Extraordinary men are always most tempted by the most ordinary things.--Cancer Man

When it comes to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots.--Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. --Joseph Conrad

Deep Throat: Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extra terrestrial life on this earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?
Mulder: Because, all the evidence to the contrary, is not entirely dissuasive.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.--Johnathan Swift

Hey, any of you kids seen the truth? It's supposed to be out there!--MST3K

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire for power after power, that ceaseth only in death.--Hobbes

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.--Rousseau

Falsehood ceases to be falsehood when it is understood on all sides that the truth is not expected to be spoken.--Henry Taylor

CSM: What I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Super Bowl. As long as I'm alive, that doesn't happen.
Jones: That'll be tough, sir. Buffalo wants it bad.
CSM: So did the Soviets in '80.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.--Henry David Thoreau

And isn't faith believing all power can't be seen?--Josh Groban

...There are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals...but we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.--Max

To be on the wire is life; the rest is to be waiting.--All That Jazz

The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now then when we first believed.--Romans 13:11

...to God, death just means you're coming home a few moments ahead of schedule. --The Shadow of the Hegemon

...vanity of vanities; all is vanity. --Ecclesiastes 1:2

It's a struggle for heaven and earth. Where there is one law: fight or die. And one rule: resist or serve.--The Red and the Black

Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That corpse you planted last year in your garden, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?--The Wasteland, TS Eliot

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.--Cancer Man

If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen, or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced. --Fight the Future

We bury the dead alive.--Apocrypha

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.--Aeschylus