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Spoon

Spoon, a term for an eating utensil that is considered an inherently funny word, has been featured in many quotations.

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 * Alphabetized by author or specified source

 * Ugh, he spooned me
 * Random guard, after being hit in the stomach with a ladle in Aladdin

 * High diddle diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jump'd over the Moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such Craft, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
 * Anonymous nursery rhyme, "Hi Diddle Diddle" in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765)
 * Variant: Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the fork ran away with the Spoon
 * The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) edited by Opie and P. Opie

 * Better take her to the White Queen, she'll be safe there. Spoon.
 * The March Hare, in Alice in Wonderland

 * She came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon.
 * The Beatles
 * What did the fork say to the spoon? Who was that ladle I saw you with last night? That was no ladle that was my knife!
 * The Joker
 * Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?
 * Algy Longworth, in Bulldog Drummond

 * And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon When you coming home Dad? I don't know when — we'll get together then, Son, You know we'll have a good time then.
 * Harry Chapin, in "Cats in the Cradle"

 * Check it out, Guys. I got a Springfield spoon for my spoon collection... if it weren't for my spoons, I'd probably go insane.
 * Adam Clayton of U2 in an episode of The Simpsons

 * You there! What the hell is this?
 * Father Jack, in Father Ted

 * You spoony bard!
 * Tellah, in Final Fantasy IV

Must be a spoon.
 * A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
 * Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10

 * Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I did an original sin. I poked a badger with a spoon.
 * Eddie Izzard

 * They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
 * Edward Lear, in The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)

 * The Dolomphious Duck, who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner with a Runcible Spoon
 * Edward Lear, in Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures

 * We found this spoon sir.
 * Sergeant, in Life of Brian

 * Mike Wazowski: I think I have a plan here: using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild. James P. Sullivan: … Spoons.
 * Dialogue from Monsters Inc.

 * A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon,
 * Motorhead, in Stone Dead Forever

 * Sheriff of Nottingham: Locksley! I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon. Guy of Gisbourne: Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe? Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's dull, you twit! It'll hurt more.
 * Dialogue in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

 * Just when I thought things couldn't get any better... he spooned me.
 * Carrie, Sex and the City

 * Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
 * William Shakespeare in The Comedy of Errors; original orthography: Marrie he must haue a long spoone that must eate with the diuell

 * That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
 * Red, in The Shawshank Redemption

 * Australian: "You call that a knife? This is a knife!" Bart Simpson: "That's not a knife; that's a spoon." Australian: Alright, alright, you win. I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
 * The Simpsons This should have an episode citation added.

 * Spoon!!!
 * Battle cry of The Tick

 * I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
 * Substitute, The Who

 * There is no spoon.
 * "Spoon Boy" in, The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers, indicating that all perceptions of external objects as entirely separate entities are constructs of the mind; this was also quoted in response to the rather grisly death of Private Witherspoon in the horror film Dog Soldiers (2002).

 * They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.
 * Brian Wilson and Mike Love, in "Catch a Wave" for The Beach Boys

 * The spoon came alive with spoon-ness and the ball with ball-ness and the block with block-ness, and the girl laughed.
 * Roger Zelazny in Lord of Light

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Battle of Warsaw (1920)

The Battle of Warsaw was a decisive Polish victory in 1920 in the Polish–Soviet War. Poland, on the verge of total defeat, suddenly rebounded and defeated the invading Red Army, then pushed it back. It was, and still is, celebrated as a great victory for the Polish people over Russia.

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 * As a result of the Soviet hopes of world revolution or, at least, ideological expansion into Central Europe, the Polish victories near Warsaw between 16 and 25 August 1920 were a key incident in the Cold War. The Battle of Warsaw ended the drive west by the Soviets, a drive which had already led them to capture the cities of Minsk and Vilnius the previous month. Had the Soviets succeeded in 1920 and established a sister republic in Poland, on the model of the French Revolutionaries in Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands, then Communism would have had an opportunity to become more strongly grounded.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)

 * In this episode, as with the post-1945 conflicts more classically seen as part of the Cold War, the struggle between the Great Powers was indirect: even in the Korean War (1950–3), there was no declaration of war or full-scale conflict. In 1920, the French provided the Poles with useful supplies and military advice, but there was no commitment of troops. Instead, the Poles benefited from their ability to gain the initiative, and then defeat separately the Soviet forces whose coordination was handicapped by mutually-distrustful Communist generals and by lengthy supply lines. Advancing over a very wide front and reliant on long supply lines, the tired Soviet forces lacked depth and nearby reserves. This was a very different situation to their successful fighting advance across this territory against the Germans in 1944. Prior to the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, Soviet strength seemed particularly potent and threatening, and it was unclear whether it would be possible for the Western powers to stop Soviet expansion short of full-scale war. What containment (to employ a later term) could mean in practice was unclear. In the event, after the battle, the Poles, in turn, advanced to within ninety miles of Kiev, before agreeing an armistice. The eventual Treaty of Riga, in March 1921, left Poland with some territory in modern Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, and with a frontier far to the east of modern Poland.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2014)

 * While all these untoward events were taking place, amid a ceaseless chatter of well-meant platitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, a new and more terrible cause of quarrel than the imperialism of czars and kaisers became apparent in Europe. The Civil War in Russia ended in the absolute victory of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Soviet armies which advanced to subjugate Poland were indeed repulsed in the Battle of Warsaw, but Germany and Italy nearly succumbed to Communist propaganda and designs. Hungary actually fell for a while under the control of the Communist dictator, Bela Kun. Although Marshal Foch wisely observed that “Bolshevism had never crossed the frontiers of victory,” the foundations of European civilisation trembled in the early post-war years. Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. While Corporal Hitler was making himself useful to the German officer class in Munich by arousing soldiers and workers to fierce hatred of Jews and Communists, on whom he laid the blame of Germany’s defeat, another adventurer, Benito Mussolini, provided Italy with a new theme of government which, while it claimed to save the Italian people from Communism, raised himself to dictatorial power. As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into even more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction.
 * Winston Churchill, The Second World War Volume I: The Gathering Storm (1948), ISBN 0-395-41055-X, pp. 13-14

