diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index adcad4283..55a54be8b 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -36876,1917 +36876,1924 @@ "approvedBy": "Smithster", "id": 6517 }, + { + "text": "To be, or not to be? That is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them?", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6518 + }, { "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain. Suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace initiates war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses causal relationships that cannot be separated.", "source": "Madara Uchiha - Naruto Shippuden", "length": 574, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6518 + "id": 6519 }, { "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", "source": "The Vampire Diaries", "length": 413, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6519 + "id": 6520 }, { "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", "source": "Spider-Man", "length": 816, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 + "id": 6521 }, { "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", "source": "Donnie Darko", "length": 151, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 + "id": 6522 }, { "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", "length": 177, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 + "id": 6523 }, { "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", "length": 117, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 + "id": 6524 }, { "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", "length": 215, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 + "id": 6525 }, { "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", "source": "Death - Symbolic", "length": 406, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 + "id": 6526 }, { "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", "length": 329, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 + "id": 6527 }, { "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", "source": "Frasier", "length": 299, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 + "id": 6528 }, { "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", "length": 371, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 + "id": 6530 }, { "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", "source": "Last Night In Soho", "length": 62, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6529 + "id": 6531 }, { "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", "source": "Last Night In Soho", "length": 79, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 + "id": 6532 }, { "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", "source": "Last Night In Soho", "length": 98, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 + "id": 6533 }, { "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", "source": "Last Night In Soho", "length": 515, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 + "id": 6534 }, { "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", "source": "Last Night In Soho", "length": 512, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 + "id": 6535 }, { "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", "length": 112, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 + "id": 6536 }, { "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", "length": 202, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 + "id": 6537 }, { "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", "source": "Wonder", "length": 70, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 + "id": 6538 }, { "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", "length": 227, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 + "id": 6539 }, { "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", "source": "Naruto", "length": 65, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 + "id": 6540 }, { "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", "source": "Naruto", "length": 86, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 + "id": 6541 }, { "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", "length": 282, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6540 + "id": 6542 }, { "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", "source": "Grey's Anatomy", "length": 345, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 + "id": 6544 }, { "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", "length": 97, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6543 + "id": 6545 }, { "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", "source": "Grey's Anatomy", "length": 810, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 + "id": 6546 }, { "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", "source": "Mark Twain", "length": 155, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 + "id": 6547 }, { "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat.", "source": "Lover", "length": 183, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 + "id": 6548 }, { "text": "Flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me. Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes. Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me.", "source": "Dress", "length": 219, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 + "id": 6549 }, { "text": "HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you tried to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For 70 years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crises, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed.", "source": "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", "length": 492, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6548 + "id": 6550 }, { "text": "Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.", "source": "The Avengers", "length": 309, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6549 + "id": 6551 }, { "text": "Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.", "source": "Loki", "length": 80, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6550 + "id": 6552 }, { "text": "You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.", "source": "Loki", "length": 116, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6551 + "id": 6553 }, { "text": "Sometimes, you just gotta get destroyed standing up for what you believe in.", "source": "Technoblade", "length": 76, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6552 + "id": 6554 }, { "text": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.", "source": "Adventure Time", "length": 78, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6553 + "id": 6555 }, { "text": "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face.", "source": "Thanos", "length": 103, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6554 + "id": 6556 }, { "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", "length": 352, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6555 + "id": 6557 }, { "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", "length": 205, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 + "id": 6558 }, { "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", "source": "Cowboy Bebop", "length": 70, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 + "id": 6559 }, { "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I’ve been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", "source": "Cowboy Bebop", "length": 233, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 + "id": 6560 }, { "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", "source": "Emperor's New Groove", "length": 119, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 + "id": 6561 }, { "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", "length": 105, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 + "id": 6562 }, { "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", "source": "Minecraft", "length": 262, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 + "id": 6563 }, { "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this world. The longer you live, the more you realize that in this reality only