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[–] demonmariner@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

"Elaine, if I'd a knowed that you'd a wanted to went, I'd a seen that you'd a got to get to go."

[–] Hellified@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

"I ain't afeared a going where I never been after." -Mountain Jack from Grizzly Adams

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago

This, too, shall pass.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Shakespeare

[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

  2. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."

  3. You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

  4. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

[–] wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Somewhat famously this line (the entire soliloquy actually) was improvised by Rutger Hauer in the moment, so not strictly written down. Just taking the piss mate, best fucking movie ever!

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

I think, therefore I am.

-Descartes

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

This isn't the greatest sentence, this is just a tribute.

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago

“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”

- Lucy Parsons

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I also would say Hayes Carll, in the American Dream song (though it's partly the delivery)

"Nothing changes, even if it wants to."

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

[–] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

It has not been written yet. But it will be soon. Look in the obituary sections.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"He who fights monsters must see that he doesn't become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I hate how often I see this quote without attribution.

Also: "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

Ummm

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

Yeah, that's Kelly Clarkson, m'kay?

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Never half ass two things, instead whole ass one thing.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move".

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I'll read this phrase but I won't enjoy it

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Personally I think the golden rule it has many variations.

e.g. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.

Then another is from V for Vendetta

Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy. And ideas are bullet-proof!

"Money can't buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a taxi than on a bus." - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German literary critic)

I changed the last word in the translation to bus for the US readers. It should be tram or streetcar but I assumed bus is more common and widely known.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed."

[–] almizilero@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

"Long days and pleasant nights."

[–] Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago

You have nothing to loose but your chains

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Hold my beer!

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The chinese poem "The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions"

Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den

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[–] the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that's how much faith I have in humanity."

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

I live on a one way street. The amount of vehicles that zoom by in the wrong direction is ridiculous

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Do you think... God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created, here on Earth? "

Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I thought this was his character in Con Air

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