Frodo: "I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had ever happened."
Gandalf: "So do all who come to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All they have to decide is what to do with the time that is given them."
―from the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Rings
"Living in the past is a luxury none of us can afford. We must learn from it, but we cannot live there. It is impossible to plan for the now - the present is ever fleeting. The future is where we must live. The future is what we must plan for."
―excerpt from 24 terabyte data image extracted from Forerunner Terminal Network (found on the inside of the Halo 3 Original Soundtrack)
"When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. Characters are caricatures"
"Rich text editor. Now vandalizing your articles, so vandals don't have to"
―Ajax 013 after the Rich Text Editor screw up his article
Frodo: "I wish the ring had never come to me; I wish none of this had ever happened"
Gandalf: "So do all who come to see such times but that is not for them to decide; All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you"
―In the mines of Moria
"Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option"
―Spiderman
"Only heroes die. Villains and cowards are left to suffer"
―Adalric Cessius Brandl
"An invisible sign that only blind people can read. Those blind people try to explain it to the deaf people who think it's referring to their mentally absent friends"
―§yzygy, in response to myself stating that HF has an invisible sign calling stupid people and arguments to it
"[Society should] condemn a little more and understand a little less"
―British Prime Minister John Major
"Delete: it's divine wind shall rush through the site, cleansing the unworthy and sweeping up the faithful to glorious salvation"
―Me, told to ODST Joshie after he said I liked to delete things
Spartan-091: "*Makes vulgar noise* Silent Yet Deadly? Shouldn't that read "Silent But Deadly"? You know, the term for, um, flatulations uttered by octogenarians? Just sayin'..."
LOMI: "Ooops.... I forgot about that. Better change it."
— Me and Spartan-091 discussing the title of the USR ship Deathly Silence, originally called "Silent But Deadly"; note that even 091's suggestion was changed later
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