 * If Charles Martel had not checked the Saracen conquest at the Battle of Tours, the interpretation of the Koran would be taught at the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet." "Had Pilsudski and Weygand failed to arrest the triumphant advance of the Soviet Army at the Battle of Warsaw, not only would Christianity have experienced a dangerous reverse, but the very existence of Western civilisation would have been imperilled. The Battle of Tours saved our ancestors from the Yoke of the Koran; it is probable that the Battle of Warsaw saved Central and parts of Western Europe from a more subversive danger – the fanatical tyranny of the Soviet. "On the essential point, there can be little room for doubt; had the Soviet forces overcome Polish resistance… Bolshevism would have spread throughout Central Europe and might well have penetrated the whole continent.
 * Edgar Vincent D'Abernon

 * General Peter Wràngel's Caucasian Army had captured Tsaritsyn that June, but by January 1920 it was clear that the war was effectively over. The Allies cut off their aid to the Whites. One by one the generals fled or, like Kolchak, were captured and executed. By the summer of 1920 Lenin felt confident enough to export the Revolution westwards, ordering the Red Army to march on Warsaw and confidently talking of the need to 'sovietize Hungary and perhaps Czechia and Romania too'. Only their decisive defeat by the Polish army on the banks of the River Vistula halted the spread of the Bolshevik epidemic.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 149-150

 * Again and again, Poles rose against their occupiers, only to be savagely put down, with their finest young men slaughtered or marched to Siberian prisons. Then, at the end of the Great War, Poland suddenly reappeared on the maps. What did the Poles do? They immediately saved Western civilization yet again. In the now-forgotten "Miracle on the Vistula," a patched-together Polish army turned back the Red hordes headed for Berlin. One of history's most brilliant campaigns, it saved defeated Germany from a communist takeover. Poland's thanks? The slaughter of World War II. Then the Soviet occupation.
 * Ralph Peters, "Shafting the Poles", originally published in the New York Post, December 23, 2003.

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Talk:Advice

I love some of these quotes. I'm going to use them to try to convince my smothering Freecycle mods to back off a little!

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Got myself an id!!! --Egstcm 00:38, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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 * "Never ignore an advice or a comment before thinking longly whether it is helpful for you." ~ Nguyen Huy Dung

Could not find who he is via google, no wp or wq article. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:28, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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 * There is no cramming for the test of life.
 * Madeleine Albright.

 * When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
 * Josh Billings.

 * When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
 * Erma Bombeck.

 * Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
 * Gordon R. Dickson.

 * Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
 * Dr. J. A. Holmes.

 * He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
 * Karl von Knebel.

 * In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
 * Solon.

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 * Advice is generally much better received when the advisor is entertaining.
 * Anonymous from http://advice.com

 * Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
 * Danish proverb

 * A woman's advice is a poor thing, but he is a fool who does not take it.
 * Spanish proverb

 * Never give advice — a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.

 * Good advice is better than bad advice, if you know the difference.

Suggested merger between "advice" and "advise"

 * Support Keeping these two articles apart creates confusion. --Spannerjam (talk) 13:55, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support as they stand. I think there can be a distinction between advising (the act of giving advice) and the advice given, but that is not really a distinction made between these pages as they stand. BD2412 T 15:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

 * Support Mdd (talk) 01:15, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I tagged this for merger because to advise is to give advice: it is the same subject, and quotes should not be categorized by their grammatical characteristics. In general, I believe the titles of theme pages should be nouns, as used in this sentence:
 * "These are quotations about     ."
 * However, regarding BD2412's remark about "the advice given", I do not think it is practical to collect examples of advice under this sort of heading. They should be placed in articles about the subjects on which advice is given. E.g., "Never eat anything bigger than your head" is pretty good advice, but it would belong in an article about Eating. Compare the Discourse article, which contains quotations about discourse, not examples of discourses. Examples of advice would be too broad and amorphous a criterion for a coherent theme article. Therefore, noting that the quotations in the Advise article are not about advisement in general, but are bits of particular advice or remarks about specific bits of advice, I recommend that we Redirect the title to Advice without merging the contents. ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:27, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

 * On closer review of the actual quotes, I agree that very few of them seem to be about either the topic of advice, or the act of advising. These are quotes that just happen to contain the word "advise", and are no more suited to the topic than a page of quotes containing the word "the" on a page title "the". BD2412 T 21:19, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Both article is now merged here -- Mdd (talk) 18:36, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306 – 373) was a Syriac deacon, prolific Syriac-language hymn writer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians, and especially Syriac Christians, as a saint.

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 * The hutzpah of our love is pleasing to you, O Lord, just as it pleased you that we should steal from your bounty.
 * Hymns on Faith 16:5

 * O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, Thy servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for blessed art Thou to the ages of ages. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
 * "Prayer of Ephrem" as translated in The Lenten Triodion (1978) by Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware, p. 69
 * Variant translations:
 * O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, your servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for you are blessed for ever and ever. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
 * As translated in Who's Holding the Umbrella (1984) by William E. Yaeger, p. 70

 * Thy possessions have made thee a hollow image; they have ruined thee and left thee.
 * in A Spiritual Psalter (2004), p. 267

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Henri de Lubac

Henri de Lubac (20 February 1896 – 4 September 1991) was a French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century.

