Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move." --Captain America.

LOTR

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky.
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Every time I here this poem. Every. Single. Time. Shivers run up my spine.

And of course who could ever forget "Would you Kindly?" Seriously, every time I hear this in a game it freaks me out.

I always loved the descriptions on Magic: The Gathering cards, especially those two:

First to charge, first to fight.
-Alpha Myr

Last to charge, last to fall.
-Omega Myr

This is a long one.At end of Minecraft after you beat the dragon, This conversation addressing the player happens

Everything the Dark Prince ever says in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. Love that dude.

The Tooth Fairy in Dexter:
"All I ever cared about was killing, and I can't even do that right anymore. That's what you got to look forward to. This is your future, and it includes adult fucking diapers!"

Lazarus Long from Time Enough for Love

Ugh... some many quotes, this is just a small fraction of them.
http://www.pithypedia.com/?author=Lazarus+Long

"Not all who wander are lost."

I forgot who said it but it's from LOTR

"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I?ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."

-The Nameless One at the end of PS:T

"One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall" - Optimus Prime (Every Transformers Thing Ever) Anyone who even gives the slightest fuck about Transformers knows this one.

"We're on Tsavo Highway about -fizzle- east of Voy. Someone, anyone, respond!" - Sgt. Stacker (Halo 3) Had to listen to that again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and a-EFFING-GAIN when played through Tsavo Highway on Legendary.

"You thought you could destroy me!? You thought you could destroy Trypticon!? Hah! Pathetic!" - Trypticon (Transformers: War for Cybertron) You are a huge Transformer, and you have to fight something so big you are the size of his finger. Difficult, terrifying, exciting, fun, and well made this is one of the most memorable boss battles I've ever played through.

...That's about it. They are just memorable, never made me stop and think.

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.

Molly: "Wrote the Laws of Magic, founded the White Council, was custodian of one of the Swords and established a stronghold for the Council, too," Molly said. "He must have been something else."
Harry: "He must have been a real bastard," I said. "Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders."
Molly: "You're such a cynic," Molly said.
Harry: "I think cynics are playful and cute."

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

All from the Dresden Files Series....Books that ooze class out of every orifice..

'Flesh wound? Flesh wound? They're all flesh wounds! No one ever says "Ooh, look! I've just been shot in the bones, but it missed my flesh completely!" It's a load of old nonsense, is what it is. It's a phrase you heroic warrior types trot out so you can sound manly and stoic. "Bah, it's just a flesh wound! Only a flesh wound! I can carry on!" Nonsense!'- Father Zweil; Dan Abnett, His Last Command

"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without."
-The Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)

"It isn't a question of can or can't... some things in life, you just do."

-Lightning, Final Fantasy XIII

"Well, that's the only kinda gift worth given'."

-Dante, Devil May Cry 4 (In response to Nero's "I thought this thing meant a lot to you")

Paddy the Second:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" No idea, read it in several different different places.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device -David Langford

"The world is better off without snakes"

Big Boss, Metal Gear Solid 4

I don't know if this has been said already but in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen's commentaries on the different endings to the game were thought provoking for me. It highlighted, for me, some of the ethics that would revolve around a "trans-human" society.

Seabear:
"And you, a Stormcloak? I thought better of you."

Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun.

I don't think I've ever felt so... guilty in a game as when I helped overthrow a good ruler and all round friendly guy. I made sure to make a no-kills run of the mission, but my god, finishing up I just felt... bad.

If it makes you feel any better apparently not siding with the stormcloaks kills all of humanity (i don't really know, something to do with the empire banning the worship of talos wich the elves demanded for that very purpouse).

It was a really nice moral dilemma in an otherwise rather shallow game up until I found about that online. Of course it would be nice if there were an option to figure that out in the game and unite the empire and the stormcloaks against the thalmor.

"We're all dying, a little bit every day."
A character named Dulcie from the novel Going Bovine. It's a great book, about a kid who contracts mad cow. Really bizarre and insightful.

Use_Imagination_here:

Seabear:
"And you, a Stormcloak? I thought better of you."

Jarl Balgruuf of Whiterun.

I don't think I've ever felt so... guilty in a game as when I helped overthrow a good ruler and all round friendly guy. I made sure to make a no-kills run of the mission, but my god, finishing up I just felt... bad.

If it makes you feel any better apparently not siding with the stormcloaks kills all of humanity (i don't really know, something to do with the empire banning the worship of talos wich the elves demanded for that very purpouse).

It was a really nice moral dilemma in an otherwise rather shallow game up until I found about that online. Of course it would be nice if there were an option to figure that out in the game and unite the empire and the stormcloaks against the thalmor.

Actually....

...
-Gordon Freeman

That mant speaks to me.

"I say we dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
-Ellen Ripley
Truly words to live by.

"Do you know what your sin is?"
"Ah hell, I'm a fan of all seven."
Had to get one from good old Capt. Mal.

This is a gaming website, so I should probably get at least one from a game. This is one that made me laugh pretty hard:

"Hey again. So I just got a birthday card from the Admiral. It has a picture of a dragon on it and it says 'To my special friend on his birthday, flame on!' And the dragon is lighting the candles on a cake with his fire breath. Ha ha. Ugh. That doesn't even make sense to me. It's like mowing your lawn with a nuclear weapon- and it's not even my birthday. I need to kill you so I can leave. Maybe just kill yourself and save me the trouble, mate?"
-General Knoxx, Borderlands DLC

"Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... forever."

