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"I wanted what any father wants for his son--Hope. Happiness. A future of never wanting or regretting something he could never have again..." ~ Bruce Wayne (Scott Beatty, Batman: Gotham Knights # 45)
"I have learned that anytime someone says 'go here!'...go the other way." ~ Gwen Stacy (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"Sometimes--even while you're in the act of trying something, you know deep down you're going to fail. But you go ahead anyhow." ~ Richard Parker (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"Don't let other people blame you for what they do to themselves." ~ Richard Parker (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"You're going to find that there are people in the world--people who you are going to look at and say: why is this person like this? Why did this person do that to themselves? And I swear to you, if you stare at them for fifty years...you'll never understand why they are the way they are." ~ Richard Parker (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"And it is, it's a mess. People everywhere reacting without thinking. Lashing out. They don't even know why. Everyone trying to be more than they are--which would be fine if they actually earned it, but more and more--it isn't the case . . . Never for a second do they actually try to be better. They just want to appear better. They want to be special without going through the trouble of actually earning it. And if you have millions of people running around like this...well...then what do you have? What kind of world is that?" ~ Richard Parker (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"Kid, you had a rough day. Everyone has them. And when you do--do what I do--You ask yourself: Anybody's life better because of what I did today? If the answer's yes...then stop your whining. If not, well, do better tomorrow." ~ Nick Fury (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"We seem dead set on turning ourselves into little monsters, don't we? Wonder why that is? It's all the rage. All of a sudden. And all of us, every one of us, is sooo busy running around, trying to beat each toher to the finish line--that no one notices the big sign from God that says: Stop-messing-with-my-stuff." ~ Dr. Curt Connors (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"Yeah, well...Einstein wasn't trying to invent the atomic bomb. Just kind of worked out that way." ~ Dr. Curt Connors (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover vol. 3)
"I am so sick of this--this compromise. Everyone is soooo willing to bend over and look the other way. When does this happen exactly? During college? After college? When you turn thirty? When do you just give up? To the point where you can actually look me in the eye and say 'Sure he murders, but he's got good qualities, too.'?" ~ Peter Parker (Brian Bendis, Ultimate Spider-Man # 48)
"Sure, I coulda wallowed over one lousy break instead o' facin' th' world. An' some days, I still do. I backslide. And yer gonna do that, too. It's hard not ta. Yer gonna get lost in th' bad. But so long as ya got folks around who love ya, ya gotta remember tomorrow c'n always be better." ~ Thing (Mark Waid, Fantastic Four vol. 2: Unthinkable)
"They say depression is anger without enthusiasm." ~ Johnny Storm (Mark Waid, Fantastic Four vol. 2: Unthinkable)
"There aren't any guarantees in this life. But that doesn't mean you have to live it in misery." ~ Susan Richards (Mark Waid, Fantastic Four vol. 2: Unthinkable)
"Safety ain't all it's cracked up to be. Not if ya live a life worth th' risks." ~ Thing (Mark Waid, Fantastic Four vol. 2: Unthinkable)
"I think that may be the supreme capacity of the human soul...to put pain behind it, to begin anew." ~ Bruce Wayne (Mike W. Barr, Batman: Year Two)
"Crusaders are like that. They always think they can change the world..." ~ Bruce Wayne (Mike W. Barr, Batman: Year Two)
"Those who knowingly protect evil...must suffer the same punishment as those who commit it!" ~ The Reaper (Mike W. Barr, Batman: Year Two)
"For years I forced myself to be a nice guy--makes my gut churn to think of it--and now I just can't get the damn niceness outta me! . . . What am I? Am I ever gonna be the butt-kicker God meant me to be? Not carin' about nothin' or nobody--can I do that?" ~ Guy Gardner (Gerard Jones, Guy Gardner Reborn # 2)
"But when you gotta do something...you give it everything. No doubts. No softness. No nothin'." ~ Guy Gardner (Gerard Jones, Guy Gardner Reborn # 3)
"Faith, it is said, can move mountains. An unshakable belief in something intangible. There is no greater power in this world." ~ Priest (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"But power needs to be tempered with wisdom if it is to be used well." ~ Priest (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"What mission? What good have you done? You have had hundreds of years to make the world a better place. Instead, you tell people how to behave in their most private moments--while befriending some of the world's most heinous dictators. You use the ignorance of peasants as a tool to keep them in your thrall--while doing nothign to improve their plight!" ~ Thor [to Priest] (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"Your path is not your father's. Your path is your own, but you must be the one to chart