Knight in Sour Armor/Quotes
You have to be pretty goddamn tough to be an optimist, and you have to be an asshole to stay completely apathetic. Find the middle ground. It's the best you can do. —/tg/
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Sometimes cynicism is the last refuge of the idealist. —L.E. Modesitt, Jr., The Ethos Effect
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Woman in alley: Thank you! Thank you! That thing was going to kill me! —Angel, "Soul Purpose"
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What if I told you it doesn't help? What would you do if you found out that none of it matters? That it's all controlled by forces more powerful and uncaring than we can conceive and they will never let it get better down here? What would you do? —Gunn, Angel
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John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy. |
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. —The Paradoxical Commandments, words for the Knight in Sour Armor to live by
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I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, "Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?" So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. —Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
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Liara: So tell me, Shepard, what are you fighting for? |
I'm no hero. Never was, never will be. Just an old killer, hired to do some wet-work. —Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
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Do not be deceived, Wormwood. [[[Satan]]'s] cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy [[[God]]]'s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. —The Demon Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters
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The future is an inherently good thing. And we move into it one winter at a time. Things get better one winter at a time. If you're going to celebrate anything, then have a drink on this: The world is, generally and on balance, a better place to live this year than it was last year. —Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan
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Hey! Mother Theresa! I was gonna do it anyway. I just hate being lectured. —Gene Ryack, Air America
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