"I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else!
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.
That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

Both said by The Joker in The killing joke.

JoesshittyOs:

"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles"

I am 100% positive that line is taken directly from The Princess Bride.

OT - Just about everything from Planescape: Torment, the most prominent being the oft-repeated "What can change the nature of man?" I've asked many people that question, and I've gotten almost as many different answers.

RaffB:
Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.

Molly: "Wrote the Laws of Magic, founded the White Council, was custodian of one of the Swords and established a stronghold for the Council, too," Molly said. "He must have been something else."
Harry: "He must have been a real bastard," I said. "Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders."
Molly: "You're such a cynic," Molly said.
Harry: "I think cynics are playful and cute."

Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

All from the Dresden Files Series....Books that ooze class out of every orifice..

God bless you, man. The Dresden Files would have to be the most quotable and fantastic series of books I have ever had the pleasure reading.

- "Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help."

- "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."

On a more serious note:
-"It isn't about what's right, it's about what's fair!"

-"My name is Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it, I had time but I did not know it, and I had love, but I did not feel it. I knew I would not have enough time to do everything, but now I worry I will not have enough time to do anything."

-"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

- "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Fuck subtle."

Vault101:
"Time is an illusion to them, while we are contrainted by it, they know their purpose, while we search endlessly for ours"
-Jarvik ME3

Not quite as good as "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" - Wowbagger, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Do not flatter Fate. It did not guide you into my clutches tonight. That was all my doing."
Magic the Gathering Crossway Vampire

"The first step to peace is to learn how to forget"
Magic the Gathering Curse of Oblivion

"Pick not the rotten fruit, but neither touch the best. Leave those as an offering for our unseen guests."
-Radwick, farmer of Gatstaf
Magic the Gathering

"My faith is stronger than fang, claw, or mindles hunger."
Moment of Heroism
Magic the Gathering

"The spoils of war are not measured only in gold and silver."
Liflink
Magic the Gathering

Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road

Courier: "I still don't understand - why are you doing this?"

Ulysses: "You answered your own question. And you'll die with that question on your lips. You don't see, listen - even if it's all around you, no matter if I nailed it into your head like a gift from Caesar.

You brought the Divide to life, Courier. You walked the road. Brought the Bear, then the Bull, brought me, following your tracks. And when I saw the Divide you made, I saw a second chance, a new way of thinking. My world - no longer the East. Then you brought the West in that package. Destroyed it all. Nearly killed me, flesh and spirit.

You destroyed something larger than the Bear, greater than the Bull. And even when you could have turned away, you brought it again, in that machine. You destroyed a nation taking its first breath. A place that could have been my home. Now, I'll destroy yours."

Lonesome Road - Epilogie

"The lights flickered across the Divide, reminders that the Old World histories persist, and find meaning in the present.

It is said that war - war never changes. Men do, through the roads they walk. And this road has reached its end."

Ulysses Final Message

"This world, I've walked a good part of it... I stopped only because of you. What you did - gave me pause. Long ago, I crossed the Colorado, the first among the Legion to see Hoover Dam in all its glory... an Old World wall, yet bridging two sides. And beyond it, a symbol of a two-headed Bear, an idea great enough to challange Caesar himself. Might kill him, taking it, whether he won or lost. The Bull needs to fight, needs the challenge, without it... it falters, dies in the dust. Might be a lesson there, in you and me. Leave the thought behind the message to you. My message is this - the destruction has been wrought, at the Divide - or elsewhere, if you couldn't stop me... It can happen again. It will keep happening. If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols. Even if it is nothing at all, know what you follow, Courier... just as I followed you, to the end. Whatever your symbol... carry it on your back, and wear it proudly when you stand at Hoover Dam."

(As you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of New Vegas.)

JaceArveduin:
"Was it red-red-green, or red-green-red?" -Scorch, Republic Commando

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, then there's something you don't know." Foaly, Artemis Fowl.

"According to some, 2 heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

2 Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind." Bartimaeus, Bartimaeus Trilogy

You're the only person I've yet to find that has read one or both of those. Thank you.

For the thread, these are all from The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Richard
"There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people." -Zedd
"I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends." -Zedd
"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." -Richard
"It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind." - Nathan Rahl
"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." -Richard
"Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble." - Adie
"Only those you trust can betray you." - Nathan Rahl

"War was the only thing... the only thing I was good at" -Grey Fox (MGS1)

"But there is only one truth that is your truth. That's the one that's formed by whatever point of view that you chose to view it from. It's a revised perception that protects you."

Neon Genesis Evangelion, final episode. Im not sure who said it cause the main character was having an existential breakdown in his head, and one of the voices in his head said it.

"We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different... well, who knows?" -Meowth, Pokemon the First Movie
Well said sir, well said. Never expected a life lesson from a talking cat, but there you go.

"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
So do all who live 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."

This has probably been given before, but but this line really, really stuck with me. It really drove home for me what a wise soul Gandalf was.

"I'm so fucking hard right now!"
-Jan Valentine, Hellsing