Catholicism (1938)
Catholicism, translated from the fourth French edition (1947) by Lancelot C. Sheppard (London: Universe Books, 1962)
 * The supernatural dignity of one who has been baptized rests, we know, on the natural dignity of man, though it surpasses it in an infinite degree.[…] Thus the unity of the Mystical Body of Christ, a supernatural unity, supposes a previous natural unity, the unity of the human race.[…] Was it not shown […] in Genesis where it was taught that God made man in his own image? For the divine image does not differ from one individual to another: in all it is the same image.[…] Whence comes the notion, so beloved of Augustinianism, of one spiritual family intended to form the one city of God.
 * Ch. I. "Dogma", pp. 1–3

 * The Church, without being exactly co-extensive with the Mystical Body, is not adequately distinct from it. For this reason it is natural that between her and it—as within the Mystical Body itself between the head and the members—there should arise a kind of exchange of idioms: Corpus Christi quod est ecclesia. "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." [Acts 9:5] "He who beholds the Church", says Gregory of Nyssa, "really beholds Christ."
 * Ch. II. "The Church", p. 26
 * Corpus Christi quod est ecclesia (Christ's body, which is the Church) is quoted from Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 268, 2. Cf. Col 1:18.

 * In the interests of refuting such chaotic concepts as those which see a divine Church only in a "Church of the saints", an entirely invisible society which is nothing but a pure abstraction, we must not fall into the contrary error. The Church "in so far as visible" is also an abstraction, and our faith should never make separate what God from the beginning has joined together: […] in ecclesiology just as […] in Christology, […] dissociation of the divine and the human […] is fatal. If necessary, the experience of Protestantism should serve us as sufficient warning. Having stripped it of all its mystical attributes, it acknowledged in the visible Church a mere secular institution; as a matter of course it abandoned it to the patronage of the state and sought a refuge for the spiritual life in an invisible Church, its concept of which had evaporated into an abstract ideal.
 * Ch. II. "The Church", pp. 27–28

 * Christian tradition has always looked on heaven under the analogy of a city. Coelestis urbs Jerusalem.[…] It is a city compact like a single house; a close-knit society, gathered like one family under a singe roof […] but at the same time extended to the uttermost.[…] Among those who are received within this heavenly city there is a more intimate relationship than subsists among the members of a human society, for among them there is not only outward harmony, but true unity […], the very consummation of unity, both the image and the result of the unity of the Divine Persons among themselves.[…] The Christian mysticism of unity is trinitarian. The likeness, which in every created soul must be the completion of the divine Image, is not that of a Spinozist God; it is that of a God of Love, of the God whose being is Love.
 * Ch. IV. "Eternal Life", pp. 49–51

 * Christianity, by those doctrinal aspects that we have just emphasized as well as by others, brought something absolutely new into the world. Its concept of salvation is not merely novel in comparison with that of those religions in existence at the time of its birth. It is a unique phenomenon in the religious history of mankind. For what do we witness outside Christianity whenever a religious movement rises above the domain of sense and effectively transcends the limit of nationality? In every case, though appearances may differ considerably, the basis is the same—an individualist doctrine of escape. It was this that inspired ancient mysticism, whether it sought to escape the vicissitudes of the sub-lunary world or to pass over the outer circle of the cosmos and to penetrate into the realm of intelligible Essences or even beyond.
 * Ch. V. "Christianity and History", p. 63

 * Flight, Escape: that in fact was Plato's dictum regarding the soul that acknowledges in itself a principle superior to the world. Plotinus, in his turn, recommended to his disciple the "flight of the alone to the Alone", and then Porphyry expiates on the setting free and the withdrawal of the soul. The same terms may be encountered in the religious philosophies of India.[…] With the Buddhist, too, it is the same act of negation, whether he denies the existence of the world or believes in the reality of his present wretchedness; and he who practises charity to a degree that sometimes reaches the sublime in the last resort relinquishes even that. Asanga, the great mystical doctor of the Mahâyâna, when he starts to map out the path of his bodhisattva's ascent from "world" to "world" until he reaches the very highest state, which is that of Nirvâna, as a matter of course describes it as a whole series of evasions: niryàna; so much so that it has been said that Buddhism's only God is Escape.
 * Ch. V. "Christianity and History", pp. 63–64

 * The moral value of the different systems varies very considerably. So does their spiritual depth; but in this connection the achievements of Greek thought, though it reached a very high level, cannot be compared with the heights of Indian thought. Sometimes understanding is imprisoned in myth, and sometimes it is turned inwards in pure reflexion—or what seems to be. Yet running all through these many differences there is always agreement about the basis of the problem and its presuppositions: the world from which escape must be sought is meaningless, and the humanity that must be outstripped is without a history.
 * Ch. V. "Christianity and History", pp. 64–65

 * Outside Christianity humanity can doubtless be raised in an exceptional manner to certain spiritual heights, and it is our duty—one that is perhaps too often neglected—to explore these heights that we may give praise to the God of mercies for them: Christian pity for unbelievers, which is never the fruit of scorn, can sometimes be born of admiration. But the topmost summit is never reached, and there is risk of being the further off from it by mistaking for it some other outlying peak. This is a fact noticed by many missionaries. It is often more difficult—though in the last resort more worthwhile—to bring to the fullness of truth souls whom a relatively more developed religion has stamped with its mark. A critical judgement, not of individual souls—for their precise situation in relation to the Kingdom is never known save to God alone—but of objective systems as found in a society and as offering material for rational examination, shows that there is some essential factor missing from every religious "invention" that is not a following of Christ.[…] Outside Christianity all is not necessarily corrupt; far from it,[…] but what does not remain puerile is always in danger of going astray, or, however high it climbs, of ultimate collapse. Outside Christianity nothing attains its end, that only end, towards which, unknowingly, all human desires, all human endeavours, are in movement: the embrace of God in Christ.
 * Ch. VII. "Salvation through the Church", pp. 111–112

 * It becomes increasingly clear that […] the Christian's watchword can no longer be "escape" but "collaboration". He must co-operate with God and men in God's work in the world and among humanity.
 * Ch. VII. "Salvation through the Church", p. 122

 * No one has the right to say with Cain: "Am I my brother's keeper?" [Gen 4:9] No one is a Christian for himself alone.
 * Ch. VII. "Salvation through the Church", p. 125

 * She is the Catholic Church: neither Latin nor Greek, but universal.[…] Nothing authentically human, whatever its origin, can be alien to her. "The heritage of all peoples is her inalienable dowry." In her, man's desires and God's have their meeting-place, and by teaching all men their obligations she wishes at the same time to satisfy and more than satisfy the yearnings of each soul and of every age; to gather in everything for its salvation and sanctification.
 * Ch. IX. "Catholicism", p. 156
 * "The heritage of all peoples is her inalienable dowry" is quoted from Clement of Alexandria.

