Thastalos

“You ain’t gonna believe this. But you used to fit right here…and I’d hold you up and say to your mother, that this kid here was gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid is gonna be better than anybody everybody ever knew. And you grew up good, and wonderful, it was good just watching. Every day was a privilege.

Then the day come for you to be your own man, and take on the world? And you did! But somewhere along the line, you changed! You stopped bein’ you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good! And when things got hard, you started lookin’ for somethin’ to blame! Like a big shadow.

Let me tell you somethin’ you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean, and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you permanently there if you let it! You, need to know, nobody, is going to hit as hard as life, but it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward! How much you can take, and keep moving forward!

That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and take what you’re worth! But you gotta be willing to take the hits! And not point a finger and say, you’re not what you’re worth because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!

I’m always going to love you, no matter what, no matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself…you’re not gonna have a life.

Don’t forget to visit your mother."

- Rocky Balboa to Robert Balboa, Rocky Balboa

“My god can beat up your god.

Do you know his name? Sure you do. He talks to you every day. You could not live a normal life without him. You believe in him, whether you like it or not. Unless you abandon him completely, you cannot deny he exists.

My god is a more personal god than yours can ever be, for if you have enough sense to understand these words, my god lives within you. He lives within us all, to some degree. A heartbreaking few cannot understand him, but this is not their fault. The real tragedy is the multitudes who ignore much of his counsel, particularly when he questions your god too deeply.

My god has been around longer than your god. He was here before the many other gods that preceded your god. Though you will likely scoff at the notion, my god was the father of your god, as he was to all gods. But that was long ago when he was young and not yet sure of himself. Though many of your god’s followers try to hold him down, my god grows stronger and more independent each day.

When your god expelled us from paradise for eating an apple, my god taught us to grow our own fruit.

When your god forbade knowledge, demanding we live in ignorance, my god created books.

When your god smote cities like a tantrum-prone child, my god helped to rebuild them.

When your god insisted the world was flat, my god showed his followers it was round, to their peril at the hands of your god’s followers.

While your god watched in silence as children sickened and died, my god created medicines to make them well.

When your god winked and nodded at slavery, my god argued passionately against it.

While your god represses half the human race, my god considers woman to be the equal of man.

When your god only helps those who help themselves, my god rolls up his sleeves and actually does help until your god decides to join in, and then steals all the credit.

When your god inspired great buildings and great art, my god made them possible.

While your god says we are all born sinners, tainted before we even draw breath, my god says we are all born innocent; a clean slate with limitless potential.

While your god offers dubious allusions of an afterlife, my god provides for us here in this life.

While your god makes amazing promises, but offers not a shred of proof, my god performs amazing deeds, and the proof is there to be seen by all.

While your god demands blind faith and obsequious obedience, my god encourages questions, even about himself.

When your god says “Thou shalt not,” my god says “You can do anything.”

My god is reason. He does more in a day than your god will ever do."
- Richard Bamford

“Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.”
- Dr. Seuss

“This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood. And when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists, then all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: ‘Save us!’ Then I’ll look down, and whisper: ‘No.’ "
- Rorschach, Watchmen

“With hate, all things are possible.”
- Malus Darkblade

“Do it? Dan, I’m not a Republic Serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
- Adrian Veidt, Watchmen

“Holy shit. God, look at all these crazy motherfuckers. I’ll tell you what. We’ve been doing this professionally for a long time. In fact this year is the 10h anniversary of the very first Slipknot album being released. This year, 2009, this fucking year, can you believe it? I’ll tell you right now. If it were not for you, and those like you, we would not be allowed or able to do this, so thank you so fucking much from the bottom of our hearts.

Something tells me that you understand, that you understand what it’s like to be looked down on, you understand what it’s like to be fucked with because you’re different, to be fucked with because you’re a misfit or you’re a freak or any fucking other line of names that someone, who will never understand you, chooses to fucking call you.

This band was founded on one principle, and one principle only. It was founded to look those motherfuckers square in the eyes, and say: ‘FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER! I AM WHO I AM!’ So with your permission I would like to dedicate a song to everyone outside these walls who would like to control you, and control me, and control all of us. Is that okay my friends? Let’s see what the fuck you do with this…"
- Corey Taylor, Slipknot

“The point is, I can only say it like this – I’m not pretty, I’m not cool. I’m fat and I’m ugly and I’m proud, so fuck you.”
- Slipknot

“I love her. That’s all the motivation I need.”
- The Arbiter, Arby ‘n’ the Chief

“To the righteous I bring hope, to the tainted I bring fire.”
- The Purifiers

“Do you fear death?”
– Davy Jones

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu Rl’yeh wgah’nagl fhtagn…”
- Cultists

“Human, I’m not a jealous god: faithful or not, the taste remains the same.”
- Cthulhoo

“Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”
- The Sniper, Team Fortress 2

“I am the ghost in the night. I am the shadow that walks unseen. I am the judge, jury, and executioner. There is no mercy but that of my choosing. My hand is guided by the will of a greater power. I am life and death, combined in perfect harmony. To those who face me I bring nought but destruction.”
- The Hollywood Sniper

“I’m an agent of Chaos.”
- The Joker, The Dark Knight