pain, suffering and futility exist.", "source": "Madara Uchiha", "length": 167, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 + "id": 6564 }, { "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", "length": 103, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 + "id": 6565 }, { "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", "source": "Twilight", "length": 61, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6564 + "id": 6566 }, { "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", "source": "Twilight", "length": 100, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 + "id": 6567 }, { "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", "source": "The Song of Achilles", "length": 182, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 + "id": 6568 }, { "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", "source": "The Song of Achilles", "length": 170, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 + "id": 6569 }, { "text": "You're interesting! You're like a different person yet you've changed not a single bit! It's almost as if you have refused to grow on the outside, but you're growing all wrong-way, like your head is stretching deep into your stomach, like you're speaking with your bum and defecating through your eyeballs. This visage is tainted but from within, and if I were to rip a piece from you and place it between my lips I'd be duly poisoned. What's with you?", "source": "Oh, perispomenon!", "length": 452, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 + "id": 6570 }, { "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", "source": "Tinker creek.", "length": 573, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 + "id": 6571 }, { "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", "source": "House of Leaves", "length": 108, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6570 + "id": 6572 }, { "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", "source": "Haruki Murakami", "length": 78, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 + "id": 6573 }, { "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", "source": "American Football - Never Meant", "length": 287, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 + "id": 6574 }, { "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", "source": "Dylan Thomas", "length": 127, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 + "id": 6576 }, { "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? It’s not about you.", "source": "Dr Strange", "length": 126, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6575 + "id": 6577 }, { "text": "I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, I get older but your lovers stay my age.", "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", "length": 98, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 + "id": 6578 }, { "text": "\"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?\" Dumbledore asked calmly.", "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "length": 78, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6577 + "id": 6579 }, { "text": "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine and that made me want to die.", "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", "length": 192, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6578 + "id": 6580 }, { "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. Then what am I?", "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "length": 101, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6579 + "id": 6581 }, { "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", "source": "Breaking Bad", "length": 79, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6580 + "id": 6582 }, { "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it.. It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", "source": "Rap God", "length": 360, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 + "id": 6583 }, { "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", "source": "Attack on Titan", "length": 128, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 + "id": 6584 }, { "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", "source": "Attack on Titan", "length": 162, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 + "id": 6585 }, { "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", "source": "Dune", "length": 131, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 + "id": 6586 }, { "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", "length": 784, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 + "id": 6587 }, { "text": "I don't want your body, but I hate to think about you with somebody else. Our love has gone cold, you're intertwining your soul with somebody else. I'm looking through you while you're looking through your phone and then leaving with somebody else. No, I don't want your body but I'm picturing your body with somebody else.", "source": "Somebody Else", "length": 323, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 + "id": 6588 }, { "text": "I didn't want to remember him. If I had to remember him, it would mean he wasn't a part of my life anymore.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 107, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 + "id": 6589 }, { "text": "Until he comes back for me, I'm just going to keep pretending to be okay. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 178, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6588 + "id": 6590 }, { "text": "In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 121, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6589 + "id": 6591 }, { "text": "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 62, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6590 + "id": 6592 }, { "text": "Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 426, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6591 + "id": 6593 }, { "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", "source": "It Ends With Us", "length": 88, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6592 + "id": 6594 }, { "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", "length": 241, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 + "id": 6595 }, { "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", "length": 261, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 + "id": 6596 }, { "text": "The Vital Apparatus Vent will deliver a Weighted Companion Cube in Three. Two. One. This Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", "length": 181, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 + "id": 6597 }, { "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", "length": 81, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 + "id": 6599 }, { "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", "length": 73, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6598 + "id": 6600 }, { "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", "source": "Great Potato War", "length": 79, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 + "id": 6601 }, { "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", "length": 190, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 + "id": 6602 }, { "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. You're receiving the gold of a better life. When you change yourself, you change the world.", "source": "Gojira - Silvera", "length": 173, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 + "id": 6603 }, { "text": "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.", "source": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "length": 81, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 + "id": 6604 }, { "text": "Well... you clean up the dirt, there's just more dirt to clean up tomorrow. Make the beds, they just have to be made tomorrow. Wash the dishes, more to wash tomorrow. Make dinner, it just gets eaten, doesn't it? The world keeps growing, and you feed it. But it doesn't feed you, does it? But... how much can you take? How much can you take before you snap?", "source": "The Witches of Eastwick", "length": 356, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6603 + "id": 6605 }, { "text": "To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", "length": 568, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6604 + "id": 6606 }, { "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", "source": "Half-Life 2 ", "length": 78, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6605 + "id": 6607 }, { "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. He tells them to hold hands and then they must tread the dance in a long row.", "source": "The Seventh Seal", "length": 283, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 + "id": 6608 }, { "text": "I’m a camp manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun. I have a list because I’m trying to help you from coming back to camp and finding your tent collapsed and full of rainwater and having no dry clothes or nowhere to sleep. I’m trying to keep you from spending half a day setting up tents because you didn’t plan where everything would go in advance. And I’m trying to keep you from doing small, simple things that could result in a horrific and most assuredly agonizing demise.", "source": "How to Survive Camping", "length": 511, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6608 + "id": 6610 }, { "text": "Life is not about how you survive the storm, it's about how you dance in the rain.", "source": "The Paramour (Book 1) ", "length": 82, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6609 + "id": 6611 }, { "text": "Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.", "source": "Pierce Brown, Golden Son", "length": 80, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6610 + "id": 6612 }, { "text": "You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.", "source": "Mandy Hale", "length": 102, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6611 + "id": 6613 }, { "text": "She could be up or she could be down, but I'm not around to see.", "source": "Not Around by Nova", "length": 64, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6612 + "id": 6614 }, { "text": "A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, dressed in the skin, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep. Soon a little Lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.", "source": "Aesop: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", "length": 332, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6613 + "id": 6615 }, { "text": "No school, no playing. Nothing. The days were long and we would argue just for something to do. When you are locked up with someone, everything they do can quickly become annoying, because you can’t get away from it. Every day is the same.", "source": "Kids of Kabul", "length": 239, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6614 + "id": 6616 }, { "text": "Rivers and roads, rivers and roads, rivers 'til I reach you.", "source": "Rivers and Roads - The Head and the Heart", "length": 60, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6615 + "id": 6617 }, { "text": "But what the world fails to realize is that a villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told.", "source": "Chris Colfer - The Land of Stories", "length": 100, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6616 + "id": 6618 }, { "text": "I like what's best for me, but if I can't have that... then no one can!", "source": "Lighting in the sun", "length": 71, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6617 + "id": 6619 }, { "text": "You are capable of anything, but you don’t seem to think that you could fly so low or sink so high; that you could ever love again or even try; that you could steal, or cheat, or kill, or lie. But you might.", "source": "Ben Folds - Capable of Anything", "length": 207, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6618 + "id": 6620 }, { "text": "Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.", "source": "Zack de la Rocha", "length": 391, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6619 + "id": 6621 }, { "text": "I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating, so won't the real Slim Shady please stand up?", "source": "The Real Slim Shady - Eminem", "length": 132, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6620 + "id": 6622 }, { "text": "Remember! Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", "length": 76, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6621 + "id": 6623 }, { "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you..", "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", "length": 155, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6622 + "id": 6624 }, { "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", "length": 77, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 + "id": 6625 }, { "text": "You can't force someone to love you. The best you can do is strive to be someone worthy of loving.", "source": "Dipper Pines, Gravity Falls", "length": 98, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 + "id": 6626 }, { "text": "If you accidentally eat the prize that comes inside your cereal, does that make you a specially-marked box?", "source": "Soos, Gravity Falls", "length": 107, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 + "id": 6627 }, { "text": "Paper news and pay-per-views, they're all but gone but my tree lives on. Asked her how she came to survive. She whispered, \"The mindless will thrive.\"", "source": "Paper News, Ritt Momney", "length": 150, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6626 + "id": 6628 }, { "text": "For tonight's final illusion we have the incredible sack of mystery. When you put your money in it, it mysteriously disappears.", "source": "Gravity Falls", "length": 127, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6627 + "id": 6629 }, { "text": "Studies show owning a ladder is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That's why I own ten guns, just in case some fool tries to sneak in here with a ladder.", "source": "Gravity Falls", "length": 153, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6628 + "id": 6630 }, { "text": "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?", "source": "Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys", "length": 155, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6629 + "id": 6631 }, { "text": "I don't know how to tell you, but I love you. I'm not good with words, but I'm talking. I'm not good at talking, but I talk to you. I'm not good at being myself, but I am around you. I'm not good at being loved, but you love me too. I don't know how to tell you, but I love you.", "source": "Matthew D. Thomason ", "length": 278, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6630 + "id": 6632 }, { "text": "Yeah the worst part is knowing that you'll never be mine, and it drives me wild, yeah it drives me wild.", "source": "Koe Wetzel", "length": 104, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6631 + "id": 6633 }, { "text": "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Jr., you're my big man. There are going to be some things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. But just know that no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.", "source": "Breaking Bad", "length": 462, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6632 + "id": 6634 }, { "text": "I am Egypt. I am the Evening and the Morning Star. What I say goes.", "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", "length": 67, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6633 + "id": 6635 }, { "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", "length": 102, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6634 + "id": 6636 }, { "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", "length": 81, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 + "id": 6637 }, { "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", "length": 193, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 + "id": 6638 }, { "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", "source": "Without Me, Eminem", "length": 136, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 + "id": 