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Grosses vagues

Vagues scelerates / Rogue waves

The following Images were taken by Capt. George Ianiev (Second Mate at the time) on February 13th, 1987 during an eastbound passage from Tampa, Florida to Ghent, Belgium.

 

 Damage caused by freak waves :

Atlas Pride 250000T 1991

Energy Endurance 200000T 1981

Energy Endurance / closer view

World Horizon

Citations / Quotes

last update : 17/05/2015


[fr] J'ai vu tant de choses que vous ne pourriez pas croire.
De grands navires en feu surgissant de l'épaule d'Orion.
J'ai vu des rayons fabuleux, des rayons C
briller dans l'ombre de la porte de Tannhäuser.
Tous ces moments se perdront dans l'oubli
comme les larmes dans la pluie.

[en] I've… seen things you people wouldn't believe…
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those… moments… will be lost in time, like tears… in… rain. Time… to die…
-Blade Runner

[en] What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
-Bukowski

[en] I don't hate people, I just feel better when they aren't around.
-Bukowski

[en] I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem sort itself out.
-anonymous

[en] When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.
-anonymous

[fr] Il n'y a pas de problème qui résiste indéfiniment à une absence de solution.
-anonyme

[fr] A vaincre sans baril, on triomphe sans boire.
-anonyme

[fr] Je me suis engagé dans la marine le jour où mon père m'a appris que j'étais sur terre pour travailler.
-anonyme

[en] You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
-Dean Martin

[fr] Le chien, le meilleur ami de l'homme ... ca aurait pas dut etre la femme plutot ?!
-mig

[fr] La menace vaut mieux que l'exécution.
-Aaron Nimzowitsch

[fr] Comment voulez-vous qu'une fille normale ait envie de sortir avec un type qui réfléchit pendant plus de deux heures avant d'ébaucher le plus petit geste du bout des doigts ?
-Dick Cavett (expliquant pourquoi Robert Fischer n'arrivait pas à se marier)

[fr] Toutes choses étant égales, c'est la conviction qui gagne. Alliée à une volonté de vaincre, elle sert de détonateur, suscite des idées, disperse les doutes, et aide à penser clairement.
-Robert Fischer

[fr] Le moment que je préfère le plus dans une rencontre, c'est celui où je sens que la personnalité de l'adversaire se brise.
-Robert Fischer

[fr] Voyant la fragilite de leurs coquilles les limaces on quitte cette derniere pour miser sur la rapidite de fuite.
Tout n'est pas encore au point..
-dtc

[en] We neither care about up there or down there, and the whole world may curse or hail us whatever it please it to do.
-

[en] Luna Schlosser: Oh, I see. You don't believe in science, and you also don't believe that political systems work, and you don't believe in God, huh?
Miles Monroe: Right.
Luna Schlosser: So then, what do you believe in?
Miles Monroe: Sex and death
-Woody Allen

[fr] Quand ni l'alcool ni la drogue n'arrivent a rendre les gens interessants c'est qu'on a vraiment affaire a des cons.
-mig

[en] The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water—Let the motherfucker burn!
Burn, motherfucker, burn!
-

[fr] Ce n'est pas que cela soit interdit, mais plutot qu'il est interdit de se faire prendre..
-mig

[en] None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-Goethe

[en] Downloading isn’t stealing. If I shoplift an album from my local record store, no one else can buy it. But when I download a song, no one loses it and another person gets it. There’s no ethical problem.
-Aaron Swartz

[en] The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.'"
-Paul Muad'dib

[fr] Pourtant il y avait une morale a tout cela. Elle vous apparaitra lorsque vous ferez un tour, la nuit, dans une banlieue. Dans chaque maison, des deux cotes de la chaussee, brille la lampe doree du living-room ou l'ecran de television met une tache bleutee. Chaque famille regarde religieusement le meme spectacle. Personne ne parle. Les cours sont silencieuses. Seuls quelques chiens aboient, etonnes d'entendre les pas d'un homme, etrangement depourvu de roues. Alors vous comprendrez ce que je veux dire si vous constatez que tous les hommes commencent a penser la meme chose au meme moment et que les Fous du Zen sont retournes a la poussiere, avec un dernier rire sur leurs levres mortes.
-Kerouac