 * To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself. It is the form which humanity must put on in order finally to be itself.
 * Ch. IX. "Catholicism", p. 157

 * It is […] the very opposite of a "closed society". Like its founder it is eternal and sure of itself, and the very intransigence in matters of principle which prevents its ever being ensnared by transitory things secures for it a flexibility of infinite comprehensiveness, the very opposite of the harsh exclusiveness which characterizes the sectarian spirit.[…] The Church is at home everywhere, and everyone should be able to feel himself at home in the Church. Thus the risen Christ, when he shows himself to his friends, takes on the countenance of all races and each hears him in his own tongue.
 * Ch. IX. "Catholicism", p. 157

 * The Church, trusting in the Holy Spirit that leads her, trusts also all the peoples that she comes to free. That is no sign of naïveté on her part. She […] knows […] that all men are one in community of their divine origin and destiny; and that suffices to give her confidence in face of all the theories engendered by pride and egoism.[…] Besides, does not the only efficacious way to bring out the hidden truth and to avoid extinguishing the good that would break forth lie in a systematic desire to study sympathetically those forms of thought that are most remote from us, and in this study to pay particular attention to privileged cases, however rare they may be? It is at its highest reaches that humanity must be understood; the plains—or the depressions—will always be explored soon enough.
 * Ch. IX. "Catholicism", p. 158

 * The Church's method is not syncretist any more than it is naïve. Syncretism is artificial, generally the work of rulers or literary men, and presupposes declining faith. It is an insult to the living God. In the energetic language of the prophets, syncretism is fornication. In the spiritual order it is barren, like the political system or philosophy from which it springs. It lowers and vulgarizes all the elements it combines[…]. But here again the history of the Church can teach us. Christianity rejected Gnosticism, a representative of the syncretist system; but such an uncompromising boldness has not hindered her in carrying out her work of assimilation with a breadth of vision that is more clearly manifest every day.
 * Ch. IX. "Catholicism", pp. 158–159

 * Protestantism, whether primitive or modern, Lutheran or Calvinist, orthodox or liberal, generally occurs as a religion of antitheses—and liberal theology is not the least marked by this characteristic. Either rites or morals, authority or liberty, faith or works, nature or grace, prayer or sacrifice, Bible or pope, Christ the Saviour or Christ the judge, sacraments or the religion of the spirit, mysticism or prophecy … but Catholicism does not accept these dichotomies and refuses to be merely Protestantism turned inside out.
 * Ch. X. "The Present Situation", p. 169 (ellipsis in original)

 * [D]oes not the mutual love of two beings complete them both, and call forth in each of them higher and more irreducible qualities? That is, in proportion as this love tends the more to true unity, because it is more spiritualized, so are these qualities more fully, more strictly personal.
 * Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 179

 * In the One there is no solitariness, but fruitfulness of life and warmth of presence.[…] In the all-sufficient Being there is no selfishness but the exchange of a perfect Gift. The created mind, though so faint a copy of him who is, is none the less a reproduction in some sort of his structure—ad imaginem fecit eum—and practiced eyes can discern the stamp of the creating Trinity. There is no solitary person: each one in his very being receives of all, of his very being must give back to all.[…] Thus it can also be said, to exalt its inner richness and to make clear its character as an end, which all others must acknowledge, that "a person is a whole world", but it must also be added at once that this "world" presupposes others with which it makes up one world only.
 * Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 182
 * Ad imaginem fecit eum (In the image [of God] he made him) is quoted from Origen, De principiis III, 6, 1. "A person is a whole world" is quoted from Jacques Maritain, Humanisme intégral (1935), p. 17

 * The Holy Spirit that Christ promised to send […] creates in man new depths which harmonize him with the "depths of God" [Job 11:7].
 * Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 186

 * Henceforth the idea of human unity is born. That image of God, the image of the Word, which the incarnate Word restores and gives back to its glory, is "I myself"; it is also the other, every other. It is that aspect of me in which I coincide with every other man, it is the hallmark of our common origin and the summons to our common destiny. It is our very unity in God. If, then, there took place in our past some "decisive" event that […] opened out to us the perspective of "the joy of an essentially universal union", we shall know where such an event took place.[…] Anyway, it is a fact that nowhere outside the influence of Christianity has man ever succeeded in defining its conditions; he has always wavered between the imagining of an individual survival in which beings remain separated and a theory that absorbs them in the One.
 * Ch. XI. "Person and Society", pp. 187–188
 * The "decisive" event opening out the perspective of "the joy of an essentially universal union" was hypothesized in various works by Léon Brunschvicg.

