DE: A sentence full of words

[bjornwilde]

 I'm having trouble sleeping so you get a very early DE in the hopes this will allow me to sleep in to recover.

From camwyn :
Without citing their canon or any existing RP, give a quotation from somewhere that you feel describes your character.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Kirk:
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

[hasthehighground]

I'm in the same place. Good luck to you!

Clint: there's a lot of song lyrics, but this is the only quote that has jogged up right now.

"Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.

They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.

So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word." -- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

I will have to nap on it for the others.

[bjornwilde]

I did manage to sleep, though for the next few hours I kept waking up. Thanks! Too much TV before bed I think.

[redintheledger]

I have a whole bunch of things for Natasha, but this one wins because...it's the one I could remember. And it sums up the most about her, and her history (the 'you' is more than one person here):


You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly.
- Assata Shakur, "Story"

[cute_bruiser]

Oh, I like this!

For Molly and her fellow Runaways, one quote immediately comes to mind:

Still not too old to die young - Figure 8, by Ellie Goulding.

I'll get back to you for the others. *scoots back to work*

[splash_of_blue]

For cute_bruiser:
You can push me out the window
I'll just get back up
You can run over me with your 18-wheeler truck
And I won't give a fuck
You can hunt me like a slave
I'll go underground
You can run over me with your 18-wheeler but
You can't keep me down - Pink, 18-Wheeler
This is for either Molly, little or big: she's bouncy, fun, and absolutely unstoppable.

For hisonegoodeye:
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. - Norman Schwarzkopf

For lionlike_tabby:
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be twenty years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. - Bob Dylan

[vojvode]

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. from Macbeth

Blood is compulsory. from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

[camwyn]

Gordon and Shephard have already got theirs on their profile pages- Gordon has even used his ICly.

Gordon: "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong. (Yeah, the man was a performance doper, but it still counts.)

Shephard: "The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane." -Randall Munroe


I'll get you the others shortly.

[herr_bookman]

"You know nothing about me, you sanctimonious little shit!" -Mrs. Wilkinson, the ballet teacher from Billy Elliot

[co_pilot]

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
― Laurence Sterne

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I would have done what any other person would have done, but he picked me. I'm glad he picked me. There were a lot of women and children on the train who couldn't defend themselves. He picked me and instinct kicked in."

- Joseph Lozito, New York City subway rider who stopped a twenty-eight hour killing spree in 2011

[misslucyjane]

That. Was. awesome.

[death_gone_mad]

She keeps it all a secret
Found the Golden Muses / doesn't need to prove it
(She Waits)
She's a time bomb, with her vibe on / she's gonna use it and surprise them

-Kidneythieves, Arsenal

More of how she feels about herself than anything else, but there you have it.

[misslucyjane]

Steve: "Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21.

[fluffiest_archadian]

"Power without a purpose is meaningless and worthless. A firm purpose can change the impossible into the possible." - Deus, Asura's Wrath.

"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace." - John Russell.

[souffle_girlek]

For Clara. Or Oswin. Or all of them. Definitely all of them:

Listen to the MUSTN'TS child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me -
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be. ~ Shel Silverstein

[herr_bookman]

*quiet screaming* Best!

[bjornwilde]

You guys get song lyrics cause that's all my mind can handle right now...

Ben:
Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise
Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday

Or: There are no limits. There are plateaus, and you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. ~ Bruce Lee

Jess:
Belief and seeming are both often wrong
And I once believed in you

Hank:
If I knew then what I know now,
I'd wonder how not wonder when,
There's something going wrong again,
With me and mine.

[bjornwilde]

Anton would like me to add:
Who watches the Watch?

And damn I can't remember how the rest of the Commander Comes Vimes, Vimes damn you autocorrect, quote goes.

[el_enmascarado_de_plata]

"More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride."

-Dan Gable, American amateur wrestler and head coach; Olympic champion who did not surrender a single point in the Munich games.

[not_his_pa]

Oh, in the day we struggle with fatigue
Much greater than any offer was
We bow down and worship these bandits and cowboys
Unable to hold their own guns

Jakob Dylan - Valley Of The Low Sun Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[mmexlibris]

For Alex Drake (lady_bols):

"She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
'I'm sorry,' she replied quietly. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away the grief; that is what they are for.'" 
~Terry Pratchett

For Sherlock (hello_freak):

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." ― Rabindranath Tagore

For John Silver(an_honest_man):

"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

For Bryan Mills (particularskill):

"Courage is grace under pressure."
― Ernest Hemingway

[balancingminds]

(Jakob Dylan lyrics work for a lot of my pups and a lot of Gandhi fits for Charles.)

A temple of concrete that sits
With losers and orphans under it
It’s full of misfits and lovers that just need the cover that it gives
Be counted on and counted in

Misfits and Lovers-The Wallflowers

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
In Ethical Religion, (Madras: S. Ganesan, 1922), Chapter 6, p. 61

[neverbelievedintheend]

""Damn it, get out of the way and let a man work," the executioner snarled."

-Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

... look, all the other quotes I'm finding that sound right for Stacker on the surface ultimately come down to 'being a single unmovable individual is the most important thing in the world', and while he is deeply important to his world's canon, when the central message of the canon is that you have to be able to bond with another person in order to save the world, I kind of think you have to take that into account.

And I am not going to reuse Nick Fury's line to the Ominous Council of Ominousness, because that doesn't feel right either.

[hasthehighground]

This is about patriotism, from Steve in the comics, but it is what popped into my head for Stacker: When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move."

I agree with you on your talk-y think-y bits :). If there was a quote that established that it was perfectly viable & honorable to be the steady foundation on which other people build to change the world, that'd be different, but yeah.

And the quote you used made me choke on my pop, so... A+?

[janebecomes]

Using her own words.

No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Letter to Mr. Clarke (1816-04-01) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Mansfield Park (1814)

[morethanprops]

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.
- "The Czar's Soliloquy" Mark Twain

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
- Ashcroft-Lyon manuscript Mark Twain

[damncompass]

Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned
Think of all the things we learned
For the people that are still alive

...

Look at me still talking, when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive

And believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive

~Still Alive, Portal Soundtrack

[timelessinventor]

I am not so serious
this passion is a plagiarism
I might join your century
but only on a rare occasion
...
I don't necessarily believe there is a cure for this
so I might join your century but only as a doubtful guest

and...

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I'm your hell, I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way
...
I've been numb, I'm revived
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way

[empath_wiggin]

Every man has his daydreams
Every man has his goal
People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul
Thunder clouds have their lightning
Nightingales have their song
And don't you see I want my life
To be something more than long

~Corner of the Sky, Pippin

[whatisastiles]

"I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave."
~Tegan and Sara, "I'm Not Your Hero"

"But you’ll fight and you’ll make it through
You’ll fake it if you have to
And you’ll show up for work with a smile
And you’ll be better
And you’ll be smarter
And more grown up
And a better daughter or son
And a real good friend"
~Rilo Kiley, "A Better Son/Daughter"


Comic relief character. Ahahahahahaha. *dies*

[ceitfianna]

I love these quotes for Stiles. *hugs him*