[fr] A 15ans j'avais engendre et tue mon homme.
-Mahbub Ali

[fr] Tous ces gens, dit Japhy, ont des cabinets de ceramique blanche, ou ils chient aussi salement que les ours dans la montagne. Mais comme toute leur merde est emportee dans les egouts dument controles, personne n'y pense plus ou se rapelle que le fait de chier ait quelque chose avoir avec la merde et la puanteur et toute la deguelasserie du monde. Ils passent leur temps a se laver les mains avec des savons cremeux qu'ils revent de devorer en secret dans leur salle de bains.
-Kerouac

[en] Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
-Albert Einstein

[en] We sometimes think we want to disappear but all we really want is to be found.
-Anonymous

[en] If you fall, I'll be there.
-The floor

[en] Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein

[en] It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-Seneca

Sarah Conor ?
-T-800

[fr] Être adulte, c'est être seul.
-Jean Rostand

[fr] Un intellectuel assis va moins loin qu'un con qui marche.
-Michel Audiard

[fr] L'enfer, c'est les autres
-Sartre

[fr] Il est con l'ennemi, il croit que c'est nous alors que c'est lui.
-Desproges

[fr] J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit.
-Michel Audiard

root@universe:~# uptime
18:35:59 13.7 billion years up, 12e45 users load average: 5343527.0 3533.2 48633.3
-root@universe:~#

[en] We had both taken too many steps away from the country that had borne us to belong anywhere with ease.
-John le Carre

[en] Luck's just another word for destiny...either you make your own or you're screwed.
-John le Carre

[en] They say drinkin' and smokin' kill neurons ... I prefer to see it like a herd bein' hunt down by a wild lion named pot or rhum .. the lion will first attack the slower and the older neurons thus increasing average speed of the herd...
so keep on the booze and the pot .. it might not make you smarter .. but the herd of your stoned neurons will run faster ... the direction they're running to ? Who cares ?!
-mig

[en] There are three kinds of men: the ones that learn by reading; the ones who learn by observation; and the ones that have to pee on the electric fence.
-Will Rodgers

[en] A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
-John le Carre

[en] Any fool can know. The point is to understand
-Albert Einstein

[en] If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill

[en] Most people have to act the roles given to them. Then again, most of them haven't even noticed they're acting.
-Delita Hyral

[en] The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-Albert Einstein

[en] Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it's probably shit.
-anonymous

[en] Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.
-Henry Rollins

[en] You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill

[fr] C'est quand on regarde au loin que l'on finit par marcher dans une merde de chien.
-mig

[fr] Les lois sont de belles filles que chacun baise a sa maniere.
-mig

[fr] Ils disent que jesus est mort pour nos peches...ca serait dommage qu'il soit mort pour rien..
-mig

[en] Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
-Martin H. Fischer

[en] Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-Robert Heinlein

[en] Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
-Lillian Dickson

[fr] Celui qui sait se satisfaire aura toujours le nécessaire.
-Lao-Tseu

[fr] Ceux qui savent ne parlent pas, ceux qui parlent ne savent pas. Le sage enseigne par ses actes, non par ses paroles.
-Lao-Tseu

[fr] L'expérience est une bougie qui n'éclaire que celui qui la porte.
-Confucius

[fr] Un nombre infini de singes tapant continuellement sur une machine à écrire ont une probabilité certaine de réécrire l'intégrale de Shakespeare.
-anonyme

[en] The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain

[fr] Si on enfermait les cons dans les placards, y'aurait pas assez d'monde pour fermer les portes !
-anonyme

[fr] Le manque quasi absolu de capacite intelectuelle est je crois un prerequis au bonheur.
-mig

[en] Exercise daily. Eat wisely. Die anyway.
-anonymous

[en] The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world, and the pessimist fears that this is true.
-James Branch Cabell

[en] I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
-Jack Kerouac

[fr] A la fin tout tourne mal; si ça semble s'arranger, c'est que ce n'est pas encore la fin.
-Murphy

[fr] Le travail d’équipe est fondamental, ça donne à l’ennemi d’autres cibles que vous.
-anonyme

[fr] Je croque la vie a pleine dent... cette salope !
-anonyme

[fr] Mieux vaut avoir des ennemis que des amis, les ennemis eux au moins sont fidèles.
-Ciceron

[fr] Apprenez par les erreurs des autres. Vous ne vivrez pas assez longtemps pour toutes les faire vous-même.
-anonyme