 * We realize that the men of each generation could possess no more than the science of the time, that revelation makes no difference here: its light is of another order. Neither the biblical writers nor the Fathers nor the medieval theologians could have known, obviously, about Neanderthal man or Sinanthropus, nor could they have had precise knowledge about the Chinese. But the material narrowness of their view was no hindrance to its formal breadth. And it is this latter which is proper to Catholicism; however remote the horizons which modern science discovers, Catholicism spontaneously incorporates them. Discoveries in astronomy, at first so disturbing, have resulted in the freeing of Christian thought from the confines of an ancient cosmology, ill-suited to its genius; and what was at first taken to be a dogmatic crisis was only a wholesome surprise. Thus we can be assured that the fresh conclusions forced upon us by our history and our empirical origins will help us, after their own fashion, to probe more deeply into the meaning of our Catholicism, in its concern for the whole history of man and its solicitude for each member of the human family.
 * Ch. XII. "Transcendence", pp. 196–197

 * [A] transcendent destiny which presupposes the existence of a transcendent God is essential to the realization of a destiny that is truly collective, that is, to the constitution of this humanity in the concrete. Otherwise it is not really for humanity that the sacrifice is made: it is still, despite assertion to the contrary, for other individuals, who in their transitory outward form contain nothing that is absolute and do not stand for any essentially higher value than those who are sacrificed to them; in the last resort it is all for one generation of humanity—the last—which is yet no greater than the others, and which will pass away like the others.[…] "I have no wish to sacrifice myself to that terrible God called future society," exclaims a character in a contemporary Russian novel. That is a very natural protest, possibly inspired by egoism, but one which cannot be reproved by reason. For no unselfishness can be sustained in face of an absurdity, and to require a worthy object for one's sacrifice is not to transform the sacrifice into self-interest.
 * Ch. XII. "Transcendence", pp. 197–198
 * The sentence cited, from a "novel by Rikachov", was quoted in L'Ordre nouveau (March 1, 1937).

 * In a non-transcendent society, the reduction of man to his "social relationships" will work inevitably to the prejudice of his personal interiority, and will beget a tyranny of some kind, however novel. Moreover, have we not already the right to think, short as is our experience of this sort of thing, that it provides our analysis with its first confirmation? When Marx's followers eventually become aware of this, they will have no longer any inclination to extol that "total revolution" that they suppose themselves to have achieved in human intelligence before implanting it in society. They will have no longer any inclination to sing of their deliverance from "metaphysical agony" and from the "obsession of God". They will have to return to "those accursed eternal questions", as Dostoievski called them.
 * Ch. XII. "Transcendence", p. 203
 * The phrase "eternal questions" comes from Ivan Karamazov in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Book V: "Pro and Contra", Ch. 3.

The Eternal Feminine (1968)
The Eternal Feminine, translated by René Hague (London: Collins, 1971)
 * [S]ince being is analogical, we are quite correct in using the same words, in particular the word 'being', for both God and his creatures.
 * Part 1. "The Eternal Feminine", Ch. 4, p. 73

 * Pierre Teilhard was a consistent personalist. In his youth he may well have experienced the 'fascination of the impersonal and generalized' and confused them with the universal; but as soon as he began to develop his thought, he made a complete change of direction.
 * Part 1. "The Eternal Feminine", Ch. 5, p. 103

 * It is not the universal which takes on for us the appearance of the personal in order that it may make itself apprehensible by giving itself mythical expression; the universe does not become more or less personal and so acquire an added attribute. It is the personal which becomes universal, to the degree in which (subject to certain conditions) it realizes more profoundly its own specific character. Universality is the prerogative of the strongest personality. God, apart from whom nothing subsists, is pre-eminently the personal being, and it is for that reason that nothing subsists apart from him: even more, too, for that very reason, he is the 'personalizing' being. In becoming universal, Christ is not dissolved in the universe; he is the 'plasmatic principle' of the universe, he […] imposes his form on it.
 * Part 1. "The Eternal Feminine", Ch. 6, p. 118

 * A […] form of present-day secularism is activism, which discounts contemplation and all interiority.
 * Part 2. "Teilhard and the Problems of Today", Ch. 5, pp. 254–255, n. 54

Paradoxes of Faith (1987)
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987. Translations of Paradoxes (1946) and Noveaux paradoxes (1955)
 * Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme paradox.
 * Author's Preface, p. 8

 * The Gospel is full of paradoxes, by which the mind is at first troubled. The Savior teaches with great simplicity, yet he says also, "Blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me." And it is a question, at least, whether all substantial spiritual doctrine must not of necessity take a paradoxical form.
 * Ch. I. "Paradox", p. 13

 * Decadence, instability, disintegration, corruption, reversal of attitude, all that arises through the simple fact of one's going on existing without self-criticism, self-renewal, constant self-adaptation, without letting anything in one die, through the simple fact of gradually settling down in the vantage point one occupies, the good conscience one enjoys. Such is the permanent danger of all spiritual life. It is an inevitable deterioration which can only be overcome—and painfully at that—by a watchful mustering of strength—unless it be effortlessly vanquished by a wonderful gift of grace.… Whence the necessity of paradox: or rather the perpetual flavor of paradox that truth has, when it is freshly expressed, for the man who clings to a truth when it is in the process of turning into a lie.
 * Ch. I. "Paradox", pp. 14–15 (ellipsis in original)

 * Credulity, sectarianism, and sloth are three natural tendencies of man. Too often he canonizes them under nobler names.
 * Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 21

 * We must come to see that God is not so much the cause of moral obligation or the sanction of duty as the very substance of Good. Then what we call the moral proof brings us in one leap to the true God, revealing himself as God of Charity.
 * Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 24

 * The contact of a believer with a nonbeliever must take the form of a dialogue. The all-powerful action of pure sanctity alone is dispensed from it, since it is not bound by any law. But the dialogue will never get underway if it is not first a dialogue with myself.
 * Ch. III. "Witness", p. 36

 * Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
 * Ch. V. "Spirit", p. 58

 * The fear of falling a prey to error must never prevent us from getting to the full truth. To overstep the limit, to go beyond, would be to err through excessive daring; but there are also errors of timidity which consist precisely in stopping short, never daring to go any further than half-truths. Love of truth never goes without daring. And that is one of the reasons why truth is not loved.
 * Ch. IX. "Truth", p. 101

 * Everybody has his filter, which he takes about with him, though which, from the indefinite mass of facts, he gathers in those suited to confirm his prejudices. And the same fact again, passing through different filters, is revealed in different aspects, so as to confirm the most diverse opinions. Rare, very rare are those who check their filter.
 * Ch. IX. "Truth", p. 102

