Cormyr and the Dalelands

Once upon a time, on the old boards, someone suggested posting quotes that reflect your character's mindset and thoughts.  Quotes that describe your character are also fun.

Rhea:

Don Pedro: In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
Beatrice: Yea, my lord, I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.
~Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
~George Washington

Wulgar:


FDR: "Speak softly but carry a big stick"

Sophia: Smash for control images, smash for control machine W.S.B  And I was younger then, and nothing has transpired, when I look in the mirror, I am dead, i am cold, I am blind. -M Gira Swans.

Neisha:  Shut up, just, shut up...   you...  had me at hello,   you had me at hello -Dorothy from Jerry McGuire

Two for my character, Elzevir.

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." -Winston Churchill-

"Destiny is a game, is it not?" -Kain, 'Legacy of Kain'-

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
― George Orwell

"Si vis pacem, para bellum- "If you wish for peace, prepare for war."
― Latin

Dae'atria:

"It's the slow knife, the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between bones." Talia/Miranda, Dark Knight Rises

"Some may call it a curse, a life like mine; but others, a blessing. It's certainly a lonely life, but a fulfilling one at best. It's my cross to bear...But I bear it gladly. Someone has to take a stand against evil, why should it not be me?" Within Temptation - Why Not Me

Taly'siana:

"The greatest excellence lies not in winning a thousand battles, but obtaining victory without ever fighting." Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Morwen's watchwords, via Yosemite Sam: "I speak LOUUUUDLY and carry BIGGER stick! And I use it, too!" *BANG*

For Raikel - If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. [Niccolo Machiavelli]

In fact pretty much the whole of the 'Prince' fits him.

Sheighley Flynn -

"Who's that girl barefootin' along?
Whistlin' and a-singin' she's a-carryin' on
Laughter in her eyes, dancin' in her feet
She's a neon-light diamond she can live on the street"

 - The Grateful Dead

Don'tcha Let That Deal Go Down, Daph!

Morwen says: Light never battles darkness, so when you see a fight it is always between two dark forces. - Vernon Howard

Hydaro: (Max Payne)
Marcelo Branco: "Say Max, you're a man of the world. What do you fuckin' do with it?"
Max Payne: "about what?"
Marcelo Branco: "what do you do about life?"
Max Payne: "Look at me, I'm standing in a nightclub, listening to music I can't stand, I'm five thousand miles from home, I'm armed and I'm drinking. You don't want to listen to advice from me, amigo."

Zoey:

"Sorry.

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift." -   Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

Jaylithel:

"Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way."  - Joss Whedon

Alton:

"Shiny. Let's be bad guys." - Jayne Cobb, Serenity

Cecilia aka Badhbh (Nancy - The Craft):

Driver: "Watch out for the weirdos, girls."

Nancy: "We are the weirdos, mister."

Geno:

"Stand back everyone, nothing here to see. Just imminent danger and in the middle of it me. Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise." - Captain Hammer

" The hammer is my penis" - Captain Hammer

Nadia:

"Isn't this exciting? Are you excited, 'cause I'm excited, I've never been so excited-- well, except for the time that I saw you walking into town and I went [deep gasp] but I mean really, who can top that?"
-Pinkie Pie

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Rin:

"Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."
-Han Solo

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Jace:

"There's that word again. 'Heavy.' Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
-Emmett "Doc" Brown

Veir:

"What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name."
-Ivanhoe on what's left for valiant knights after they die.

"Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword."
-Ivanhoe, again

Helge:
William Wallace: [looking at the trees] We'll make spears. Hundreds of them! Long spears, twice as long as a man.
Hamish: That long?
William Wallace: Aye.
Hamish: Some men are longer than others.
Campbell: Your mother been telling you stories about me again, eh?
-Braveheart

Merriwether Riordan:

Lt. Col. Sheppard: Best case scenario?
Dr. McKay: I win a Nobel Prize.
Lt. Col. Sheppard: Worst case scenario?
Dr. McKay: We tear a hole in the fabric of the universe. [Sheppard looks horrified] Which is much less likely to happen than the Nobel Prize.
-Stargate Atlantis

Morwen:

If I advance, follow me.
If I retreat, kill me.
If I fall, avenge me.

Another for Dae...

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." --Unknown author

And for Mala: '"I've never been one to recommend drugs...violence...liquor or insanity to anyone. But they've always worked for me."