[fr] Est ce que le trou du cul du monde est poilu ?
-anonyme

[fr] Si le travail c'est la santé,
Donnez le mien à quelqun de malade.
-Aerendir

[en] An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-Mohandas Gandhi

[en] True morality consists, not in following the beaten track, but
in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly
following it.
-Mohandas Gandhi

[en] I think I would rather die than live to be at an age where I no longer have any control over my bowels.
-anonymous

[en] The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
-Charles Bukowski

[en] One day, death and I will meet.
Sometimes, this thought keeps death up at night.
-anonymous

[fr] La mort de Socrate pèse encore sur le genre humain.
-Gustave Flaubert

[fr / gr] Ne dérange pas mes cercles. / Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε.
-Archimede

[fr] Exiger que la justice soit juste est une idée d'anarchiste.
-Anatole France

[fr] La civilisation, au vrai sens du terme, ne consiste pas à multiplier les besoins, mais à les limiter volontairement. C'est le seul moyen pour connaître le vrai bonheur et nous rendre plus disponible aux autres [...] Il faut un minimum de bien-être et de confort ; mais, passé cette limite, ce qui devait nous aider devient une source de gêne. Vouloir créer un nombre illimité de besoins pour avoir ensuite à les satisfaire n'est que poursuivre du vent. Ce faux idéal n'est qu'un traquenard.
-Mahatma Gandhi

[fr] Je souligne toujours l’écart entre légalité et légitimité. Je considère la légitimité des valeurs plus importante que la légalité d’un État. Nous avons le devoir de mettre en cause, en tant que citoyens, la légalité d’un gouvernement. Nous devons être respectueux de la démocratie, mais quand quelque chose nous apparaît non légitime, même si c’est légal, il nous appartient de protester, de nous indigner et de désobéir.
-Stéphane Hessel

[fr] L'endoctrinement n'est nullement incompatible avec la démocratie. Il est plutôt, comme certains l'ont remarqué, son essence même. C'est que, dans un Etat militaire, ce que les gens pensent importe peu. Une matraque est là pour les contrôler. Si l'Etat perd son bâton et si la force n'opère plus et si le peuple lève la voix, alors apparaît ce problème. Les gens deviennent si arrogants qu'ils refusent l'autorité civile. Il faut alors contrôler leurs pensées. Pour se faire, on a recours à la propagande, à la fabrication du consensus d'illusions nécessaires. La propagande est aux démocraties ce que la violence est aux dictatures.
-Noam Chomsky

[fr] La liberté ne peut être que toute la liberté ; un morceau de liberté n'est pas la liberté.
-Max Stirner

[fr] La politique, en tant que moteur de l'Etat-nation, n'existe plus. Elle sert seulement à gérer l'économie, et les hommes politiques ne sont plus que des gestionnaires d'entreprise. Les nouveaux maîtres du monde n'ont pas besoin de gouverner directement. Les gouvernements nationaux se chargent d'administrer les affaires pour leur compte. Le nouvel ordre, c'est l'unification du monde en un unique marché. Les Etats ne sont que des entreprises avec des gérants en guise de gouvernements, et les nouvelles alliances régionales ressemblent davantage à une fusion commerciale qu'à une fédération politique.
-Sous-commandant Marcos

[fr] L'un des mensonges néolibéraux consiste à dire que la croissance économique des entreprises produit une meilleure répartition de la richesse et de l'emploi. C'est faux. De même que l'accroissement du pouvoir d'un roi n'a pas pour effet un accroissement du pouvoir de ses sujets (c'est plutôt le contraire, l'absolutisme du capital financier n'améliore pas la répartition des richesses et ne crée pas de travail.
-Sous-commandant Marcos

[fr] Dans le cabaret de la globalisation, l'Etat se livre à un strip-tease au terme duquel il ne conserve que le minimum indispensable : sa force de répression. Sa base matérielle détruite, sa souveraineté et son indépendance annulées, sa classe politique effacée, l'Etat-nation devient un simple appareil de sécurité au service des méga-entreprises. Au lieu d'orienter l'investissement public vers la dépense sociale, il préfère améliorer les équipements qui lui permettent de contrôler plus efficacement la société.
-Sous-commandant Marcos

[fr] Les marchés financiers n'ont que faire de la couleur politique des dirigeants des pays : ce qui compte, à leurs yeux, c'est le respect du programme économique. Les critères financiers s'imposent à tous. Les maîtres du monde peuvent tolérer l'existence d'un gouvernement de gauche, à condition que celui-ci n'adopte aucune mesure pouvant nuire aux intérêts des marchés. Ils n'accepteront jamais une politique de rupture avec le modèle dominant.
-Sous-commandant Marcos

[fr] Pour qu'on nous voie, nous nous sommes masqués le visage ; pour qu'on nous donne un nom, nous avons pris l'anonymat ; pour avoir un avenir, nous avons mis notre présent en jeu ; et pour vivre, nous sommes morts.
-Des indiens du chiapas

[en] In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
-anonymous

[en] In the long run, all solutions are temporary, so go ahead and use duct tape.
-anonymous

[en] I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
-Frank Sinatra

[en] I drink to make other people interesting.
-George Jean Nathan

[fr] Il ne faut pas prendre les gens pour des cons, mais il ne faut pas oublier qu'ils le sont.
-Les Inconnus

[fr] Quand les maîtres cesseront d'enseigner, les élèves pourront enfin apprendre.
-Montesquieu

[fr] En temps de paix, les pauvres travaillent pour les riches à la sueur de leur front.
En temps de guerre, les pauvres remplacent les riches... Au front également !
-Pierre Desprosges

[fr] Si l'on arrete le vin, les femmes, et le tabac on ne rallonge pas sa vie .. par contre elle semble plus longue.
-anonyme

[en] Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.
—Freewheelin' Franklin

[en] most people are fools
most authority is malignant
God does not exist
everything is wrong
-Ted Nelson

[fr] Dieu a partagé : il a donné la nourriture aux riches et l'appétit aux pauvres.
-anonyme

[fr] un merci n'a jamais étanché une soif...
-anonyme

[fr] L'amour ne serait pas aveugle, si le braille n avait pas tant d'atouts !
-anonyme

[en] I say let me never be complete. I say let me never be content. I say deliver me from Swedish furniture. I say deliver me from clever art. I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth. I say you have to give up. I say evolve and let the chips fall where they may.
-Tyler Durden

[fr] La civilisation est quelque chose d'imposé à une majorité récalcitrante par une minorité qui a compris comment s'approprier les moyens de puissance et de coercition.
-Sigmund Freud

[en] There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

[en] Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason.

[en] There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.

[en] All I ask is for a chance to prove that money can't buy happiness.

[en] It's best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.

[en] I may not agree with what you say, but I respect your right to be punished for it.

[en] Survival: The less you stand out, the longer you'll last.

[en] If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

[en] For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.

[en] Teach every child you meet the importance of forgiveness. It's our only hope of
surviving their wrath once they realize just how badly we've screwed things up for them.

[fr] Les voyages sont la partie frivole de la vie des
gens sérieux et la partie sérieuse des gens frivoles.
-Sophie Swetchine

[es] Los objetos fueron hechos para ser usados.
Las personas fueron hechas para ser amadas.
El mundo va mal porque se usan las personas y se aman los objetos.
-anonimo

[en] There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
-Ali bin Abu-Talib

[fr] Tous les basques iront au ciel: le diable lui meme n'entend rien a ce qu'ils disent.
-anonymous

[en] For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to
(a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
-Terry Pratchett

[en] It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us.
If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be.
I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us.
It's Them that do the bad things.
-Terry Pratchett

[en] I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."
-Bijaz to Hayt

[en] I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
-The Preacher

[fr] C'est seulement a la fin de la foire que l'on compte les bouses.
-anonymous

[en] It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
-Charles darwin

[en] To stay awake all night adds another day to your life.
-Stilgar

[en] In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
-Charles darwin

[en] What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger."
-Leto and Siona

[en] The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly.
-Dune

[en] Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
-Pardot Kyne

[en] You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
-Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

[en] Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
-Villager proverb

[en] Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
-John Le Carre

[en] People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves.
If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
-John Le Carre

[en] The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents,
 however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
-John Le Carre

[fr] Quand on tire on raconte pas sa vie.
-Tuco

[fr] Je suis a la recherche d'une moitie de cigare plantee dans la bouche d'un grand fils de chienne.
-Tuco

[fr] Le rouge c'est à babord et le verre c'est à ras bord.
-anonymous

[fr] Ils ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genou.
-Etienne de La Boétie