 * The most unbending thoughts are the most vulnerable to change.
 * Ch. IX. "Truth", p. 105

 * The denser the ignorance, the more enlightened it thinks itself to be.
 * Ch. IX. "Truth", p. 107

 * To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed; it is to cling to yourself, to have a morbid love of yourself, just as you are, that is to say, false. It is to refuse release.
 * Ch. X. "Man". p. 127

 * Nothing is more ingenious, more obstinate, nastier—indeed, in a sense, more clear sighted, than mediocrity harrying every form of superiority that offends it.
 * Ch. X. "Man", p. 136

 * There is nothing more demanding than the taste for mediocrity. Beneath its ever moderate appearance there is nothing more intemperate; nothing surer in its instinct; nothing more pitiless in its refusals. It suffers no greatness, shows beauty no mercy.
 * Ch. X. "Man", p. 137

 * If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity in our hearts? Or would it not too often be, perhaps, without our daring to say so, because the bone of contention, that is to say, the very substance of our faith, no longer interests us? Men of too familiar and too passive a faith, perhaps for us dogmas are no longer the Mystery on which we live, the Mystery which is to be accomplished in us. Consequently then, heresy no longer shocks us; at least, it no longer convulses us like something trying to tear the soul of our souls away from us.... And that is why we have no trouble in being kind to heretics, and no repugnance in rubbing shoulders with them. In reality, bias against ‘heretics’ is felt today just as it used to be. Many give way to it as much as their forefathers used to do. Only, they have turned it against political adversaries. Those are the only ones with whom they refuse to mix. Sectarianism has only changed its object and taken other forms, because the vital interest has shifted. Should we dare to say that this shifting is progress? It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions.
 * Ch. XV. "Faith", pp. 226-227

 * Though Dogma and theology are always intimately related and can never be separated, yet they are never entirely of the same stuff. Dogma is a vast domain which theology will never wholly exploit. There is always infinitely more in Dogma, considered in its concrete totality, that is to say, in the very Object of divine revelation, than in this "human science of revelation", in this product of analysis and rational elaboration which theology always is. The latter, in its very truth, will always—and all the more in that it will always be rationally formulated—be inadequate for Dogma; for it is indeed the explanation of it, but not the fulness. This weakness is congenital. True theology knows that. It does not confuse the orders.
 * Ch. XV. "Faith", p. 228

title: Henri de Lubac


text:
Julián Hernández

Julián Hernández, Spanish musician and singer, member of Siniestro Total rock band.

Quotes

 * Si el vino está bien, todo está bien, y si está mal, da lo mismo, con tal de que sea vino...
 * Translation: "If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine".
 * Note: taken by Rock de Lux magazine.

 * Yo no voy al cine, porque primero juzgo el 'making off'. Yo veo los 'trailers' y el 'así se hizo' en televisión. Con eso ya tengo bastante.
 * Translation: "I don't go to the movies, cause I first judge the making of. I watch the trailers and the making of in TV. That's enough for me.
 * Note: In an interview to Viernes de Evasión, El Correo newspaper.

title: Julián Hernández


text:
Legend of Mana

Legend of Mana is a Squaresoft game from 1999.

Dialogue

 * Bud: How ya doin', Cumin?
 * Cumin: Hey, Bud! You're alive!"
 * Bud: Of course!"
 * Cumin: Not 'of course!' If you don't breathe you'll die, right?
 * Bud: I was breathin'.
 * Cumin: So... Why were you breathin'?
 * Bud: You'll die if ya don't breath, right?
 * Cumin: So you were breathing 'cause you didn't wanna die, right? I bet you were saying... 'Ahh I don't wanna die! I gotta breathe! Ssss-haaa...ssss-haaa'
 * Bud: I wasn't sayin' that. So, how come yer alive?
 * Cumin: I live 'cause it's fun.
 * Bud: So yer sayin'... 'Whoa, life's so fun, I gotta breathe! Ssss-haaa...ssss-haaa'
 * Cumin: Yeah, that's right! You gotta problem with that?
 * Bud: Ahh, gimme a break...

title: Legend of Mana


text:
Vagrant Story

Vagrant Story (ベイグラントストーリー Beiguranto Sutorii) is a unique action RPG released for the PlayStation in 2000. The game, designed and distributed by Square Co., Ltd., features a focus on weapon modification and creation.

Ashley Riot

 * Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements.
 * Ashley Riot in the prologue.

Sydney
- Quoted from A.J. Durai
 * Most men complacently accept 'knowledge' as 'truth'. They are sheep, ruled by fear. But you are different. Always calm, detached. A smooth flow of thought into action. Indeed…It is almost as if…As if you had no soul. How do you do it? Body and soul are one…yet; yours are separated, like a child from the knight in his storybook.
 * Warping the minds of men and shepherding the masses has always been your church's domain. You lure sheep with empty miracles and a dead god.
 * Yet mark your savior well, for he is one of the demons that you so fear.
 * In my dreams, I see an evil tyrant's hands, which would choke the world. And he is the only one blind to his own folly.
 * You have seen demons walk the city streets, heard the cries of the dead and damned. You deny these things? Are they illusions?
 * A tyrant always dies alone, Guildenstern. Surrounded by silver-tongued leeches, he is utterly alone. He sows sorrow and reaps death.
 * The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men.