6639 }, { "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", "length": 159, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 + "id": 6640 }, { "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", "source": "Invader Zim", "length": 91, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 + "id": 6641 }, { "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", "length": 196, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 + "id": 6642 }, { "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", "source": "Red Vs. Blue", "length": 100, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 + "id": 6643 }, { "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", "source": "Back to December", "length": 313, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 + "id": 6644 }, { "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", "length": 373, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 + "id": 6645 }, { "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", "length": 148, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 + "id": 6646 }, { "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", "source": "Nelson Mandela", "length": 89, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 + "id": 6647 }, { "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", "source": "Mother Teresa", "length": 81, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 + "id": 6648 }, { "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", "source": "Margaret Mead", "length": 72, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 + "id": 6650 }, { "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "length": 77, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6649 + "id": 6651 }, { "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "length": 70, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 + "id": 6652 }, { "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", "source": "Benjamin Franklin", "length": 70, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 + "id": 6653 }, { "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", "source": "Helen Keller", "length": 114, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 + "id": 6654 }, { "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", "source": "Aristotle", "length": 69, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 + "id": 6655 }, { "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "length": 87, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 + "id": 6656 }, { "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", "source": "Maya Angelou", "length": 71, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 + "id": 6657 }, { "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", "source": "Diary of a Wimply Kid: The Getaway", "length": 106, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 + "id": 6658 }, { "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", "source": "Despicable Me", "length": 313, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6657 + "id": 6659 }, { "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", "source": "Madame Zeroni - Holes (2003)", "length": 90, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 + "id": 6660 }, { "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", "source": "Madame Zeroni - Holes (2003)", "length": 86, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 + "id": 6661 }, { "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", "source": "Silent Hill 2", "length": 699, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 + "id": 6662 }, { "text": "The shepherd’s boy says, “There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.", "source": "Doctor Who", "length": 396, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 + "id": 6663 }, { "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", "source": "Angela Davis", "length": 127, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 + "id": 6664 }, { "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", "source": "Malcolm X", "length": 101, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 + "id": 6665 }, { "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others when until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", "source": "Malcolm X", "length": 96, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 + "id": 6666 }, { "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", "source": "Maya Angelou", "length": 168, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 + "id": 6668 }, { "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerged. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", "source": "Without Me, Eminem", "length": 143, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6667 + "id": 6669 }, { "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", "source": "Fate/Zero", "length": 752, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 + "id": 6670 }, { "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different colour, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", "source": "86", "length": 348, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 + "id": 6671 }, { "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.", "source": "Yoda, Star wars", "length": 101, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 + "id": 6672 }, { "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", "length": 131, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6672 + "id": 6674 }, { "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", "source": "Watchmen (2019)", "length": 420, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6673 + "id": 6675 }, { "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice,\" have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", "source": "Suikoden 5", "length": 738, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 + "id": 6676 }, { "text": "OK. Forget the brick. New joke. Three heroes die and they all show up at the pearly gates. God’s there and he’s going to decide what their eternal fate shall be: heaven or hell. Our first hero is dressed up like a big owl. God says to him “I gifted you the ability to make fantastic inventions. What did you do with this amazing talent?” Owl guy says “I made this really awesome flying ship and lots of cool outfits and weapons so I could bring peace to the city.” God asks ‘so how many people did you kill?’ Owl guy seems offended. He says “Zero. I didn’t take a single life.” God frowns. “Sorry owl guy, your heart’s in the right place but you’re just too soft.” God snaps his fingers and the hero goes to hell.", "source": "Watchmen (2019)", "length": 713, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 + "id": 6677 }, { "text": "I am Keqing, Yuheng of the Liyue Qixing. We live in an era of change, as the old order that has existed for a thousand years is about to be rewritten. Join me. Let us bear witness to this historical moment together.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 215, - "id": 6676 + "id": 6678 }, { "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 62, - "id": 6677 + "id": 6679 }, { "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 90, - "id": 6678 + "id": 6680 }, { "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 131, - "id": 6679 + "id": 6681 }, { "text": "Thunder and lightning can be quite frightening, but don't worry - Liyue's storm and fire defenses are second to none.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 117, - "id": 6680 + "id": 6682 }, { "text": "Don't worry, snowfall on this scale is no impediment. We can keep moving.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 73, - "id": 6681 + "id": 6683 }, { "text": "Ah, the sun is out, our work's done for the day... Shall we take a stroll?", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 74, - "id": 6682 + "id": 6684 }, { "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 103, - "id": 6683 + "id": 6685 }, { "text": "I'm not in the habit of napping at noon, but don't let that stop you if you're feeling tired. I'll give you a wake up call in, say, three minutes' time.