[en] God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
-Paul Valery

[en] Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

[fr] Tout est fait pour que chez le consommateur l'acte d'achat soit déconnecté de ses réelles conséquences humaines, environnementales et sociales. Pour jouir et gaspiller sans honte, il faut cacher les véritables coûts humains des produits, les lieux et modes de production, les impacts sociaux, etc.
-François Brune

[fr] Affirmez que vous êtes anarchiste et presque immanquablement on vous assimilera à un nihiliste, à un partisan du chaos voire à un terroriste. Or, il faut bien le dire : rien n'est plus faux que ce contre-sens qui résulte de décennies de confusion savamment entretenue autour de l'idée d'anarchisme. En première approximation, disons que l'anarchisme est une théorie politique au coeur vibrant de laquelle loge l'idée d'antiautoritarisme, c'est-à-dire le refus conscient et raisonné de toute forme illégitime d'autorité et de pouvoir. Une vieille dame ayant combattu lors de la Guerre d'Espagne disait le plus simplement du monde : "Je suis anarchiste : c'est que je n'aime ni recevoir, ni donner des ordres." On le devine : cette idée est impardonnable, cet idéal inadmissible pour tous les pouvoirs. On ne l'a donc ni pardonné ni admis.
-Normand Baillargeon

[en] Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin

[fr] Les premiers violents, les provocateurs de toute violence, c'est vous. Quand le soir, dans vos belles maisons, vous allez embrasser vos petits enfants, avec votre bonne conscience, au regard de Dieu, vous avez probablement plus de sang, sur vos mains d'inconscient, que n'en aura jamais le désespéré qui a pris des armes pour essayer de sortir de son désespoir.
-L'abbé Pierre

[fr] Publicite : tu appelleras liberte de realiser ton desir ta soumission a ceux qui te l'ont inspire.
-Francois Brune

[fr] Qui avale une noix de coco fait confiance a son anus.
-anonymous

[en] You should cross the river before insulting the crocodile.
-anonymous

[en] You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
-Brick Top (snatch)

[fr] C'est quant le chat est repu qu'il dit que le cul de la souris pue.
-Professeur Choron

[fr] Mieux vaut souffir de la solitude que d'être accompagné par deux gendarmes.
-Professeur Choron

[en] Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!
-Fight club

[en] This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
-Tyler Durden

[en] Listen to me . . . you have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you.
-Tyler Durden

[en] God damn it! An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables: slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing car and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man--no purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . . . but we won't.
-Tyler Durden

[en] Richard Chesler: Is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me. Make a managerial decision. You find this, what would you do?
Narrator: Well, I've got to tell you. I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that is dangerous. And, this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap and then stalk from office to office with an Armilite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semiautomatic weapon: pumping round after round into colleagues and coworkers. This might be someone you've known for years . . . someone very, very close to you.
-Fight club

[en] We're a generation of men raised by women.
-Tyler Durden

[en] On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
-Tyler Durden

[en] For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
-Charles Bukowski

[en] I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life.
 Number 1: Cover for me.
 Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss!
 Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
-Matt Groening, The Simpsons

[en] I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
-Matt Groening, The Simpsons

[en] Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
-Matt Groening, The Simpsons

[fr] Que les puces de mille chiens galeux infestent le trou du cul de vos ennemis et que leurs bras soient trop courts pour qu'ils puissent se gratter.
-anonymous

[en] I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.
-Bukowski

[en] Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
-Bukowski

[en] Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies.
-anonymous

[en] What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[en] Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.
-anonymous

[en] Midnight bugs taste best.
-anonymous

[en] Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
-anonymous

[en] Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
-anonymous

[en] I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
-anonymous

[en] When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave.
-anonymous

[en] Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection.
-Author Unknown

[en] Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
-anonymous

[en] War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
-Bertrand Russell

[fr] Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.
-A. Dumas

[fr] Pour être heureux, l'essentiel est de savoir ce dont il ne faut pas tenir compte.
-anonymous

[en] Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy
shit . . . what a ride!"
-anonymous

[en] Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

[en] When I die, I want to go quietly, in my sleep; like my grandfather.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
-anonymous

[en] Not all who wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

[en] I'm not what you call a civilized man. I am finished with society for reasons I alone can appreciate. I don't obey its laws, and I suggest you never again refer to them again in my presence!
-anonymous

