mrnice’s Submitted Quotes

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.

I knew in my heart by pure logic that any man who calls himself a religious leader and owns more than one suit is a hustler as long as there is someone in the world who has no suit at all.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right.

''Life" wrote a friend of mine, "is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends.

“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.

Evey Hammond: Where did you get all this stuff?
V: Oh, here and there, mostly from the Ministry of Objectionable Materials.
Evey Hammond: You stole them?
V: Oh, heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor; I merely reclaimed them.

Creedy: We have guns.
V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.

All I know is that nothing moves faster than the speed of light, so you may as well relax.

A West Country man,of whom I'd never heard, confessed to murdering me and burying me beneath a motorway bridge near Bristol.

It was up to Don how he pronounced his name. But I knew I would pronounce it differently. I was about to become Mr Nice.

The journey is the thing.