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- Thoughts from an Enthusiast
One of the most satisfying things about this site is the feeling you get when your fingers fly across the keys as if they're moving on their own. It is as though your brain bypasses your arms and taps directly into your fingertips. When it sounds like you're fake typing, but the words forming on the page make sense!
Dilios - 300
- More Than 30 Years
It's been more than thirty years since the wolf and the winter cold. And now, as then, it is not fear that grips him, only restlessness. A heightened sense of things. The seaborn breeze, coolly kissing the sweat at his chest and neck. Gulls cawing, complaining, even as they feast on the thousands of floating dead. The steady breathing of the 300 at his back, ready to die for him without a moment's pause. Everyone of them ready, to die.
Dilios - 300
- Goodbye My love
"Goodbye my love." He doesn't say it. There's no room for softness... not in Sparta. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. Only the hard, only the strong.
Jeremy Clarkson
- Bugatti Veyron
The Bugatti Veyron is quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created... At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.
The Architect - Matrix Reloaded
- The Problem Is Choice
There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her and the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.
Agent Smith - Matrix Reloaded
- Purpose
But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist. It is purpose that created us. Purpose that connects us. Purpose that pulls us. That guides us. That drives us. It is purpose that defines. Purpose that binds us. We are here because of you, Mr. Anderson.
Agent Smith - Matrix Reloaded
- I Killed You
I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die. With a certain satisfaction, I might add. And then something happened, something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I am no longer an agent of this system.
Morpheus - The Matrix
- Agents
I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and speed are still based in a world built on rules. Because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Morpheus - The Matrix
- Rabbit Hole
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
Morpheus - The Matrix
- You Can't Explain
Let me tell you why you're here. You know something. What you know, you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it your entire life. There's something wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Betty Friedan
- Aging
Aging is not 'lost youth', but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.
- Rumi
- Potential
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Eric Thomas
- Pain Is Temporary
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.
George R. R. Martin
- Desire - Lord Varys
Not me. When I see what desire does to people, what it's done to this country, I am very glad to have no part in it. Besides, the absence of desire leaves one free to pursue other things.
Varys (Character by George R. R. Martin)
- Influence
Influence grows like a weed. I tended mine patiently, until its tendrils reached from the Red Keep all the way across to the far side of the world, where I managed to wrap them around something very special.
George R. R. Martin
- Storms Come and Go
"I became an excellent thief, and I soon learned that the contents of a man's letters are more valuable than the contents of his purse." - Lord Varys.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Charge of the Light Brigade
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the Valley of Death rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the Valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. Into the Valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Wahcowski Sisters
- Conciloor Hammon - Matrix
There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.
Wahcowski Sisters
- Merovingian - Matrix
What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control.
