NationStates Jolt Archive

...made by YOU!

In your opinion, anyway..

Mine:
An eye for an eye makes it impossible to see the world. A tooth for a tooth makes it harder for us to speak to each other. A life for a life makes life not worth living.

Gimme some QUOTEAGE!

(to the phase "learn something new everyday") yeah but you seem to learn an awful lot in a day :p

yeah its not too good but I can't remember anything

No, seriously. An eye for an eye leaves two people without stereoscopic vision. No blindness involved at all.

No, seriously. An eye for an eye leaves two people without stereoscopic vision. No blindness involved at all.

But if Bob takes Fred's eye, then Fred can take Bob's eye. But Bob says that it's not fair nd takes Fred's other eye, and Fred gets PO'd and takes Bob's other eye.

See how it works?

But if Bob takes Fred's eye, then Fred can take Bob's eye. But Bob says that it's not fair nd takes Fred's other eye, and Fred gets PO'd and takes Bob's other eye.

See how it works?

The bolded is not a part of "an eye for an eye".

The bolded is not a part of "an eye for an eye".

My quote is based off of Ghandi's "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" quote. And life is not fair, so somebody's going to lose both eyes.

Stop nitpicking. :mad: :p

"Death solves all of man's problems; see no man, no problems." -Joseph Stalin

You'll kill me? Well, I'll just kill you right back!

My quote is based off of Ghandi's "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" quote. And life is not fair, so somebody's going to lose both eyes.

Stop nitpicking. :mad: :p

I disagreed with Ghandi too. Now, "one eye for two" makes the whole world blind, and eventually worse. It's arithmatic growth. But "an eye for an eye" is just that. 1 eye -> 1 eye. End of sequence. :p

...made by YOU!

In your opinion, anyway..
Arguing Religion on a thread is like peeing in your black pair of pants.

sure you get a warm feeling, but in the end, no one really notices and you end up feeling cold.

...made by YOU!

In your opinion, anyway..

Mine:
An eye for an eye makes it impossible to see the world. A tooth for a tooth makes it harder for us to speak to each other. A life for a life makes life not worth living.

Gimme some QUOTEAGE!

oh and being toothless just means the Straw Manufacturers win.

The best one I made is for my book, and is based off the we are our own worst enemies concept. In this book, there is a Mirror Universe, which EXACTLY matches our own, except its completly reveresed down to the very last detail. good is evil, evl is good, etc. etc. Well, the quote is:

"I have faced and defeated many monsters in my lifetime, but the greatest monster I have ever seen, is the one I see in the Mirror." -Rahegalhoff.

See, Rahegalhoff is a Paladin. He protects the weak and the innocent from the strong who would take advantage of them. He fights and opposes evil wherever it may be. But his Mirror opposite, is a brutal horrible man that takes pleasure in the harm, torture, and killing of others.

"Death solves all of man's problems; see no man, no problems." -Joseph Stalin

Stalin is apparently alive and well and posting on NSG. Doesn't really surprise me;)

You're acting like he died or something....

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use - Andaras Prime.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
-Voltaire

But if Bob takes Fred's eye, then Fred can take Bob's eye. But Bob says that it's not fair nd takes Fred's other eye,

Then that would be two eyes for an eye, wouldn't it?

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. But really, when was the last time you met a mean blind guy?

Then that would be two eyes for an eye, wouldn't it?

Ghandi never said life was fair, did he?

New Drakagonia;12585057']Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
-Voltaire

How did Voltaire know about American crap music 200 years before it came around!?!?! :eek:

I feel so sarmt. - Me

Ghandi never said life was fair, did he?

Ghandi also said "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Ghandi also said "Be the change you want to see in the world"

He also said, "Hey fucker! Quit'cher bellyachin'!"

Well, it's not like everything he said is famous.

Who am I to decide what is right for you? And in the same regards, who are you to decide what is right for me?

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotamy. - Anon

"Insanity is the best defense from reality ever invented." - me.

Every word that escapes my lips is profound.

"Existance is based on barriers. Break those barriers, and you have life." - Me

Every word that escapes my lips is profound.

I hope you're excluding that rant you went on about how great rap music is.

I hope you're excluding that rant you went on about how great rap music is.

Oh god, I want to read that for the pure sake of potential lulz.

Me:

"The line between a genius and a madman is as precise as the borders in a map".