Miscellaneous

 * Mullenkamp is a pack of rogues hiding behind a priest's frock!
 * In the very, very beginning there is a scene showing a meeting between Ashley and several VKP members. One of the officers says this.
 * All because of this religious freedom! Too much freedom, too many gods. Let those cultist cur-dogs run loose, and they will bite you. Gods! While our Parliament cowers...
 * VKP Officer.
 * The only shield I see is the one coverin' your eyes.
 * In the Wine Cellars, there are two knights, Sackheim and Goodwin, inspecting a door locked by a sigil and a floating cloudstone. This quote is from their conversation.
 * The cold ones will not walk under the sun, but soon night will fall.
 * As Ashley tries to find his way around the town, he comes upon a detachment of soldiers guarding the streets. The captain and soldiers have a small conversation in which this quote is said.
 * An incomplete death's more than a VKP butcher deserves!
 * Father Duane, shortly before being killed by Ashley.
 * Y-Your cause...There is no...place for me...for our dreams..
 * Samantha, sacrificed by Guildenstern to complete his transformation.
 * The world does not want a savior.
 * Guildenstern, confronting Sydney.
 * All that was needed was fodder, and THEY would come to feed.
 * As Ashley is entering the Snowfly Forest, Rosencrantz catches up to him and provides a chilling insight as to the plot of the story.
 * Now the slowest dance begins, partner! ...'Tis a fine tomb we shall share!
 * Tieger at the end.

Conversations

 * Ashley Riot: Rosencrantz, was it? Your words bear much meaning.
 * Jan Rosencrantz: Please, my friend! I speak only the truth.
 * Ashley Riot: Yet, you have no evidence.
 * Jan Rosencrantz: For that, you must search.
 * Ashley Riot: [turns to walk away] I will cut you, next we meet. Leave the city before sundown if you value your life.

 * Commander Grissom: Where did he go?
 * Jan Rosencrantz: Through the wood, he says. You will follow him?
 * Commander Grissom: I must avenge the foul murder of my brother, Duane.
 * Jan Rosencrantz: Of course you must. But be wary, your foe is strong.
 * Commander Grissom: God is stronger.

 * Müllenkamp Cultist: You fools think the Dark will bend to you?
 * Commander Grissom: We are prelates of the Lord, scum. We are not here to bend aught, we are come to cleanse.

 * Callo Merlose: [discussing Sydney's intentions] It is sad...
 * John Hardin: What is?
 * Callo Merlose: Even if he can see the past and clasp the truth, how are we to know if he speaks it? If he can push us to believe anything, how do we tell truth from falsehood?
 * John Hardin: Why single him out? Everyone lies, surely you know that. Whether they are Dark sorcerers or corrupt clergy, they all lie, and we believe. Am I wrong?

 * Grissom: Please, a moment. My body is not... cooperating.
 * [he sees Ashley]
 * Grissom: Y-you!
 * Tieger: I am sorry, Brother. We cannot help you now.
 * Grissom: What... what is happening?
 * Neesa: Grissom, you have left this coil. The Dark has filled you; you have joined the cold ones!
 * Grissom: [begins to tremble] An ironic fate. I suppose it is better than the endless wand'ring... but to happen upon your own corpse!
 * [Grissom then falls to his knees, buries his head in his hands. He screams.]
 * A Voice: Kill... Kill them all.
 * Grissom: Wh-who speaks?
 * A Voice: It is bitter...lonely... They must join us... Kill them!
 * Grissom: The walls! The walls speak?
 * A Voice: Your friends, they dream of killing you. They would steal your body! Kill! Kill them, Grissom!
 * [at that, Neesa and Tieger move towards Grissom, weapons drawn]
 * Grissom: My flesh... is mine, and mine alone!
 * [Grissom suddenly leaps over their heads and runs out the door]
 * Neesa: [running after him]
 * [shouts]
 * Neesa: Grissom!
 * [Ashley tenses as Teiger decides whether to deal with him or run after his brother, but then follows Neesa out of the Undercity. Ashley relaxes.]

 * Romeo Guildenstern: The Dark is formless and invisible. It invades the body like a plague, an unseen visitor. Yet those it taints become... undying.
 * Commander Samantha: "Undying?"
 * Romeo Guildenstern: Yes. They do not die.
 * Commander Samantha: But... he did die. Turned to dust. Leaving no trace. Did he not?
 * Romeo Guildenstern: What is death? Is it the ruination of the flesh? Surely, that is death, but it is only one facet of the truth. True death... is the death of the soul.
 * Commander Samantha: And theirs is not a true death?
 * Romeo Guildenstern: Even should their flesh crumble to decay, their souls will wander eternally. The undying of Leá Monde do die. But, it is... an incomplete death.
 * Ashley Riot: [listening from afar] "An incomplete death"...
 * Romeo Guildenstern: Trapped in purgation, they yearn for life. Thus, they seek bodies without souls. And the "corpses that walk" are born. They say the howl of the north wind is the cry of the wandering souls.

title: Vagrant Story


text:
Xenogears

Xenogears is a role-playing game developed by Square Co., Ltd.

Fei Fong Wong

 * “Dreaming... I was dreaming... Perhaps it may have been but a long forgotten memory... A dream... A memory... Things remembered when one is asleep... Things forgotten when one is awake... Where the deepest layers of memories become the outmost layers of one's dreams... Which are reality? Which are illusions? One cannot tell until one awakes... Or perhaps they are, at the same time, both truth and fiction... A vast nebulous... With no boundaries... An emptiness equivalent to my own existence... I dreamt such a dream... A long... Never-ending, dream.”
 * “That dream changed me... That dream was the catalyst for me to resolve what my purpose was. I think I know now... What I have to do... That long, long memory of a dream... Perhaps it was the memory of my soul...”
 * "But its power goes beyond what is necessary... Does one really need the power to destroy everything?"

Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten

 * "It's because they are weak that they can develop kindness... and never look down on people"
 * "I'm not a holy woman of any sort. I'm just a regular woman. I get angry... I cry... I laugh... Although at times I can resent others, I also know how to love others... Loving whole masses of people at times... and loving just one person the rest of the time... I am in supreme bliss when I am embraced by the man that I love. Giving what I have to him, and receiving what he gives to me, we become one flesh... That is the moment when I am most at peace. It is my prerogative as a woman to simply want to save the man that I love!"
 * "All of you, want to be loved... needed by someone, so we look to others... By ourselves, we are lonely, so we try to draw together to live... That's what it means to be human...That's how people live. A single hand cannot clap."
 * "Our paths may be different, but our goals are the same."
 * "That long, long memory of a dream... That perhaps was the memory of my soul..."
 * "It's okay not to feel `whole'. Even if you feel only partly complete, if you repeat that enough, it'll eventually be `whole'. A part... is better than zero."
 * "Those words I was unable to convey... That day... That time... Those thoughts I was unable to carry out... Words and thoughts... The connection between the two... Without words, thoughts cannot be conveyed... Without thoughts, there are no words... They are both as vital as each other...They can never be divided... Like the wings of angels..."

Krelian

 * "Why did she have to be sacrificed? Is god dead...? Is he just not there...? Maybe god never existed to begin with! ... If god doesn't exist in our world, then... I will create god with my own hands! Sophia... Please guide me... I will destroy all false pretences of love, for you..."
 * "Show me this power of humans! Show me this -love- that you say can make you independent of god..."
 * "Did you really think you were acting on your own free will? You are all just part of the system."
 * "God? Who said you'd be God? What impertinence! We are humans. We were created to be terminal interfaces of God. It is the same for you, who were once humans. Man cannot become God. We can only entrust ourselves to God."
 * "What may be an eternity to man is a moment for god. I have no need for hesitation."

Grahf

 * “Those eyes were what scared me. When I looked in your eyes I saw myself staring back.”
 * "Even if I go to hell, I will live to the end of this world. And if the world does not come to an end... I will destroy it with my own hands!"
 * "I am Grahf, the seeker of power. Doth thou desire the power? My fist is the divine breath! Blossom, o fallen seed, and draw upon thy hidden powers!! Grant unto thee the power of the glorious 'Mother of Destruction'!"
 * "The absence of wrath is an impediment to utilizing your true strength."
 * "Yes, we will destroy god. That is our purpose... That is our destiny!"
 * "That was... a most delightful scream. I was enthralled by it. Nothing is more beautiful than a scream of death."

Citan Uzuki

 * "Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not."
 * “Using power or being used by power…is that not a problem of the heart…? If humans do not use their power for wrong it can be a good thing…I believe such power can help us.”
 * "But now is not the time to contemplate morals. It is not fair for me to be the only innocent one."
 * "...Sigurd... I think you need to rethink your method of disciplining..."
 * "Resistance is futile. It only makes things painful."
 * "Under total surveillance there is no need to bear the price of maintaining one's identity. They simply live under the delusion of being an individual. What could be easier?"
 * "It's much easier to be given a place to belong than to make one for yourself."
 * "Do you think you could possibly be a little more subtle? With the amount of activity you have stirred up, you could even wake up the dead."
 * "Childish ideals pale when placed before reality"
 * [On a sign infront of his house] "Injured, sick, all accepted. Come on in! But no deceased please."
 * "Let us just say that I know a little more about the world than most do."
 * "The time is getting closer. We do not have time to lolly gag around."
 * "Fei, that is the toilet. The exit is that way unless...you cannot hold it?"
 * "Feels like you have sacked your saccules, and tickled your utriclese enough for one life time!"

Bartholomew "Bart" Fatima

 * "The people who started the war are the reason. And unless you fight to get rid of the reason, nothing will ever change. I fight to get rid of the reason."
 * [after firing a 'Bart-missile' at his own crew] "Well, it was really impressive from this side, believe me!"
 * "It's harder to bring in an animal alive than dead."
 * "Of course, I'm Bart the Immortal, whaddya trying to say...?"
 * [When reffering to Rico] "Well, if it isn't Dr. Uzuki and his... errh, very big friend."
 * "They all look the same. Let's start hitting some buttons."
 * [When talking to Shakhan]"Punk......"

Others

 * "Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ?" - Hammer
 * "Power is everything here! The powerless . . . the weak are just oppressed!!" - Hammer
 * "There are some things you just can't explain with the word... fate. You're just going to have to see it with your own eyes." - Taura
 * "Because of your existence, I was discarded...! I was determined to be the representative of god... Having the might of the Emperor. I was destined to be the ultimate existence, having the power to exercise absolute control over all! But... I lost it all... because of you!!" - Ramsus
 * "That's because... I am... [turns 120°] a man... [turns 120°] of the sea!" - Captain
 * "Live by one's strength, stand by one's own feet. It's sad but true, but the weak will be weeded out." - Kelvena
 * "Overprotection only stunts the will to be independent" - Kelvena
 * "Even nameless soldiers have lives to live, remember that!" - NPC
 * "Don't miss out on the greater joys of life by being distracted by the small inconveniences" - unknown
 * "Is there anyone who is almost dead, with no arms and legs, or in need of an abdominal operation?...No one? Well, that's depressing." - Yggdrasil's Nurse
 * [while elevating the Yggdrasil with his psychokinetic powers] "That was interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating. Take it back!" - Id
 * "To be human is to be able to pick your own path in life..." - Erich
 * "If you can't even save your friends, then how could you save the world?" - Sigurd
 * "I am coming Solaris! Seibzehn and I shall be the dark wings which carry you all to your deaths!" - Maria
 * "Salvation by faith is something that everyone should have an equal opportunity at attaining" - Billy
 * "But, faith and god aren't things which are given to you from others, right? They are things you have to discover within yourself, and by yourself" - Jesiah
 * "We are orphans in this universe." - The Gazel Ministry
 * "If you just have faith the path for what you hope for will open" Sophia
 * "You appear to be looking forward, but in reality you're only looking downward. You're only looking at yourself. Like that, you will find nothing." Wiseman
 * "You shall be as gods" Deus (direct quote from Genesis 3:5 )
 * Stand tall, and shake the Heavens! Tagline
 * I am Alpha and Omega... The beginning and the end... The first and the last... - First lines of the introduction (direct quote of Revelation 22:13)

title: Xenogears