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 152, - "id": 6684 + "id": 6686 }, { "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 99, - "id": 6685 + "id": 6687 }, { "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 119, - "id": 6686 + "id": 6688 }, { "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 162, - "id": 6687 + "id": 6689 }, { "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 142, - "id": 6688 + "id": 6690 }, { "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", "source": "Genshin Impact", "length": 66, - "id": 6689 + "id": 6691 }, { "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", "length": 93, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6691 + "id": 6693 }, { "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", "length": 257, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6692 + "id": 6694 }, { "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", "source": "Roger Federer", "length": 113, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 + "id": 6695 }, { "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can’t pay back what you owe with money.", "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", "length": 85, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6694 + "id": 6696 }, { "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I’m tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", "length": 154, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 + "id": 6697 }, { "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", "length": 98, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 + "id": 6698 }, { "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, Jojo!", "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", "length": 191, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 + "id": 6699 }, { "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", "length": 234, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 + "id": 6700 }, { "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this world. The longer you live, the more you realize that in this reality, only pain, suffering, and futility exist.", "source": "Naruto", "length": 169, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 + "id": 6701 }, { "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "length": 191, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 + "id": 6702 }, { "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", "length": 127, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6701 + "id": 6703 }, { "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", "source": "Face Off", "length": 219, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 + "id": 6704 }, { "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", "source": "Easy Rider", "length": 157, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 + "id": 6705 }, { "text": "It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!", "source": "The Secret History", "length": 578, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 + "id": 6706 }, { "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", "source": "Lord of the Flies", "length": 64, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 + "id": 6707 }, { "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", "length": 373, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6706 + "id": 6708 }, { "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", "length": 115, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 + "id": 6709 }, { "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", "length": 103, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 + "id": 6710 }, { "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", "length": 222, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 + "id": 6711 }, { "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", "source": "Alice Chary Garza", "length": 294, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 + "id": 6712 }, { "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", "source": "C.S. Lewis", "length": 239, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 + "id": 6713 }, { "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", "source": "Call Me by Your Name", "length": 176, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 + "id": 6715 }, { "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "length": 121, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6714 + "id": 6716 }, { "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "length": 87, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6715 + "id": 6717 }, { "text": "Link... You may not be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories, but courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "length": 163, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 + "id": 6718 }, { "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", "source": "Michael Jordan", "length": 224, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 + "id": 6719 }, { "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", "source": "Pride and Prejudice", "length": 241, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6718 + "id": 6720 }, { "text": "It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming. On days like these, kids like you... Should be burning in Hell.", "source": "Undertale", "length": 134, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 + "id": 6721 }, { "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", "source": "Call Me by Your Name", "length": 85, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 + "id": 6722 }, { "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", "length": 234, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6721 + "id": 6723 }, { "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", "length": 239, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 + "id": 6724 }, { "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In a instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", "length": 2286, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 + "id": 6725 }, { "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", "source": "Dune", "length": 76, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 + "id": 6726 }, { "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "source": "Albert Einstein", "length": 85, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 + "id": 6727 }, { "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", "source": "Light Chaser", "length": 561, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 + "id": 6728 }, { "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", "length": 360, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 + "id": 6729 }, { "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", "source": "Alan Watts", "length": 143, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 + "id": 6730 }, { "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", "length": 60, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 + "id": 6731 }, { "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", "length": 173, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 + "id": 6732 }, { "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", "length": 109, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 + "id": 6733 }, { "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", "source": "American Psycho", "length": 586, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 + "id": 6734 }, { "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", "source": "American Psycho", "length": 1175, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 + "id": 6735 }, { "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", "length": 221, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 + "id": 6736 }, { "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 184, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 + "id": 6737 }, { "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 145, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 + "id": 6738 }, { "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 246, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 + "id": 6739 }, { "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 88, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 + "id": 6740 }, { "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 85, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 + "id": 6741 }, { "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", "length": 272, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 + "id": 6742 }, { "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 275, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 + "id": 6743 }, { "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", "source": "The Sandman", "length": 186, "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 + "id": 6744 }, { "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", "source": "Goodnight Punpun", "length": 467, - "id": 6743 + "id": 6745 }, { "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on wall street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", "source": "Goodnight Punpun", "length": 876, - "id": 6744 + "id": 6746 }, { "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", "source": "A Girl on the Shore", "length": 572, - "id": 6745 + "id": 6747 }, { "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 64, - "id": 6746 + "id": 6748 }, { "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 62, - "id": 6747 + "id": 6749 }, { "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 77, - "id": 6748 + "id": 6750 }, { "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 166, - "id": 6749 + "id": 6751 }, { "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 195, - "id": 6750 + "id": 6752 }, { "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 100, - "id": 6751 + "id": 6753 }, { "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 172, - "id": 6752 + "id": 6754 }, { "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", "source": "Confucius", "length": 118, - "id": 6753 + "id": 6755 }, { "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", "source": "Confucius", "length": 119, - "id": 6754 + "id": 6756 }, { "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6755, + "id": 6757, "length": 234 }, { "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6756, + "id": 6758, "length": 119 }, { "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6759, + "id": 6761, "length": 232 }, { "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6760, + "id": 6762, "length": 152 }, { "text": "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them.", "source": "Enders Game", - "id": 6761, + "id": 6763, "length": 335 }, { "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6762, + "id": 6764, "length": 458 }, { "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6763, + "id": 6765, "length": 141 }, { "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, + "id": 6766, "length": 145 }, { "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy be happy for me, and I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6765, + "id": 6767, "length": 202 }, { "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6766, + "id": 6768, "length": 250 }, { "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6767, + "id": 6769, "length": 109 }, { "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6768, + "id": 6770, "length": 531 }, { "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It’s funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn’t worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6769, + "id": 6771, "length": 703 }, { "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6770, + "id": 6772, "length": 403 }, { "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, + "id": 6773, "length": 201 }, { "text": "I'll...keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge--to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose -- direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, + "id": 6774, "length": 466 }, { "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, + "id": 6775, "length": 259 }, { "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, + "id": 6776, "length": 267 }, { "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, + "id": 6777, "length": 146 }, { "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, + "id": 6778, "length": 304 }, { "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, + "id": 6779, "length": 392 }, { "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6778, + "id": 6780, "length": 358 }, { "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6779, + "id": 6781, "length": 105 }, { "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, + "id": 6782, "length": 183 }, { "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6781, + "id": 6783, "length": 521 }, { "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6782, + "id": 6784, "length": 256 }, { "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, + "id": 6785, "length": 99 }, { "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I’d love to work on a project like that.", "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6784, + "id": 6786, "length": 245 }, { "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6785, + "id": 6787, "length": 79 }, { "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6786, + "id": 6788, "length": 56 }, { "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6787, + "id": 6789, "length": 662 }, { "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6788, + "id": 6790, "length": 75 }, { "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6789, + "id": 6791, "length": 383 }, { "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6790, + "id": 6792, "length": 108 }, { "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", "length": 99, - "id": 6791 + "id": 6793 }, { "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", "length": 86, - "id": 6792 + "id": 6794 }, { "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", "length": 58, - "id": 6793 + "id": 6795 }, { "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", "length": 113, - "id": 6794 + "id": 6796 }, { "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", "length": 102, - "id": 6795 + "id": 6797 }, { "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", "length": 91, - "id": 6796 + "id": 6798 }, { "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", "length": 70, - "id": 6797 + "id": 6799 }, { "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", "length": 67, - "id": 6798 + "id": 6800 }, { "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", "length": 79, - "id": 6799 + "id": 6801 }, { "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", "length": 86, - "id": 6800 + "id": 6802 }, { "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", "length": 82, - "id": 6801 + "id": 6803 }, { "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", "length": 153, - "id": 6802 + "id": 6804 }, { "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", "length": 70, - "id": 6803 + "id": 6805 }, { "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", "length": 98, - "id": 6804 + "id": 6806 }, { "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", "length": 78, - "id": 6805 + "id": 6807 }, { "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", "length": 108, - "id": 6806 + "id": 6808 }, { "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", "length": 134, - "id": 6807 + "id": 6809 }, { "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", "length": 90, - "id": 6808 + "id": 6810 }, { "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story?", "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", "length": 62, - "id": 6809 + "id": 6811 }, { "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", "source": "The Obedient Servant, Hamilton", "length": 89, - "id": 6810 + "id": 6812 }, { "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", "length": 71, - "id": 6811 + "id": 6813 }, { "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", "length": 81, - "id": 6812 + "id": 6814 }, { "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", "source": "Fred Rogers", "length": 213, - "id": 6813 + "id": 6815 } ] }