the journey through the wilderness of your soul." ~ Odinforce (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"Think less of yesterday. Concentrate on tomorrow." ~ Odinforce (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"God knows we're an imperfect people. We've made so many mistakes that it's amazing we ever made it out of the caves. But we survived. We learned from our mistakes." ~ Mike Alexander (Dan Jurgens, Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"It's been said that desperate times call for desperate measures. Unfortunately, desperate measures and reasonable measures aren't necessarily the same. When a lifetime of work has been rendered irrelevant...and dreams of the future erased...unfathomable, irrational solutions suddenly become plausible." ~ Dan Jurgens (Thor, Lord of Asgard: Spiral)
"Sometimes detective work is like finding your eyeglasses. They're always in the last place you look, because after that, you've found them." ~ Superman (Jeph Loeb, Batman # 619)
"Men have never needed an excuse. Murder is part of the mortal world." ~ Thor (Mike Grell, Iron Man # 64) [Thor: Gods on Earth]
"Hate is a starting place. Lots of ways you can go from there. Lots of places it can take you." ~ a ghost-woman (Mike Carey, Hellblazer # 186)
"Anger makes things seem easy. Go out, fix the bastard, feel better. Go home. If only." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"Sometimes people are just themselves, not what other people hope they'll be." ~ Kit (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"But something else we do, we all try to buck fate. Right down to the last drop of blood, we struggle all the way. Stubborn friggers." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"Because we're all scared . . . We're scared of losing the little worlds we've hacked out for ourselves, and if we see someone trying to take them away from us...that's great. We don't have to be scared anymore. We can hate. [...] Of course, the liberals make their films and so on--searing indictments of the stupidity of racism, with clever plots and metaphors that drip with insight...and people say 'Yes! It is wrong to hate a man for the color of his skin!' And then they go down to the pub, and two minutes later, they're telling Paki jokes again." ~ Patterson (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall." ~ Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing
"D'you know the best way to kill a man? To make it hurt the most? To twist the knife in his heart and soul, and laugh when he screams and dies? You put the blade in his best friend's hand...and you kill the poor bugger with love." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"They think I'm mad--I think they're right--The pit opens behind me, the pit that 's always waiting--doesn't matter if I crawl out, I know I'll fall back in--just a matter of time..." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"Bollocksed everything, just 'cos I can't handle that closeness. 'Cos I'm afraid of a word...Just one little word...L...O...V...E..." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing)
"And that's about all you can hope for: that, in the death, you do your best to be human. Do your best to do things right." ~ John Constantine (Warren Ellis, Hellblazer: Haunted)
"There aren't any fucking rules. There's just doing the right thing by people--and not." ~ John Constantine (Warren Ellis, Hellblazer: Haunted)
"Yeah, but friends are important . . . It's friends remind you who you are." ~ Matt (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"You do some pretty stupid things when you're not thinking straight, don't you? Maybe you get pissed at a party, and you tell the girl you've always fancied how you feel about her--which ruins everything, of course. Or maybe, goaded beyond endurance by your mate with the big mouth, you proceed to fill said orifice with your fist. Whatever. What I did was say 'Up yours' to the Devil, and then give him the finger. Which is really about as stupid as you can get, if you ask me." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"Yeah...Look, don't ever be sorry, son. Regrets aren't worth a bugger." ~ Matt (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"And to be mortal is to be stupid, proud, conceited--and ultimately pathetic." ~ The First of the Fallen (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"An' I found a religion of my own. You think about it, now...when you're gathered round a table in a pub with good friends an' good drink an' good chat...why in the name of God would you want to go to church?" ~ Brendan Finn (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"They [Friends] sheltered me, gave me refuge, kept me sane. Warmth and friendship and two fingers to the demons at the door." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"I don't even know if I like my life at the moment, but I'm not sodding letting go of it until I find out." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"Few people really think about dying...paranoids worry about it without really understanding it. Victims of fatal accidents and murder don't have time to think. You only really think about it if you take the time to. And you only take the time if you know it's going to happen." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"I walk my path alone...who would want to walk with me?" ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits)
"I'm not haunted by those who came before me...I'm honored by them. My life's work has been for them...and the world is better for it. What have you done?" ~ Superman (Joe Kelly, Action Comics # 805)
"We didn't choose to be what we are. And it could be argued that this life chose us. We live it. With all its changes and challenges. Obstacles. Disappointments. Failures. Its successes. Its joys. I have no idea where I'm going to be tomorrow. But I accept the fact that tomorrow will come. And I'm going to rise to meet it." ~ Donna Troy (Judd Winick, Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day [collected volume])
"All creatures are fated to die from the moment of birth." ~ Hfuhruhurr (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"Life is to be valued no matter what form it might take!" ~ Superman (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"Amazing how God creates Scientists--who in turn recreate God." ~ Cleric (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"I must die, whatever I do...none of us live forever." ~ Superman (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"For intolerance--be it of science or faith--kills!" ~ Cleric (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"Nothing can be put above honor--Nothing! Honor is All! It survives--when even Life has fled!" ~ Draaga (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"We do what we can live with, I guess." ~ Lois Lane (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"There is no respect for a ruler who flaunts his own laws!" ~ Draaga (DC Comics, Superman: Exile)
"We do it every time we stare in the mirror. We judge and analyze ourselves by our reflection. Our opposite image." ~ Zoom (Geoff Johns, Flash # 200)
"You can't change history [...] You have to keep running forward. Learn from your mistakes." ~ Barry Allen (Geoff Johns, Flash # 200)
"Being a hero isn't about being honored. It's about taking the gifts we've been given and helping as many people as we can." ~ Barry Allen (Geoff Johns, Flash # 200)
"You let your pals off with some ridiculous bloody things, sometimes. Dodgy remarks. Ropey ideas. Frig it, it's one of the things friendship's about...and maybe you see some've the bad stuff in yourself. And you keep your mouth shut." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"There's always one place lower you can go. Always." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"You don't accept death! You don't humanize it! And it's NOT your FRIGGING FRIEND! 'Old Man Death'! Listen to yourself! I've been with this squadron since France, Boy. I saw ten of my men go down to those yellow-nosed bastards. I SAW DEATH. It's not your friend. It's a twisted, coiled, ugly little length of dogshit and you fight it to your last bloody drop--otherwise you're nothing. Otherwise--why did you even bother in the first place?" ~ Squadron Leader Grant (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"All my life...one way or another...I always thought I had it all worked out. Even how to die. To give up and pull the great black blanket around me, finally admitting--Yeah, it's too much. I can't win. I quit. [...] And I knew I was wrong." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"There's always somewhere lower you can go...But if you do...Why'd you even bother in the first place?" ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"But that's life, innit? Ups and downs, swings and roundabouts, looking around corners for whatever turns up...You play the cards you're dealt..." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"To be told from an early age that you are a sinner, to believe that you have done wrong and that you do so every day in the eyes of the Lord: that is the essence of guilt. In the Catholic church, we have honed it to a fine art. For a few, impressionable souls--even in a liberal age--it is a difficult thing to forget." ~ Father Tolly (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Tainted Love)
"You may think a person needs good looks and charm and muscles to get through this life...but in the end, it's love that really counts." ~ (Aunt) May Parker (Paul Jenkins, Spectacular Spider-Man # 1)
"Yeah...but promises are made of fine china--they seem like they're worth something, but they're brittle, fragile. Easily broken." ~ Peter Parker (Paul Jenkins, Spectacular Spider-Man # 1)
"Love is a kind of magic--but only if it's freely given. It can't be forced...by magic or otherwise!" ~ Superman (Superman: the Man of Steel # 56)
"Science and research should never be regarded in terms of benevolence or malevolence! The only thing that matters is discovery itself!" ~ Dr. Cheryl Kimble (Dan Jurgens, Superman/Aliens)
"It makes you wonder...that special space in your mind...is it half-full? Or half-empty?" ~ "Dale" (Joe Casey, The Adventures of Superman # 617)
"We all share the need to connect...the need to step outside of ourselves and see things from a different perspective." ~ "Dale" (Joe Casey, The Adventures of Superman # 617)
"One can only see what one wants to see." ~ "Doloris" (Joe Casey, The Adventures of Superman # 617)
"An' isn't that what everyone wants to take to the future, anyway? Just the good bits of the past?" ~ Brendan Finn (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Damnation's Flame) |
