I can see the Son of Man descending
And the sword he swings is brighter than the dawn
And the gates of H-- will never stand against Him
So in the night my hope lives on

--Andrew Peterson "In the Night (My Hope Lives On)"

If you've got something to say, now is the perfect time to keep it to yourself

Col. Chester Philips Captain America: The First Avenger

I am not dying for six college credits!

Darcy, Thor

"Ha! It'll take more than being tied to a lit keg of explosives and tossed into a pit of acid filled with mutant, acid-resistant flying piranhas equipped with flame throwers and battle-axes while mechanical, missile-launching morris dancers armed with liquid nitrogen harpoon guns are overhead, riding giant, rabid killer bees with side mounted death rays to kill Othar Tryggvassen!"

Lady Haleth, I love Andrew Peterson! And that song is one of my especial favorites.

Here are a couple of my latest favorites.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it in tact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Until the sea of glass we meet
At last completed and complete
When tide and tear and pain subside
And laughter drinks them dry . . .

Switchfoot "Restless."

We just can't get used to being here
Where the ticking clock is loud and clear
Children of eternity, on the run from entropy . . .

Andrew Peterson, "Day by Day."

I know many people who worry about the parts of the Bible that they don't understand. The parts of the Bible that worry me most are the parts I do understand--Mark Twain

I'm kind of obsessed with movie quotes, especially Disney. Here are a few of my favorites:

“Oh, that reminds me! Last year at the Salmon Run, my friend Bucky totally dared me, but I’d heard about this other cub who stuck his tongue to an iceberg, and then he started to float away, and so to save him, they had to like rip off his tongue, and so now he hath to tog like thith all a time…”

-Koda, Brother Bear

“You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”

-Uncle Iroh, Avatar: the Last Airbender

“Fly away, Stanley. Be free!”

-Fillmore, Cars

“Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives…I’ll smash it with a hammer! It’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say! … Or, to save on postage, I’ll just poison him with this!"

-Yzma, The Emperor's New Groove

“I give up. I see no point in living if I can’t be beautiful.”

-Howl, Howl's Moving Castle

“Trolls exist! They steal your socks, but only the left ones. What’s with that?”

-Gobber, How to Train Your Dragon

“We look like bad guys. Incompetent bad guys!”

-Lucius, The Incredibles

“Why are you initiating physical contact with another woman?”

-Eska, The Legend of Korra

(Yes, this is from Book 2! If you haven't seen it yet, go see it!! )

“He’d make a very handsome throw rug. Just think, whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him.”

-Zazu, The Lion King

Okay, that's probably enough for now... And that's only a small sampling of my collection of movie quotes. I've got tons more.

Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on

Nick Fury, The Avengers.

Love Yzma's quote, by the way.

But paradise is locked and bolted. We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.~ Heinrich von Kleist

Stupid people are dangerous- Katniss Everdeen

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high-The Princess Bride

Pay heed to the tales old, It may well be that they alone keep in memory what was once needful for the wise to know -The Lord of the Rings

"the only people with whom you should try to get even are the ones who have helped you"

I finally understand that I do not write, I leak- Tyler Knott Gregson

Would you like an adventure now or shall we have our tea first?-Peter Pan

"Why is it that we’re ranked No. 2 in The Economist magazine’s list of the best places to be born? We’re second only to the Swiss in terms of life expectancy and the capacity to get a job and live a decent life, and yet all I see in the media is people complaining about how bad everything is in Australia." - wil Anderson

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Elrond The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

. . . I charge thee, fling away ambition!
By that sin fell the angels, how can man
The image of his Maker, hope to profit by it?

Shakespeare, Henry the 8th

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn.

Oh, give her the usual. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep . . .

Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast

If home is where the heart is, than my home is where you are

Relient K "I'm Taking You With Me."

My heart is broken as I cry
Like so many times before
But my eyes, are dry before I leave the floor
Oh Lord I try (Oh Lord I try)
But this time, Jesus, how can I be sure
I will not lose my follow-through
Between the altar and the door?

Casting Crowns "The Altar and the Door."

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me

Shakespeare, Richard the Second.

The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed / The shadow of your face

Same as above

Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions

G.K. Chesterton.

You have crushed beneath your heel the vile serpent
You have carried to the grave the black stain
You have torn apart the temple's holy curtain
You have beaten Death at Death's own game
Hosanna

Andrew Peterson, "Hosanna."

"Of course it is happening in your head, Harry, but why should that mean it isn't real?"

Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.

