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QUOTES FOR CHARACTERS I HAVE NOT DONE BEFORE. HO HO.
Yamamoto:
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
-- Bill Shankly
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-- Storm Jameson
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
-- James Baldwin
"It is dangerous to be sincere, unless you are also stupid."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
Colonello:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
-- Voltaire
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
-- George Santayana
"Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it."
- Anonymous
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
-- Woody Allen
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
--Dave Barry
Natalia:
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
-- John Ruskin
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself."
-- Andre Malraux
"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
-- Madonna
"The only cure for grief is action."
-- George Henry Lewes
Shinji:
"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!"
-- Oprah Winfrey
"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
-- Ray Bradbury
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
-- Don Marquis
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
-- Dorothy Bernard
"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
-- Euripides
Darc:
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
-- Richard Gere
"They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."
-- David Assael
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
-- Dale Carnegie
"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."
-- Andre Malraux
Ling:
"It's important to begin a search on a full stomach."
-- Henry Bromel
"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."
-- Saul Bellow
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
-- Walt Whitman
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
-- William Blake
Raiden:
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." "
-- Charles M. Schulz
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-- Matt Groening
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
-- Quentin Crisp
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
-- Woody Allen
Yamamoto:
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
-- Bill Shankly
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-- Storm Jameson
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
-- James Baldwin
"It is dangerous to be sincere, unless you are also stupid."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
Colonello:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
-- Voltaire
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
-- George Santayana
"Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it."
- Anonymous
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
-- Woody Allen
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
--Dave Barry
Natalia:
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
-- John Ruskin
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself."
-- Andre Malraux
"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
-- Madonna
"The only cure for grief is action."
-- George Henry Lewes
Shinji:
"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!"
-- Oprah Winfrey
"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
-- Ray Bradbury
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
-- Don Marquis
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
-- Dorothy Bernard
"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
-- Euripides
Darc:
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
-- Richard Gere
"They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."
-- David Assael
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
-- Dale Carnegie
"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."
-- Andre Malraux
Ling:
"It's important to begin a search on a full stomach."
-- Henry Bromel
"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."
-- Saul Bellow
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
-- Walt Whitman
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
-- William Blake
Raiden:
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." "
-- Charles M. Schulz
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-- Matt Groening
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
-- Quentin Crisp
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
-- Woody Allen