QUOTATIONS

All real Americans love the sting of battle.


Someday, and that day may never come,
I'll call upon you to do a service for me.



But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Badges?
We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges.
I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

I'm so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had.


Of course I'm happy. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Bob Dylan

It has served us well, this myth of Christ
Pope Leo x

Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious... and don't call me Shirley
I must pause for one fast second and say a fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "No".
Woody Allen

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.



I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis






"The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out," he confessed to ROLLING STONE in 1988, "and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse, it all just about got to be too much."


Some might stupidly imagine that money is the primary reward to the man who loves his work. But I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work itself. That goes without saying. I said "to the man who loves his work." The virtuoso. He loves his work stupid. this isn't even worth saying. I'm just boasting. Just remember, there is more to life than pleasure and happiness, or what's the point. I mean we can't all be virtuosos.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. But keep your day job.
Thomas A. Edison


If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
— "A Nation at Risk" (1983)



"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Faith: firm belief in something for which there is no proof".

Does this make faith inconsistent with reason? I would say yes. Reason demands that you look for evidence and believe accordingly - which is exactly what we do when we trust a friend because they've been reliable in the past, or doubt a rumour until we've checked on the facts.



Never marry a man who has no friends. I am always amazed at the number of men I have counseled who have no friends.
Father Pat Connor

In the second year of the great civil war, when the Irish brigades marched through the streets, New york was a city full of tribes. War chiefs, rich and poor. It wasn't a city really, It was more a furnace where cities someday might be forged.



For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
George F. Will




Crack that whip
Give the past the slip


Too bad, get fucked, who gives a shit
Mick Jagger


Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.


Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
From the Oliver Stone film Wall Street 1980
Read by Michael Douglas


Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. You not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis Grief


San Francisco in 1966 was what the whole young and popular world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war. It was the Sixth Reich.


Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

... These guys are proud of what they did. They did Dealey Plaza! They took out the President of the United States! That's entertainment!

FERRIE Oh man, why don't you stop. This is too fuckin' big for you! Who did Kennedy? It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma. Even the shooters don't fuckin' know! Don't you get it yet? I can't be talking like this. They're gonna kill me. I'm gonna die! (he sits down, cracking, sobbing) I don't know what happened. All I wanted in the world was to be a Catholic priest - live in a monastery, study ancient Latin manuscripts, pray, serve God. But I had this one terrible, fatal weakness. They defrocked me. And then I started to lose everything.


JIM ... some story ... the whole thing. It's like it never happened.
X It never did.


Napalm
Kilgore stands there, hands on hips, looking at the burning jungle in the distance.

KILGORE
You smell that? Do you smell that?

LANCE
What?

KILGORE
(pointing to trees)
Napalm, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that.
(crouches down)
I love the smell of napalm in the
morning. You know, one time we
had a hill bombed for twelve
hours...and when it was all over,
I walked up. We didn't find one
of them, not one stinking dink
body. The smell, you know that
gasoline smell? The whole hill-
smelled like-victory.

He looks off nostalgically. A shell comes in and HITS in the background. Willard and the soldiers react; Kilgore ignores it.

KILGORE
Someday this war's gonna end.



This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold


For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes


Service providers and broadcasters say unhappy customers can always go elsewhere, but choice is limited.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken


EISENHOWER
The conjunction of an immense military
establishment and a large arms industry is new
in the American experience. The total influence
- economic, political, even spiritual - is felt
in every city, every statehouse, every office of
the Federal Government ... In the councils of
government we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist ... We
must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted ...

Badges? We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.



My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.. .
Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him,
that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.

What we got here is failure to communicate,
Cool Hand Luke


I'm so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had.

Butch: What're you looking at, friend?
Vincent: I ain't your friend, palooka.
Butch: What did you say?
Vincent: I think you heard me just fine punchy.

What we got here is failure to communicate,

Badges? We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

It's his ship now, his command. He's in charge, the boss, the head man, top dog, big cheese, head honcho, number one

The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly.
The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield

But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?

It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child will be a masculine child.

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country

My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.. .
Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him,
that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.



The world is full of complainers.
But the fact is, nothing comes with
a guarantee. I don't care if you're
the Pope of Rome, President of the
United States, or even Man of the
Year--something can always go wrong.
And go ahead, complain, tell your
problems to your neighbor, ask for
help--watch him fly. Now in Russia,
they got it mapped out so that
everyone pulls for everyone else--
that's the theory, anyway. But what
I know about is Texas..