"...I break the silence now because I want the facts known. If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged by the truth."
-Raistlin Majere; Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I have used this quote in profile descriptions and such since early 2006 as it has a very powerful meaning to me.
"There's a kind of mathematics that goes along with saving people's lives. You find yourself running the figures without even realizing it, like a medic on a battlefield. This patient has no chance of surviving. That one does, but only if you let a third die."
-Harry Dresden; Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Cicero never understood thieves, really. Take someone's things before you kill them? And they call me crazy..."
-Cicero; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
-Frank Herbert; Dune series
