[Quotes] Sophocles

"I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am." -- Sophocles

[Quotes] Roman Proverb

 

"Audi, vide, tace, si vis vivere in pace"

Hear, see, be silent, if you would live in peace. 

-- Roman Proverb

[Quotes] My Co-worker

"I'm trying to figure out a way that this is your fault." - My co-worker, to her husband.

[Quotes] Raymond Chandler

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." - Raymond Chandler

[Quotes] Eternity

"Eternity is really long, especially near the end." - Woody Allen.

[Quotes] Ursula LeGuin

"Here lay a dead Karg with yellow hair long, loose, and bloody; there lay the village tanner, killed in battle like a king." - A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin, Chapter 1: Warriors in the Mist

[Quotes] Latin Proverb

"Revenge is a confession of pain" - Latin Proverb

[Quotes] Mary, Queen of Scots

"No more tears now; I will think upon revenge"
- Mary, Queen of Scots

[Quotes] Q is for a Quote from Tupac Shakur

"Wars come and go, but my soldier stay eternal." - Tupac Shakur

[Quotes] Cole Younger

"We tried a desperate game and lost. But we are rough men used to rough ways, and we will abide by the consequences." - Cole Younger, 1876, member of the James-Younger Gang

[Quotes] George Bernard Shaw

I saw the Boondock Saints a long time ago and I think it's a pretty good cult movie. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day was release last year but I haven't had the chance to see it yet. It's on the Netflix queue.

[Quotes] Gray People Doing Gray Jobs

"We are most days, gray people doing gray jobs. Shadows in a world of black and white. But then you know, every once and awhile we are offered the opportunity where we have the chance to do something that is ABSOLUTELY right to its very core. This is one of those times."

- Commissioner Andrew Schmidt, The Closer, Season 2, Serving the King, Part 1.

[Quotes] Freeman Dyson

"You can't possibly get a good technology going without an enormous number of failures. It's a universal rule. If you look at bicycles, there were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked. You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, after we've been building them for 100 years, it's very difficult to understand just why a bicycle works - it's even difficult to formulate it as a mathematical problem. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential." - Freeman Dyson

[Quotes] Mark Twain

"Be good and you will be lonesome" - Mark Twain, Following the Equator

[Quotes] An Italian Proverb

"The right man comes at the right time." - Italian Proverb

"Hero" says it all.