[en] In all systems, as complexity approaches infinity, mean time between failures drops to zero.
-Stephen Streib

[fr] "Les lois sont faites avant tout pour ceux qui détiennent le pouvoir ou l’argent. sous couvert de démocratie et de grandes phrases, les lois permettent aux puissants de contrôler les autres."
-Jim Jarmusch

[en] Time is a blank page, your life being the ink, the pen your will,
now what sort of book will you be able to write ?
-mig

[en] Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-Laurence J. Peter

[en] All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
-anonymous

[en] One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
-anonymous

[fr] Celui que rien n'enrôle et qu'une impulsive nature guide seule, le passionnel complexe, le hors-la-loi, le hors-d'école, l'isolé chercheur d'au-delà.
-L'Endehors

[en] Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies
-Thomas Jefferson

[en] Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[en] Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-Aristotle

[en] All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-Aristotle

[en] No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann

[en] I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor … and surviving.
-Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

[en] Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
-anonymous

[en] If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
-Henry David Thoreau

[en] Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?
-Henry David Thoreau

[en] Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.
-Henry David Thoreau

[en] Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
-Jack London

[en] Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau

[en] If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
-Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

[en] I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise.
-Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

[en] Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
-Sir Winston Churchill

[en] You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the Devil bite your ass.
-Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

[en] You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
-The Man with No Name (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

[en] There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
-Richard Feynman

[en] You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
-Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

[en] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-Anatole France

[en] Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
-Russell Baker

[en] Life is like a roll of toilet paper,The closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
-anonymous

[en] If you can't convince them, confuse them
-anonymous

[en] The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-Confucius

[en] Copers are barstuds
-anonymous

[en] To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-Anatole France

[en] If vote could change anything it would be forbidden.
-anarchist saying

They say the crisis is making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I can't see how that's a crisis.
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They say 3 million people are looking for a job. False: all they really need is money.
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Always remember that while the Gestapo had means to make you talk, our politicians have means to keep us quiet.
.
I don't mean that all cops are intelligent - that would be too gross a generalization.
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I'll quit politics when politicians quit comedy - they steal my job, I steal theirs.
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If there were a tax on stupidity, the government would be self-financing.
.
-Coluche

[en] Property is theft!
-Proudhon

[en] The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
-Mark Twain

[en] The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
-Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom

[en] All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
-Baltasar Gracian

[en] Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
-Andy Gibb

[en] Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
-Thomas Neill

[en] There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
-Norman Mailer

[en] Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
-Ellen DeGeneres

[en] When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-Brendan Behan

[en] I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
-George Burns

[en] Mr. Pink: You kill anybody?
Mr. White: A few cops.
Mr. Pink: No real people?
Mr. White: Just cops.
-Reservoir Dogs

[en] To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-Gustave Flaubert

[en] I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
-Jack Handey

[en] Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
-John Le Carre

[en] In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
-John Le Carre

[en] Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
-John le Carre

[en] Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
-John Le Carre

[en] You should have died when I killed you.
-John le Carre

[en] Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
-Philip K. Dick

[en] When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
-Philip K. Dick

[en] I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
-Mark Twain

[en] I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
-Mark Twain

[en] Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
-Ellen Goodman

[en] You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
-Al Capone

[en] Humans need fantasy to be humans. To be the place where the fallen angel meets the rising ape.
-Discworld's DEATH

[en] Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through with the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act as if there were some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
-Discworld's DEATH

[en] I am Death, not taxes. I come only once.
-Discworld's DEATH

[en] Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-Alfred E. Newman

[en] Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein

[en] Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
-Jane Wagner

[en] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
-Mark Twain (All above)

[en] You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
-Cecil Baxter

[en] Gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[en] Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
-Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[en] Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
-Terry Pratchett, Discworld

[en] It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
-Terry Pratchett

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
-Unknown

[en] Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
-Arnold Lobel

[en] No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
-William Jennings Bryan

[en] All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
-Frank Herbert

[en] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-Rick Cook

[en] Even the devil pray.
-Dad

[en] I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
-Groucho Marx

[en] He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[en] Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-Carl Zwanzig

