Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 73

"Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

“The fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing left to lose.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “Herrenvolk”

"I would consider it my duty to help your release from this world."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill what he stands for, not unless you break his spirit. That’s a beautiful thing to see.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “The Beginning”

“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant”
- “Lord Edrington” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “The Wrong War”

“Don’t unlock doors your not prepared to go though.”
- “Mr. X” from “The X Files” in “Herrenvolk”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
- “Captain Sawyer” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “Mutiny” (taken from “King Henry” from “King Henry IV Part 2”, by William Shakespeare, Act III, scene i)

“Living a long life can be a mixed blessing.”
- guy from “The X Files” in “Our Town”

“It''s not history that concerns me, Horatio. It''s the future. It''s far more uncertain.”
- “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in "Mutiny”

“The certainty... becomes a comfort that allows you to move on.”
- “Bill Mulder” from “The X Files” in “Colony”

"A hit, a palpable hit."
- “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in "Retribution" (taken from “Osric” from “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ii)

“Darkness can hide a multitude of sins.”
- “Dana Scully” from “The X Files” in “Episode”

“Poor Horatio, so quick to give, so slow to accept the simplest gift.”
- “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “Retribution”

“You won’t find many people at their boss''s grave who aren’t dancing on it.”
- “Fox Mulder” from “The X Files” in “Shadows”

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- “Well Manicured Man” from “The X Files” in “The Blessing Way”

“What is a death omen if it isn’t a vision of our mortality?”
- “Fox Mulder” from “The X Files” in “Leonard Betts”

“Yeah, I had a preying mantis epiphany and as a result I screamed.”
- “Mulder” from “The X Files” in “War of the Coprohages”

“Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it.”
- “Dana Scully” from “The X Files” in “Herrenvolk”

“If people were to know of the things I know, it would all fall apart.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “One Breath”

“This is war, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You can not make an omelette without breaking an egg. Every cook will tell you that.”
- “Colonel Mustard” from “Clue”

“A dream is a question to an answer we haven’t yet learned how to ask.”
- “Mulder” from “The X Files” in “Aubrey”

“Well, what are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?”
- “Professor Plum”
“No, just death. Isn’t that enough?”
- “Mrs. Peacock” from “Clue”

“The Spirit is the Truth.”
- John 5:07, engraved on Scully’s tombstone

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."
- "Napoleon Bonaparte" from "Hornblower During a Crisis" by C.S. Forester

“Chacho’s Chicken. Good people good food.”
- sign in a town of cannibals from “The X Files” in “Our Town”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
- “someone or other” from “Hornblower During a Crisis” in “The Last Encounter” by C.S. Forester

“Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “Anasazi”

“Life was a succession of pills that had to be swallowed"."
- “Horatio Hornblower” from “Hornblower and the ‘Atropos’”, by C.S. Forester, Ch. 3

“I’m in the game because I believe what I’m doing is right.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “One Breath”

“If variety was the spice of life, thought Hornblower, his present existence must be an Oriental curry."
- “Horatio Hornblower” from “Hornblower and the ‘Atropos’”, by C.S. Forester, Ch. 14