Zalanthan-esque Quote of the Day

[Morrolan]

Let's collect Zalanthas-related aphorisms that we can't quite use in game here. Bring 'em if you got 'em!

"Sociopaths don't live in society. They live on it."

[Delirium]

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight

[ShaLeah]

"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams..."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality."
— Richard Wright (Native Son)

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
— Frederick Douglass

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
— Henry David Thoreau

"But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved."
— Lauren DeStefano (Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2))

[Riev]

Everyone thinks they have common sense, until they do something uncommonly stupid. - Me

[Kismetic]

"I have come here to smoke krentakh and kick ass.  And I'm all outta krentakh."

[Desertman]

Crush your enemies, see the driven before you, hear the lamentation of their women mates. - Conan the Barbarian

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. - Durzo Blint

It smells like old whore in here. - Durzo Blint

[Is Friday]

Everyone thinks they have common sense, until they do something uncommonly stupid. - Me

I think you misunderstand the intent of the thread.

[greasygemo]

"I think you misunderstand the intent of the thread." - Is Friday.

[Malken]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Amos the Ranger

          - Malken

[Delirium]

Basically the entire script of Kill Bill (blame IsFriday for reminding me), but there's a few in particular I love:

"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality." - The Bride

"That woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die... but then again, so does she. So I guess we'll see." Bud

"I'm a killer! I'm a murdering bastard, you know that. And there are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard." - Bill

"No, you're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person. But every once in a while, you can be a real cunt." - Bill

[Delirium]

For all those political schemers out there:

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain

[razorback]

"Well hello Mr. Fancy Pants. You ain't leadin' but two things right now, Jack and Shit, and Jack left town." - Ash, Army of Darkness

[greasygemo]

Basically the entire script of Kill Bill (blame IsFriday for reminding me), but there's a few in particular I love:

"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality." - The Bride

"That woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die... but then again, so does she. So I guess we'll see." Bud

"I'm a killer! I'm a murdering bastard, you know that. And there are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard." - Bill

"No, you're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person. But every once in a while, you can be a real cunt." - Bill

"Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in."
- Hanzo, Kill Bill

[Ender]

"That woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die... but then again, so does she. So I guess we'll see." Bud

I have used this quote in character.

The same character quoted more parts of this speech than I care to admit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRDtw8vG2gA

[gfair]

"I've ... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mm heh.  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched ... c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gates. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like ...  tears in the rain. Time to die."

-- death soliloquy, Roy Batty, Bladerunner

Someone in this game has had this very experience through the eyes of their character.

[Delirium]

"All these moments will be lost in time, like grains of sand in the desert. Time to die."

[Nyr]

"Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight...or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid...mostly only when I'm gettin' paid."  -- Byn Trooper Cobb

[Desertman]

"Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight...or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid...mostly only when I'm gettin' paid."  -- Byn Trooper Cobb

Used this/different variations of this in game more times than I care to shamefully admit.

[Nyr]

Actually, Byn Trooper Cobb really should be part of the T'zai Byn docs.  Definite mercenary mentality.  More quotes from him:

(after being told that you can't get paid if you're dead):  "Can't get paid if you crawl away like a bitty little bug neither. I got a share of this job. Ten percent of nothin' is, let me do the math here... nothin' and a nothin', carry the nothin'... "

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe, *maybe* we'll come back for those morons who got themselves caught."

"Don't much see the benefit in gettin' involved in stranger's troubles without a up-front price negotiated."

[MeTekillot]

"I tried to kill him? That's kankshit. I've either killed a man or I didn't, I ain't ever tried to kill nobody."

[Ender]

Actually, Byn Trooper Cobb really should be part of the T'zai Byn docs.  Definite mercenary mentality.  More quotes from him:

7% seems kinda low, Sarge.

[Desertman]

Actually, Byn Trooper Cobb really should be part of the T'zai Byn docs.  Definite mercenary mentality.  More quotes from him:

7% seems kinda low, Sarge.

Seven percent's standard!

[Morrolan]

"Don't much see the benefit in gettin' involved in stranger's troubles without a up-front price negotiated."

"They're whores."

[razorback]

"How about dying with a little dignity?"  - 47, Hitman

"Because I'm smaller. When I run, I have to travel further. When I get hurt, the hole is bigger." Yang, Expendables

"Remember, rinth-rat, when I promised I would kill you last? ... I lied." Ahhhhnold, Commando

[Ender]

Actually, Byn Trooper Cobb really should be part of the T'zai Byn docs.  Definite mercenary mentality.  More quotes from him:

7% seems kinda low, Sarge.

Seven percent's standard!

I'm sure you're treated very well.   You get the perks, got your own room.