My Favorite Quotes
Here are some favorite quotes. I will continue adding to it. Enjoy!
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
-Orson Scott Card
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”
-Orson Scott Card”,
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you’re thirsty.
Gideon Wyeth:Why?
Ethan: Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
-Orson Scott Card
“Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it’s going”
-Orson Scott Card
“You’re a monster.”
“Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?”
“No, just a medal. The budget isn’t inexhaustable.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
-Orson Scott Card
“An enemy, Ender Wiggin,” whispered the old man. “I am your enemy, the first one you’ve ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it’s due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don’t have to do it often.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“You want to beat Peter?” she asked.
“No,” he answered.
“Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggin anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That’ll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, that’s how you win.”
“You don’t understand,” he said.
“Yes I do.”
“No you don’t. I don’t want to beat Peter.”
“Then what do you want?”
“I want him to love me.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“I’m crazy,” said Ender.”But I think I’m OK.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:
THE END OF THE WORLD
He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“You killed more people than anybody in history.”
“Be the best at whatever you do, that’s what my mother always told me.”
-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
“The most noble title any child can have,” Demosthenes wrote, “is Third.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“It will hurt.” said Petra. “But let’s make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”
-Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets
“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”
-Orson Scott Card
“I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, the growing part was always new, and I wondered, when the tale was through, which part was me, and which was you.”
-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
“And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.”
-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“I’m not myself…”
-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
“Till death ends all surprises.”
-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
“The road goes on without him now.”
-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
“We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoe: We live in a spaceship, dear.
-Wash and Zoe, Firefly
“Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.”
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Mal to Jayne: Well, my time of not taking you seriously is coming to a middle.
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
“Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ’em right back!”
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
“Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care
I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black
Tell em I ain’t coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
Have no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can’t take the sky from me.”
-Joss Whedon, Firefly
[Wash is at his station on the bridge, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]
Wash [as Stegosaurus]: Yes… yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it… This Land.
Wash [as Allosaurus]: I think we should call it… your grave!
Wash [as Stegosaurus]: Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Wash [as Allosaurus]: Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now DIE!
Wash [as Stegosaurus]: Oh no, God, oh dear God in heaven… ”
-Wash, Firefly
“Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
-Zoe, Firefly
Warrick: I know him. And I think he’s a psychotic low-life.
Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.”
-Sir Warrick and Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
“You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave.”
-Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
-River Tam and Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
“We’re lost. Lost in the woods.”
-River Tam, Firefly
“We’re going the wrong way!”
-Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
“‘Day’ is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It’s not applicable. [pauses] I didn’t get you anything.”
-River on birthdays, Firefly
“Two by two, hands of blue… two by two, hands of blue…”
-River Tam, Firefly
“My food is problematic.”
-River Tam, Firefly
“When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t crawl, when you can’t do that… you find someone to carry you.”
-Firefly
“It’s just an object. It doesn’t mean what you think.”
-River Tam, Firefly
“She understands. She doesn’t comprehend.”
-River Tam, Firefly
Mal: Am I dreamin’?
River/ Serenity: We all are.
-River Tam and Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
“Well, here I am.”
-Firefly
“Are you alive?”
-Number Six, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
“Nothing but the rain”
-Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
“Frak.”
-Battlestar Galactica (2004)
“I’m in shock. Look- I’ve got a blanket.”
-Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock (BBC)
Sherlock Holmes: Punch me in the face!
Dr. John Watson: Punch you?
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, punch me. In the face. Didn’t you hear me?
Dr. John Watson: I always hear “Punch me in the face.” when you’re speaking, but it’s usually subtext. ”
-Dr. Watson and Sherlock, Sherlock (BBC)
“Brainy’s the new sexy.”
-Irene Adler, Sherlock (BBC)
“I’m not dead. Let’s have dinner.”
-Irene Adler, Sherlock (BBC)
“Who are you?”
-Kosh, Babylon 5
“Nothing in the Verse can stop me.”
-Firefly
“I’m a leaf on the wind.”
-Wash, Serenity (Movie)
“I’m begging you, Prince Zuko! Its time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions: Who are you? and What do you want?”
-Uncle Iroh, Avatar:The Last Airbender
Yehovah said to Moshe, “Speak to Aharon and his sons, and tell them that this is how you are to bless the people of Isra’el: you are to say to them,
‘Y’varekh’kha Yehovah v’yishmerekha.
[May Yehovah bless you and keep you.]
Ya’er Yehovah panav eleikha vichunekka.
[May Yehovah make his face shine on you and show you his favor.]
Yissa Yehovah panav eleikha v’yasem l’kha shalom.
[May Yehovah lift up his face toward you and give you peace.]’
“In this way they are to put my name on the people of Isra’el, so that I will bless them.”
-Numbers 6: 22-27
“Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Yehovah Eloheinu, Yehovah echad [Hear and obey, Isra’el! Yehovah our God, Yehovah is one]; and you are to love Yehovah your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources. These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them on your hand as a sign, put them at the front of a headband around your forehead, and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates.
-Deuteronomy 6: 4-9
Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me. And anyone who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his own life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for my sake will find it.
-Matthew 10: 37-39
“To see the world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-Eternity in an Hour, William Blake
“If you love me, you will keep my commands; and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever. The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you.
-John 14: 15-17
“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, loving Yehovah your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land Yehovah swore he would give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.”
-Deuteronomy 30: 19-20
“I am Groot.”
-Groot, Gaurdians of the Galaxy
“Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are to fast. I would catch it.”
-Drax the Destroyer, Guardians of the Galaxy
“Sir. I’m gonna have to ask you exit the doughnut.”
-Nick Fury, Iron Man 2
“I’m with you till the end of the line.”
-Marvel Universe
Rocket: Why would you want to save the galaxy?
Peter Quill: Because I’m one of the idiots who live in it!
-Rocket Raccon and Peter Quill, Guardians of the Galaxy