[es] Puedo hablar de nuestros muertos ? Despues de todo, ellos son quienes la hicieron posible. Puede alguien decir que nosotros estamos porques ellos no estan. Esta eso permitido ? Yo tengo un hermano muerto Hay alguien entre ustedes que no tenga un hermano muerto ? Yo tengo un hermano muerto. Murio de un balazo en la cabeza. Fue antes del amanecer del primero de enero de 1994. Mucho antes del amanecer la bala que le disparon. Mucho antes del amanecer, la muerte que beso la frente de mi hermano. Mi hermano acostumbraba reir mucho, pero ahora ya no rie. No podia tener a mi hermano guardado en el bolsillo per si puede garda ahi la bala que lo mato. Otro dia antes del amanecer, le pregunte a la bala de donde habia venido y me contesto que del fusil de un soldado del gobierno de una persona poderosa, que servia a otra persona poderosa quien a su vez servia a otra persona poderosa quien servia a otra persona poderosa en todas partes.
La bala que mato a mi hermano no tiene nacionalidad. La lucha que hay que librar para mantener nuestros hermanos junto a nosotros en vez de guardar la balas que lo matan tampoco tiene nacionalidad. Por eso, nosotros los zapatistas tenemos muchos bolsillos grandes en los uniformes y no para guardar balas, para guardar hermanos.
-subcomandante insurgente Marcos

[en] I do not think that the state ought to have the right to determine historical truth and to punish people who deviate from that truth. I'm not willing to give the state that right [...]. If you believe in freedom of speech you believe in freedom of
speech for views you don't like. Göbbels was in favour of freedom of speech for views he liked.. so was Stalin. [...] If you are in favour of freedom of speech, that means you are in favour of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise - otherwise you're not in favour of freedom of speech.
-Noam Chomsky

[en] The point is that you have to work. And that's why the propaganda system is so successful. Very few people are going to have the time or the energy or the commitment to carry out the constant battle that's required to get outside of
Lehrer, or Dan Rather, or somebody like that. The easy thing to do, you know, you come home from work, you're tired, you had a busy day, you're not going to spend the evening carrying out a research project. So you turn on the tube,
you say it's probably right, or you look at the headlines in the paper, and then you're watching sports or something. That's basically the way the system of indoctrination works. Sure the other stuff is there, but you're going to work to find it.
-Noam Chomsky

[en] Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
-John le Carre

[en] Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.
-Albert Einstein

[en] It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-William G. McAdoo

[en] I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-Garrison Keillor

[en] The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[en] Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick

[en] Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
-Lillian Hellman

[en] Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie

[en] Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
-Gallagher

[en] We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

[en] Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
-Lily Tomlin

[en] He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
-GK Chesterton

[en] To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

[en] No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-Henry Adams

[en] Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
-Groucho Marx

[en] When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
-Mark Twain

[en] A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
-Robertson Davies

[en] Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
-Philip K. Dick

[en] In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost

[en] CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
-Arthur C. Clarke

[en] We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop

[en] Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-Redd Foxx

[en] Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
-Arthur Stringer

[en] Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
-Mark Twain

[en] If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
-John Alejandro King

[en] When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
-Dom Helder Camara

[en] The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[en] Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
-Arlo Guthrie

[en] If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
-Joe Martin

[en] When you find yourself in the company of a halfling and an ill-tempered dragon, remember, you do not have to outrun the dragon .... you just have to outrun the halfling.
-think geek

[en] In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

[en] The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
-Umberto Eco

[en] At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

[en] There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed... The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard... And so, in no sense, is stability a reason to move to a new version. It's never a reason.
-Bill Gates

[en] Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
-H. L. Mencken

[en] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken

[en] It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-Voltaire

[en] It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-Voltaire

[en] To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
-Voltaire

[en] The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
-Willie Tyler

[en] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
-Samuel Butler

[en] It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
-Martin Luther King Jr

[en] There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana

[en] The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot

[en] A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
-Denis Diderot

[en] Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
-Denis Diderot

[en] Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
-Fletcher Knebel

[en] Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
-Sir Julian Huxley

[en] Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
-John Lennon

[en] Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-Carl Sandburg

[en] Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
-John le Carre

[en] At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[en] Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
-John Le Carre

[en] There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
-Victor Hugo

[en] My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
-Ellen DeGeneres

[en] Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-Groucho Marx

[fr] On croit mourir pour la patrie, on meurt pour des industriels.
-Anatole France

[fr] Un homme à destin, ça ne se marie pas, ça reste célibataire, solitaire.
-Michel Tournier