No, seriously. An eye for an eye leaves two people without stereoscopic vision. No blindness involved at all.

The bolded is not a part of "an eye for an eye".

I disagreed with Ghandi too. Now, "one eye for two" makes the whole world blind, and eventually worse. It's arithmatic growth. But "an eye for an eye" is just that. 1 eye -> 1 eye. End of sequence. :p

Then that would be two eyes for an eye, wouldn't it?

You guys are playing semantics, and you know it. Quit pretending to be clever.

I hope you're excluding that rant you went on about how great rap music is.

Profundity is often lost on the shallow mind.

Profundity is often lost on the shallow mind.
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How profound.

"Praise the Lord and fuck the torpedoes."

- Gartref - (Battle of Bermuda Straits, 2004)

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How profound.

This is not a thread about rap music, and I will not defend it here.

For D&D people: "First you level up, then you level them."

This is not a thread about rap music, and I will not defend it here.

was that what it was? I thought UNITIHU was having a seazure on the keyboard... :p

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The more I see of people the more I like machines.

Sorry, I missed "Mind-reading at Long Distances of People You've Heard About On the Internet 101" .
-Kiryu-shi


Obviously, since it was sigged.

Sorry, I missed "Mind-reading at Long Distances of People You've Heard About On the Internet 101" .
-Kiryu-shi

Obviously, since it was sigged.

by NB

I submit for this thread a quote I posted earlier today

Corporation: n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use - Andaras Prime.dude, claiming other people's quotes as your own is not cool. That quote, in various forms, has been around for over 100 years.

by NB

Yes, yes, *hearts The Northern Baltic*

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -Isaac Asimov

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -Arthur C. Clarke

I keep a notebook in my bed for writing down things I think of at 4 AM (or whenever it is that I sleep). The top 3 of this month follow:

"There is no difference between a man who is on fire and one who is not on fire. Except for the obvious difference that one man is on fire."

"Religion is a joke, God is the punchline."

"Democracy is the process where by three men may kill two, two may kill one, but one may only kill himself."

"Socialism, when it is sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from Nazism."

"I am in favor of separation of church and state. I am also in favor of separation of business and state, separation of welfare and state, separation of education and state, separation of health care and state, and separation of entertainment and state. If the state would only separate itself from more facets of our lives, I believe we would be much better off."

"Democracy, while admittedly the best system we have, is not worthy of the esteem it is given. It is as if someone was going to rob your house, and you were given the choice of who that someone was. Certainly, it is better than having no choice at all, but it's not exactly the kind of arrangement that ought to be held up as something worth dying for."

Those are all mine, although they are to a greater or lesser degree derived from things said by people much smarter than I.

EDIT: My signature is my own handiwork as well, although it's not nearly as pithy as I wanted it to be.

"I don't see a god" - Juri Gagarin

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen

You guys are playing semantics, and you know it. Quit pretending to be clever.

It's not semantics. If someone wrongs you, then that person is equally wronged, that's it. It doesn't do anything to the whole world, unless three billion people took both eyes of the other three billion, the the other three billion compensated. "an eye for an eye" doesn't not imply the escalating sort of violence Ghandi probably intended.

"Generalizations don't generally apply to every general aspect of the world in general, generally speaking."

Quadruple-think! >_> <_< Also yes, that's mine.

It's not semantics. If someone wrongs you, then that person is equally wronged, that's it. It doesn't do anything to the whole world, unless three billion people took both eyes of the other three billion, the the other three billion compensated. "an eye for an eye" doesn't not imply the escalating sort of violence Ghandi probably intended.

Usually, the goal of "eye for an eye" is to hurt the aggressor so badly that they never try it again. You're not supposed to pull punches when you retaliate, you're supposed to take them down for good.

Here's a quote by me for all the dnd geeks out there. It does require a little background, however, so consider this situation. My group of players was fighting a particularly strange creature which acted as a sort of hive brain, a queen of an entire race of strange creatures which we encountered after venturing into a cave. This "Queen" exhibited many similar qualities of an Alien queen, in that some bodily fluids she secreted were acidic, or flammable, or something else which quite escapes my mind as this was quite a long time ago. However, one of the people in my party gets hit with some kind of spray from the mammary portion of this "Queen", and there was some kind of saving throw to be done, now in the rules we were using, since the creatures were the creation of one of the players, we weren't entirely certain which saving throw modifier to use, or what exactly the consequences would be. Several of the categories seemed to apply, like Death, and Breath Weapon (as in a dragon's breath).
So the player asks, "What do I save against?"
To which I quip, "Save versus breast weapon or die."

