I don't want to get political or start a debate on the rights and wrongs of the present conflict in Ukraine but it has produced to note worthy quotes, that I imagine will live on for a long time after the war itself has been concluded.

Russian ship go fuck yourself.

and

I don't need a ride, I need ammunition.

I don't see how that could be memorable.

"Ebenezer hesitated. ' ’Tis a great step.'

' 'Tis a great world and a short life!' replied Burlingame. 'A pox on all steps but great ones!'

'I fear me what Father would say, did he hear of't.'

'My dear fellow,' Burlingame said caustically, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moments sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!'"


From: The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth

"A lie can travel half way around the wold while the truth is putting on its shoes."

-Mark Twain

“[L]et us remember that our knowledge of the world begins not with matter but with perceptions. I know for sure that my pain exists, my “green” exists, and my “sweet” exists. I do not need any proof of their existence, because these events are a part of me; everything else is a theory. Later we find out that our perceptions obey some laws, which can be most conveniently formulated if we assume that there is some underlying reality beyond our perceptions. This model of [a] material world obeying laws of physics is so successful that soon we forget about our starting point and say that matter is the only reality, and perceptions are only helpful for its description. … But in fact we are substituting [the] reality of our feelings by a successfully working theory of an independently existing material world. And the theory is so successful that we almost never think about its limitations…”

-Andrei Linde

"if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
-Dorothy The Wizard of Oz