Hm, so we need an "unattached day".
Luann: We already have 364 of those.
Songs
"...Love will not live if it remains but a dream
If a desire should possess, then but a hollow shell becomes but still . . .
If that's what you want then come chase after me..." - Moon Revenge
"...Aura's that call for each other even when enveloped by darkness
Cannot be put out and will not falter
I burn with a vision of our parting
But I still wish the next one in my life could be you
The deeper the love the more greed it has
Even wanting to grip on your every sigh makes it unjust but still..." - Moon Revenge
The Last Unicorn
When the last eagle flies
over the last crumbling mountain
And the last lion roars
at the last dusty fountain
In the shadow of the forest
Though she may be old and worn
They will stare unbelieving
at the last unicorn.
When the first breath of winter
Through the flower is icing
And you heard through the north
and the pale moon is rising
and it seems all is dying
and leave the world to mourn
in the distance hear her laughter
of the last unicorn
I'm alive
I'm alive
When the last moon has cast
over the last star of morning
Then the future has past
without a last desperate warning
Then look into the sky where through
the clouds has been sworn
Look and see her
how she sparkles
it's the last unicorn.
I'm alive
I'm alive
Hero of Heroes
The seas laugh, lashing on both shores.
Carried in the wave, we only have here and now
Heavens laugh, at the troubled world
Only they know who is to win and lose
The mountains laugh, the rain is afar
As the waves grow old, the world still goes
The clear winds laugh such a feeling of solitude
Bygone comrades leave behind a tinge of melancholy
The Earth laughs, solitude no more
My sentiments laughing still.
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la...
Pieces of songs
"Listen to your heart..."
"What about love?"
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