Usually, the goal of "eye for an eye" is to hurt the aggressor so badly that they never try it again. You're not supposed to pull punches when you retaliate, you're supposed to take them down for good.

Well that hardly sounds like an eye for an eye. It implies "let the punishment fit the crime", basically. Sure, they could retaliate under that banner, but that's clearly not what they're doing. I've no idea what you're 'supposed' to do when you retaliate, but this little proverb tells you to do 'whatever was done to you'.

Mad cows go hooning.

"Perfection is the infinity of opinion" - Myself

My favourite quote is

"You can't polish a turd" - a polite Northern term refering to pretentious people

"Life is like a game of Monopoly. I'm always the wheelbarrow." -Me.

"People are like Slinkies. They don't serve much purpose, but I always laugh when one of them falls down stairs." -unknown.

top part of LG sig and one by Patton

"Did you realize most amok-shooter used a Microsoft operating system and none of them a free one?" me in a German forum

"I have nothing against Windows - if I did I'd use it, ffs!"

"Wenn die Regierung dem Volk so sehr misstraut dass sie jeden Bürger unter Generalverdacht stellt, sollte sie schnellstens ein neues wählen"

The quote of mine in Kat's sig. The one about fucktards. That's good.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

After cracking my back, shoulders, knuckles and every other noisy joint in my body, a co-worker commented that with all the crackling and creaking I sounded like a bundle of old sticks.

I replied "are you calling me a faggot?"

"Trolls are like sex. First you want to keep going and going with them but eventually you get tired and it becomes painful." - Me.

Quoted by Boonytopia

Oh, see my sig, I guess . . .

edit to add: Pancake, I like your one about intelligence and smoking ;)

There is no life without death. There is no death without murder.

...what? Dark humor amuses me.

"That's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10."

- Mr. Wolf

Oh wait,

"I kind of like it when a lot of people die."

- Napalm and Silly putty

I've got one foot in my mouth and the other in the grave.

Oh, I have many.

edit to add: Pancake, I like your one about intelligence and smoking ;)

:D :D :D

"I don't see a god" - Juri Gagarin

Spurious.

The two directly under this, and any of these (http://despair.com/viewall.html)

Do, or do not. There is no try. -yoda

and...

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter! -yoda

Note to self: look twice before crossing NSG street

after being told that i suck at grammar by my English teacher i put
1 R0xx0r A7 73h La2g 0ph 3v1l!!!1shift+1!
on the back of my next paper

Quoting yourself is textual masturbation.

That's not a quote. It really is.

"Kids, the only reason you should ever take drugs is because Victor Coleman makes them sound cool."

Liberals have ethics. Conservatives have morals.

Just because it got wings doesn't make it an angel.

(Yes, I know the grammar in the quote isn't correct. But it sounds sassier this way.)

Yeah, I keep hearing how about when I was a kid, that I said "You kicka me I kicka you." I don't have the foggiest why I'd say that.

Mabye I was watching a gangster film or something. Bottom line; I Keep HEARING IT TO THIS DAY!

"It may be Inevitable, or Popular, or Commonplace; but that does not make it Right."

The weird capitalisation is because that's the way I said it. And it looks boring without it.

"Human beings are born with the ability to reason; they spend the first eighteen years learning how to use it, and the rest of their lives forgetting as much as they can."

Me and probably a bunch of other people, although I doubt they'd word it as well. ;-)

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

James Madison, but I still like it enough to claim it as my own. Besides, someone needs to repeat it in this age of Excessive Government vs. No Government.

Ok so technically its a monologue, not just a quote. Also its not very profound, but i just couldnt help myself.

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V."

V for Vandetta~

Quoting yourself is textual masturbation.

That's not a quote. It really is.