Cyrillia
"Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you're going to kill someone, you might as well kill them a whole lot."
- Vulcan Raven, The Last Days of FOXHOUND

Cara: "[When] you're going to break the rules, break them good and hard!" Terry Prachett, Wyrd Sisters

Ilcil Taral:  

"Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own."
-James Russell Lowell

"The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood."
-Samuel Butler

Hydaro:

"Look, I can't speak without swearing, and I've only got my Grade 10, and I haven't had a cigarette since I've been arrested, and I'm ready to fuckin' snap. So I'd like to make a request under the people's freedom of choices and voices act that I be able to smoke and swear in your courtroom. Because if I can't smoke and swear, I'm fucked! And so are all these guys. I won't be able to properly express myself at a court level, and that's bullshit! It's not fair and if you ask me, I think it's a fuckin' mistrial."
- Ricky

Ilcil:

"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rashan:

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true."
-Luigi Pirandello

Nayu A'nen

"If you can love something without the condition of being loved in return, then you can feel joy."
- Anisa Khawalid

"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous." --Dr. Johnson said that.

James St. Bell & Hydaro:

"Needless to say...
the beast was stunned...
WHIP-CRACK went his whoopy tail,
And the beast was done...
He asked us: "(snort) Be you angels?"
And we said, "Nay!
WE ARE BUT MEN!!!"

- Tenacious D

Daeatria Ravenshadow:

"I fear not death, or the moments before my last breath...
...I fear the day where I will dread my one love, the endless night,
...The day where I long to see the very sun that burns my eyes."

-Daeatrialay'aliah Ravenshadow

Orvil: Don't run! You'll just die tired!

      Stop, drop, and roll won't save you in hell.

Siduri's outlook on life is based on the Ancient Mesopotamian goddess that is her namesake:

Gilgamesh, whither are you wandering?
Life, which you look for, you will never find.
For when the gods created man, they let death be his share,
and life withheld in their own hands.
Gilgamesh, fill your belly.
Day and night make merry.
Let days be full of joy,
dance and make music day and night.
And wear fresh clothes.
And wash your head and bathe.
Look at the child that is holding your hand,
and let your wife delight in your embrace.
These things alone are the concern of men.

                             -Unknown Scribe; The Meissner Fragment

Hydaro:
'Tis true my form is something odd,
But blaming me is blaming God;
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
If I could reach from pole to pole
Or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul;
The mind's the standard of the man.

—poem used by Joseph Merrick, Aka the Elephant Man, to end his letters, adapted from "False Greatness" by Isaac Watts

Amaiss:
"Ideas are more powerful than [weapons]. We would not let our enemies have [weapons], why should we let them have ideas.
"
Joseph Stalin

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
"
-Lord Byron

"I am bone, and flesh and skin. If you cut me then I will bleed red, just as you, and I will die. We are, in flesh, equals despite our differences in physique and intellect, and despite our opposing viewpoints. Consider first your own mortality, before considering the mortality of others."

Clay:
"You can look me in the eye when I kill you"
-War (Darksiders)

"All I remember is what I have lost"
Kratos (God of War)

Goirin:
"You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up"
-Harry Nilsson

Priya: Lamb! So soft!

 

Rhea:

"Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."

― Edgar Allan Poe

Kyle Fox

Rocky Balboa: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you're hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done.

I love the amount of references. Bat'leth, Lightsaber, Zabimaru's sword (Naruto), sword from Thundercats, Link's Master Sword. Probably others.

I recognize final fantasy and star trek

He-Man's Sword of Power is right next to the lightsaber.  Such a nerdy image! XD

Yeah Adventure Time is awesome for nerdy stuff. Like the one episode where Finn meets the displacer displaced beast.

Alex

The harder I work, the luckier I become. – Terry Prachet

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. – Lao Tzu

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage. – Anne Bishop

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them. – Anne Bishop



Morghan

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. – Mae West



Rhea

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack. – Anne Bishop

Faethe Yraishvim

"Make a man a fire, you'll keep him warm for a night. Set a man on fire, you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life." ~ Terry Pratchett

"Man has a love for fire. Napalm, white phosphorus, promethium, oil, gasoline, meltas, plasmas, firestorms, incendiaries, firepower, fireline, flamethrower, fireteam, firefighter, the flames of war, fire, fire, fire. What else could be said to have benefited as much from man as fire? What other element has been defended, nursed, tutored, fed, and loved more than fire? Our cities, our books, our people, our enemies, our friends, our dead, our living, our greatest works and most heinous feats; all of them, fed to the ever hungry flames, And there it is, Years of brilliant minds worked on that one. For warfare, for country, for humanity? No. We wanted to see what fire, raw unchained flame, could do." ~ Love Can Bloom

"Of course you can fight fire with fire. You can fight anything with fire!" ~ Kyros, Irregular Webcomic

Megan Tentazione

"Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up." ~ Terry Pratchett

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ~ Marilyn Monroe

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." ~ Aristotle

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." ~ Robin Williams

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." ~ Bruce Feirstein

"Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops." ~ Mortimer Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace

Edge Stormfall

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." ~ Abraham Maslow

Viral: "Our attacks aren't powerful enough! The drill can't get through!"
Simon: "So you mean we're gonna have to use an even bigger drill?"
~ Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

"I told you; I don't make things. I break things." ~ Wreck-It Ralph

"We tried no smashing, and that didn't work. I'm sticking to my strengths. And smashing is my strengths. I just need to find the right way to smash him." ~ Coop, Megas XLR

Alton "Seldon" Doth'isheal


"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."
~ Lou Holtz


"Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be."
~ Richard Marcinko

"We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life." ~ Richard Marcinko

"The wolf cares not how many the sheep may be" ~ Plato

"Beware the fury of a patient man" ~ John Dryden

"A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those that cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and press in his arms the most desirable of their women."
~ Genghis Khan

Bastion Kinoshi

"A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart." ~ Shannon L. Alder

"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."
~ Joseph Addison

"A person dishonored is worse than dead.
" ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Aelie Selle

"Luck is believing you're lucky." - Tennessee Williams
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." - Henry Adams
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

Daeatria Ravenshadow

Inclination:

"The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I." ― Scarlett Johannson as Natasha Romanoff [Captain America: The Winter Soldier]

The other side:

"Saving you is the only thing that will bring me peace for all the wrong I have done. That is my truth."
― Jillian Peery [TigerLily]


Taly'siana


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." ― Wendy Mass [The Candymakers]

Myv Rodale:

"Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep."
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

"So many books, so little time."
― Frank Zappa

"What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?"
― Jim Butcher, White Night

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
― Mark Twain

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Arisa Reyer:

"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"

"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

"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."
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
― G.K. Chesterton

I can't believe I missed this topic.

Naaliah

'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes

Between the pass and fell incensèd points

Of mighty opposites.
~Shakespeare, Hamlet

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
One of USMC mottos.

For friendship is a priceless gift

That can't be bought or sold,

But to have an understanding friend

Is worth far more than gold...
~Helen Steiner Rice, A Golden Chain

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. 
~Erwin Rommel

The one that I have placed in my signature, obviously.

Eina

So many dreams were broken and so much we sacrifice

Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?

So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise?

Will all our sins be justified?
Within Temptation, Hand of Sorrow

Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.

Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

~Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo


Zev

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
~Heraclitus

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.
~Erwin Rommel

Triandel - had to find some that were suitably Trey 

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" ― Hunter S. Thompson

The Big Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn't that what makes a man?
The Dude: Hmmm... Sure, that and a pair of testicles.

Fenster: Man, I had a finger up my asshole tonight.
Hockney: Is it Friday already?

"It's still magic even if you know how it's done." ― Terry Pratchett,

Galen Kreiss:

If opportunity doesen't knock, build a door. - Milton Burle

Orokol Bloodborne: 

Your faith is your shield. Let them spend their impotent wrath. - Salamanders, Space Marines Chapter

Illix Shimmerscale: 

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. - Miguel Cervantes

Vruuk Hurnsar:

Vruuk Out. - Self

Tarriel Dalton:

Was never about going home, getting further, not even about winning. Was about standing here so my people had something between them and the horror coming over the hill. - Unknown, Attributed to British artilleryman, 1941

Mista Aermane:
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." - Murphy's Law
"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin
"If you are going through Hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Great works are accomplished not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

Xen'traya Luthaven:
"Anybody can become angry.  That is easy.  But to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way...  That is not within everybody's power, and is not easy." - Aristotle
"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself." - Michel de Montaigne
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius