Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
-- Winston D. Churchill
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
-- Gen. George S. Patton
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When we say "War is over if you want it," we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
-- John Lennon
If you want to make a bad day worse, just long for the impossible.
-- Calvin & Hobbes
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
-- Sarah Connor, T2: Judgement day
>> We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
<< It's in your nature to destroy yourselves...
-- John Connor & The Terminator, T2: Judgement Day
Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.
-- Steven Falken, Wargames
>> It is not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything
>> On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
>> We are all part of the same compost heap.
>> You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
-- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
>> You think I'm a loser? Because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, and a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every day when I wake up in the morning, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep. So I get up. I have my watered-down Tang and my still-frozen Pop Tart. I get in my car with no gas, no upholstery, and six more payments. I fight honking traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes onto the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I wanted to. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never know the joy of driving through the city without a bag over my head. But I'm not a loser. Because, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what they wanted to be, is out there, being what we don't want to be, forty hours a week, for life. And the fact that I didn't put a gun in my mouth years ago - that little fact makes me a winner, baby.
-- Al Bundy, "Married with Children"
Just to mention a few.