And now, it is a quote. Was it good for you, too? ;)

I Hope to God Mel Gibson isn't lost on you all.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What knockers.
Inga: Oh, thank you doctor.
--
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged.
Inga: His veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly.
Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying.
Inga: Voof.
Igor: He's going to be very popular.
--
Robin Hood: Rabbi, you seem to be on the side of good. Will you come and share with us some of your wisdom, some of your council, and perhaps... some of your wine?
Rabbi Tuckman: Wisdom and council, that's easy. But this is sacrimental wine! It's only used to bless things.
Merry Men: Awwwww...
Rabbi Tuckman: [pauses] Wait a minute! There's things here! There's rocks, there's trees, there's birds, there's squirrels. Come on, we'll bless them all until we get vashnigyered
--
Robin Hood: It is the key to the greatest treasure in all the land!
--
Jonathan Harker: Oh... my... GOD! There's so much blood!
Van Helsing: She just ate! Hit her again!
Jonathan Harker: Oh no... i can't...
Van Helsing: How much blood can she have left?
--
Mademoiselle Rimbaud: Your majesty, I was raised in a convent. I do not indulge in the pleasures of the flesh.
King Louis XVI: What do you mean you don't do it? Of course you do it. We all do it. We love to do it. I just did it and I'm ready to do it again.
--
Empress Nympho: Virgins, put on your "no entry" signs! We are about to confront... guys!
--
Comicus: The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation - but I hear that that's coming quickly.

"Trolls are like sex. First you want to keep going and going with them but eventually you get tired and it becomes painful." - Me.

Quoted by Boonytopia

It's still there too! :)

"They say that we use only 10% of our brains.
I say that the remaining 90% is for common sense."

"Motherhood is a matter of fact; fatherhood is a matter of faith."

" This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." -Henry V

Only thing Shakespeare wrote that I liked.

These two:

"NationStates is like Hotel California: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave..."

and

"Freedom is on the march - nobody said it wouldn't march on a corpse-paved road... :("

my favourite :

Smile they said, things could be worse............. so I did........ and they were

I Hope to God Mel Gibson isn't lost on you all.

Mel Brooks != Mel Gibson.

Best serious quote I've made: "No one can tell another what to do. There are simply things one must do, and things one cannot do. The space between is smaller than most people believe."

Best sarcastic quote, from a thread entitled "Video games kill people": "Video games don't kill people. Stupidity kills people."

:p

Noob, my desert eagle .50 Action Express will go right though you stupid body armor!.

i think i've only been sigged once on here and it was only a throwaway comment. i don't really remember any good quotes of my own, not really one to wax philosophical. i am fond of quoting a couple of lines from 'decent days and nights' by the futureheads, specifically "if the least you can do is show some restraint, then the most you can do is get carried away". i try to live by that sentiment although i'm not very good at it.

"Oh no Bob! Now there is nothing left of our pies except for salty seamen floating on the water! .... But it was worth it just to say that!" - Weebl (Weebl and Bob Christmas #4)

"I beleive it has something to do with free will..." - God when asked why he made good and evil in 'Time Bandits'

"Down with this sort of thing!"
-Father Ted

"Occupy! Resist! Produce!"
-Slogan of the recuperated business movement in Argentina

"Contrary to popular belief, what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. ...You have herpes."
-Cyanide and Happiness

"Let's promenade down the boulevards with terrific pride and light in our eyes,
Twelve feet tall and staggering,
Sick with joy with the angels there and light in our eyes.
Brothers and sisters, hope still waits in the wings like a bitter spinster
Impatient, lonely and shivering, waiting to build her glorious fires!"
-A Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band, Built then burnt (hurrah! Hurrah!)

"It's not as if I'm going to rape him... I could rape him... I'm not going to rape him."
-Jez, Peep Show

"We have spilled a sea of blood for the fraternity and unity of our people. We are not going to allow anyone to interfere, to gnaw form the inside, to break apart this brotherhood and unity."
-Josip Broz Tito

"...And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, Ground!"
-A whale

All right, so it's a mixed bag, but at least I didn't quote any Transformers. For a time, I considered sparing your wretched litt... no, stop it!

This happened one of the few times that I was 2nd chair on a trial matter.

Opposing counsel was a right prick and insisted on objecting to EVERYTHING, even when he had absolutly no standing to do so. It was really starting to grate on me.

Finally, in response to a question, responds with "objection, that is totally irrelevant".

At which point I, as 2nd chair, sitting close enough for him to hear, mumbled "yes, that is an objection that is totally irrelevant."

He got PISSED.