Doesn't have to be Halo related but I'll do one just to start us off. Dammit... it's not within arm length... *gets up with a big sigh... walks to window and grabs book and starts scimming...*
"The Chief had nothing to say to that. It wasn't his job to make things suffer---he was just here to win battles. Whatever it took."
"I'm young and happy. I'll never die. I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story." From The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This quote just really struck me when I read the book. I don't know why, but it did.
Anything Holden ever said from Catcher in the Rye.
Fixed...he is my favorite character in literature, hands-down. As for a quote I can remember, the only one that strikes me is from Macbeth, which I ust finished reading for English:
"Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what false heart doth know."
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 remember'd; 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 accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. -Henry V
ave, Caesar, morituri te salutamus Hail, Caesar, we who are about to die salute you -Julius Caesar
As much as I currently despise The Great Gatsby for having to write this damn 5-page english paper on it at two in the morning, I do like the very last sentence of the book:
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"A spineless desire to get out from under responsibility is in our genes, I swear it is, and the only way we get anywhere in this world is by constantly fighting our natural inclination to be utterly irresponsible. Sometimes I wonder if that's what we got from the Devil when Eve listened to the serpent and ate the apple - the aversion to responsibility. Most evil has its roots there. Men steal and kill and lie and cheat because they feel no responsibility for others. Politicians want power, and they want acclaim when their policies succeed, but they seldom stand up and take the responsibility for failure. The world's full of people who want to tell you how to live your life, how to make heaven right here on earth, but when their ideas turn out half-baked, when it ends in Dachau or the Gulag... they turn their heads, avert their eyes, and pretend they had no responsibility for the slaughter." -From Dean Koontz's "Midnight"
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - 1984, which also happens to be the topic of my research paper!
"Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive."
The Dark Tower series Eddie: "All is quiet in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin in which the Spiders spin and the great circuits fall silent one by one..."
Roland: "Ka" Eddie:"Ka Ka"
The Wheel of Time series Moraine: "Sing of Manetheren, that would never bend knee to the Shadow. Sing of Manetheren, the sword that could not be broken"
Mat: "I don't want to be the bloody hero"
Mat: "It's time to toss the dice"
Elayne: "I've been thinking..." Nynaeve: "My lady has been thinking? Oh, my lady must be tired from such a feat..." (one of the few things she says that's entertaining)
Sam Spade: "When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere."
Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"I will not fear, fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings about total obliteration. I shall face my fear. I shall let it pass over and through me and when it is gone, only I will remain."
~Paul from Dune One of the few sayings that stuck in my mind with no trouble.
People do too read Louis. Unless they're retarded or dyslexic. I was dyslexic on the chem test, but she told me that 4 other people said the same thing to so its not like I'm too retarded.