Bruce Wayne- Batman Begins

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth

Lou Gehrig

There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that

Captain America- The Avengers

Once and for all, I adjure you to set me free. By all fears and all loves, by the bright skies of Overland, by the great Lion, by Aslan himself, I charge you—

Rilian- The Silver Chair

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us

Gandalf- The Fellowship of the Ring

Here are a bunch of Marvel movie and TV quotes:

The world is full of evil and lies and pain and death, and you can’t hide from it—you can only face it. The question is, when you do, how do you respond? Who do you become?" -Agent Coulson, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ep. 12 "Seeds"

You've just destroyed the world's most dangerous sandwich!--Agent Fitz, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ep. 9 "The Hub"

The world is crazier than I am--Dr. Erik Selvig, Thor: The Dark World.

Ta-da!--Loki, Thor: The Dark World

. . . there is only the next mission. For the first time in my life I know what I have to do. And I know--in my heart--that it's right--Tony Stark, Iron Man

Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the doughnut!-- Nick Fury, Iron Man 2

You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, but there's one thing you can't take away: I am Iron Man--Tony Stark, Iron Man 3

These people are innocent. Taking their lives will accomplish nothing. So take mine--and end this. Thor, Thor.

A strong man, who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power. A weak man knows the value of strength--and knows compassion--Dr. Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger.

Loki: How desperate must you be, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?
Nick Fury: You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't control, you talk about peace, and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate--and you might not be glad that you did.The Avengers

Fandral: Our dearest friend banished, Loki on the throne, Asgard on the brink of war, and you've managed to consume a side of beef, two roast boar, six pheasants, and two casks of ale! Shame on you, don't you care?
Volstagg: Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!

Thor

I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.

Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger.

I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him. Dr. Bruce Banner, The Avengers

These ones are behind spoiler tags because they're from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone:

That's all for now.

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong..."
G.K. Chesterton, The Napolean of Notting Hill

"Shake it don't break it," resident of mine

"You were not asking very loudly," Beckett, Castle

"What kind of world do you want/think anything...
Don't be shy, the satellites can look the other way"
Five for Fighting, World

"If you're gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough," my dad...this has since become my life motto

"Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." Dr Who, Vincent and the Doctor. Best description of depression EVER.

Jesus, I'm a broken man
A broken man, a broken man
Jesus, I'm a broken man
Can you make me whole again?
~ Spiritual, Trocadero

Hey. - Simmons
Yeah? - Grif
Do you ever wonder why we're here? - Simmons
It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it? Why are we here? Are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God, watching everything, with a plan for us and stuff? I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night. - Grif
*beat*
What? I meant why are we here, in this canyon! - Simmons
Oh ... uh ... yeah. - Grif

You don’t need to treat me like that. I’m not crazy, okay? I’m totally and completely sane. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go blow up this dead body. - Agent Washington

Normally, I would agree with Simmons. But that would mean that I would agree with Grif! Therefore, I will simply grunt ambiguously. - Sarge

Don't be so quick to judge, Grif. Shotgun to the face can be a plan in a variety of situations. For instance, watch how quickly it cures insubordination! - Sarge

Hey, you dropped a grenade. - Tucker
That's not one of mine. Caboose, pick that up. - Church
I'm not allowed to carry grenades, remember? Because of that one exploding time? Which… was no one’s fault. - Caboose
Well, I didn’t drop it! Tucker, count yours. - Church
I have a readout on my helmet, dummy, I don't need to count. - Tucker
Oh, right. Well, it has to be somebody's. - Church
*beat*
...Somebody threw a grenade at us, didn't they? - Tucker
Yeah, we probably should've figured that out sooner. - Church

How do you feel? - Tucker
Like running over each and every one of you. - Epsilon
So, about like normal. - Tucker
Pretty much, yeah. - Epsilon

Tucker! Tucker! Come here! Tell me I'm cool! Tell me I'm lazy and I don't play by the rules! - Grif
What? - Tucker
*wailing* I DON'T WANT A SOUTHERN ACCENT! - Grif
*beat*
We're dealing with some issues. - Simmons

~Red vs. Blue, multiple seasons

I ran across this quote by George MacDonald recently and liked it a lot. It's a good thing to remember.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers; if I may not, let me think how nice they would be, and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.

Oh, I like that one, Rose.

Here are two of my recent favorites:

• Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side—Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl by N. D. Wilson[/*xurivqki]
• In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought—G. K. Chesterton[/*xurivqki][/listxurivqki]

We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton