All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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I also would say Hayes Carll, in the American Dream song (though it's partly the delivery)
"Nothing changes, even if it wants to."
This isn't the greatest sentence, this is just a tribute.
I think, therefore I am.
-Descartes
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”
- Lucy Parsons
"Welcome to Costco, I love you"
It has not been written yet. But it will be soon. Look in the obituary sections.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain.
Never half ass two things, instead whole ass one thing.
Hold my beer!
Personally I think the golden rule it has many variations.
e.g. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.
Then another is from V for Vendetta
Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy. And ideas are bullet-proof!
"He who fights monsters must see that he doesn't become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate how often I see this quote without attribution.
Also: "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move".
I'll read this phrase but I won't enjoy it
"Money can't buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a taxi than on a bus." - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German literary critic)
I changed the last word in the translation to bus for the US readers. It should be tram or streetcar but I assumed bus is more common and widely known.
You have nothing to loose but your chains
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed."
"Long days and pleasant nights."
"I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that's how much faith I have in humanity."
I live on a one way street. The amount of vehicles that zoom by in the wrong direction is ridiculous
"Do you think... God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created, here on Earth? "
Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.
I thought this was his character in Con Air
The chinese poem "The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions"
Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
I wouldn't label it as "the greates sentence ever", rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.
Despite all our accomplishments, we all own our existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
I found it somewere on the Internet and can Not forget it.
I read that too. Good one.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
I am reading this, but I am not enjoying it, and I thought you should know
"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse"
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes
"I have a hawk and it's trained to kill cops"
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