Quotes of the day

I once asked a bishop whether there were any women in heaven. “Of course there are, my lord,” he answered, happy that I was taking an interest in doctrine. “Many of the most blessed saints are women.”

“I mean women we can hump, bishop.”

He said he would pray for me. Perhaps he did.
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

"It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether."

• Johnny Vegas

(Slightly different today, it's actually a summary from a book I'm adding to my to-read list)

The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
"In 1540, 12-year-old animal trainer Jahan arrives in the city of Istanbul from Hindustan, bringing a gift for the Sultan: a white baby elephant named Chota. Jahan and Chota's bond attracts the attention of chief engineer Sinan, who recruits the boy as his apprentice and makes use of the elephant's dexterity and strength to build mosques that are architectural masterpieces. That is, until political intrigue threatens to destroy everything they've created. Don't miss this sweeping historical saga set in the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. For other historical novels about orphaned boys who befriend elephants, try Jose Saramago's The Elephant's Journey or Christopher Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper.

I just think it's kind of awesome how " For other historical novels about orphaned boys who befriend elephants, try Jose Saramago's The Elephant's Journey or Christopher Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper. " is a thing:)

Then Byrhtnoth began to array men there,
rode and gave counsel, taught warriors
how they must stand and that stead [ 6 ] hold,20
bade them their round-shields rightly hold
fast with hands, not at all frightened.
When he had fairly arrayed that folk,
he dismounted among them where it most pleased him,
where he knew his hearth-band [ 7 ] most loyal.25

A person longing for any dream for a long time resembles that dream at last . -Andre Malraux -
Its my family's motto
Couldn't remember who said that so I had to search up tho :)

He would water his horses in the Rhine

• Boast attributed to Grand Duke Vytautus of Lithuania

Oliver de Bretagne: [his dagger is at Cadfael's throat] I think I have the better of you, brother.
Brother Cadfael: And I think we should both have died.
[Olivier looks down to see Cadfael's dagger at his heart]
Oliver de Bretagne: You're quick... for an old man.
Brother Cadfael: And you're over-careless for a young one. You must always beware of the unexpected stroke... Olivier.

"..." - Gordon Freeman

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams

"I said, take only what you need to survive!" - Lone Starr

"Things are made of stuff" - Bill Nye

"I always considered happiness to be something fate bestowed upon you. So I was always the passive one. Indulging in sweet delusions, running from reality and living a lie of happiness. I ran, and ran, and ran… and because I kept running, reality never changed." - Yasuda Sayo

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. ”
― George R.R. Martin

(Gonna agree strongly, here)

"Laws change depending on who's making them, but justice is justice." -- Odo (A Man Alone) Star Trek:Deep Space Nine.

Slightly related to the recent, huh, events... I felt I had to post that here.

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

" I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

C.S. Lewis

June 4, 1949: On this day, C.S. Lewis cautioned a reader about the "undesirability of shutting oneself in a cupboard" while re-enacting the adventures in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Morgan Freeman:

''You're reading this in my voice, aren't you.''

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. - Fight Club

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

"honestly i should go back to school, get multiple degrees, and lose myself in academia, the modern-day equivalent to joining a monastery, except there are thankfully smart, awesome,engaging women there"-Me to someone on steam chat, slightly improved.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

"I'm Batman"
― Batman

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few

• Winston Churchill