2016 in quotes

 Distrust the path of ease. Comfort leads to decadence. Every worthy thing is difficult.

What’s the point being an outlaw when you have responsibilities?

None of us is mere wave, we are each entire sea.

The whole world’s counting on us, no pressure and all. Except in my bladder.

Every struggle is an uphill, that’s why they’re called struggles.

I failed upwards, to the level of my incompetence.

Only blood types we care about are “inside the body” and “soaking into dirt”.

Sellainen joka ei voi elää luonnossa voi elää vain legendoissa.

Tappaa talossa ja puutarhassa vaan ei avaruudessa.

Paska ja kaali kulkee aina käsikkäin. Toinen panee alulle toisen. Perpetuum mobile!

Tässä onkin kyse politiikasta, ei vaginasta.

It’s trial and error and sometimes accidents
>Story of my life!

Get killed when I’m not babysitting.

Do something. It doesn’t have to be right, it just has to be something.

Brave man may fall, but he can never yield.

Never knew you have any luck left unless you push it.

Pahvi on paska pilvi.

Don’t eat candy off the ground and don’t fire random flamethrowers.

Everything you make is a story about you.

I call on you not to hate, because hate doesn’t leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you bind and closes all doors of thinking.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Does he come with a dictionary?

Bartender serves a wide variety of vodka or more vodka.

There is no shame in being afraid. We have all known fear. But do not run from it.

What’s required for something great to happen is a good plan but not quite enough time.

Is there a word for “terrified, yet oddly aroused?”
>If there is, it’s definitely German.

Teillä on nälkä, teillä ei ole kiire. Se on hyvä.

My love for you is pure love. I wouldn’t sully it by actually, y’know, doing anything about it.

Just don’t try to weld him together. It doesn’t work.

Ferns can be very aggressive.

I think I’ll go take a shower and try to turn back into a human.

This was home enough.

Thank you. Also, fuck you, but mostly thanks.

A grenade a day keeps the enemy at bay.

If you can hear them, but you can’t see them, you can probably grenade them.

He’s like talking to an electrical problem.

Listen, you gotta clear the room. If you don’t clear the room, the room eats you.

She had a good smile. Too young for him, but ten years ago he’d have been asking her if he could make her dinner around now.

Maanviljelyksestä sulatan vain pontikankeiton. Kaikki muu on ällöttävää.

I walked into a door.
>Is the door okay?
>>Not really, no.

And if I remember my lawschool latin, a steaming pile of horseshit.

Elämä jatkuu ja uudet kännit odottavat.

Minä elän. Taistelu loppuu kuolemaan, kaikki muu vain keskeyttää sen.

Keihäs on rikkaiden ase johon on pistetty köyhä kumpaankin päähän.

I drink to forget, but I can’t remember what.

If we only elected good men, we wouldn’t have any leaders.

All of us who are worthy spend our adulthood unlearning the follies of our youth.

You’ll be judged by what you succeed at, not by what you attempt.

Heitä ei voi voittaa, heidät pitää tappaa!

I don’t make threats, I make orbital bombardments.

Teitä vanhoja kettuja varmaa ihmetyttää, mutta olen tullut siihen lopputulokseen että tuulta vastaan kuseminen on tyhmää.

Mistä tänne saa värit päälle?

Jos ei seksiä niin oisko suklaata?

He was a friend when I needed one and when I least deserved one.

We’re going to die.
>Then die on your feet!

Can be used to pry open doors, chests, even the occasional reluctant ribcage.

Mirrors beg for mercy when you are around

Paljonko kello on?
>Nyt on perjantai.

It was as if I could hear and see everything and nothing could stop me.
And then I got shot.

Inveniam viam aut faciam. (I will find a way or make one)

The worst part about the seven deadly sins is that there aren’t enough of them.

Only two things should prostrate themselves; frightened animals and dying men. Anything else is surrender, and no filthier word exists in any human tongue.

Cowardice wasn’t the fear of death, cowardice is having something to lose.

If you can’t fix it with a hammer, the problem’s electrical.

Hope is the last thing a man feels before he dies.

Grinder and paint,
Make me the welder I ain’t.

A sucking chest wound is nature’s way of telling you that you’ve been ambushed.

I was a complete idiot. Now I’m just a partial idiot.

Sometimes, just sometimes, good things happen to bad welders.

If it was easy, somebody would have already done it.

Don’t worry, I’ve been offended by professionals.

Oispa pitsaa, kaljaa, kakkua ja kannabista.

Because airplanes don't need clothes to drop JDAMs

General consensus seems to be overwhelming firepower would probably kill a mythical creature.

Information spreads fast on earth, but in space no one can hear you genocide.

Nah, respiratory cancer, which is about 7 times more useful and fun than the ATF

If God had an engineering degree we'd have treads under our dicks

"No hill too steep, no bog too deep" We don't retreat, we just kick ass in the opposite direction.

What are the most potent biological and chemical weapons in existence?
>ur mum
>Shes a nag for sure but seldom kills.

It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water — with which it reacts explosively.

The only business I have on a dance floor is fighting my way across it to get to where the vodka lives.

If Trump is elected I am moving to Mexico. I heard that there will be a wall to keep him out.

Well, I can't see a reason why that would work.

It originally had a bunch of flat head screws, but as I always say "F**K flat head screws, this is the 2000's, not 18 dickity two"

...was alternating between wanting to murder someone and wanting to murder everyone

Fin stabilized for your pleasure!

There's only one thing in this world that I'm certain about: I actually can believe that it's not butter. God only knows whether or not this one has your name on it, but I wouldn't try anything unless you like the taste of vegetable oil in hell.

When in Rome, burn it.

“The difference between theory and practice is, in theory, there is no difference,”

Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering on an undertaking, I have meditated for long and foreseen what may occur.

When I took a decision or adopted an alternative, it was after studying every relevant–and many an irrelevant–factor. Geography, tribal structure, religion, social customs, language, appetites, standards–all were at my finger-ends. The enemy I knew almost like my own side.

Capability + Intent = Threat

You're shit at dying, you know that?

The Spanish are already mobilizing to reclaim Gibraltar
>Good. It's been too long since the Spanish Armada has seen the bottom of the ocean.

Juopot ei syö pullaa

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder

Would rather risk your feelings than anything else of you.

FDF: Toward glory, not necessarily victory, but glory is good enough.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Because they use magic and other mystical stuff to protect themselves whereas our defensive measures can be measured out in gauges, caliber and is the most potent expression of our will in lead, steel and copper.

The way the systems protect against tampering is by setting off the high explosives in a subcritical fashion. Anyone attempting this would find a lot of the plutonium in their lungs, which are now several feet away from other parts of their body, and on fire.

Can't live with them, can't void them out of the airlock, but penal colonies are fair game.

Hindsight is always 20/20

In dedicato imperatum ultra articulo mortis (For the Emperor beyond the point of death)

That's the thing though, I'm somewhat satisfied where I am with my ability to poke holes in things, but I want more efficient means of keeping holes from being poked in me.

He nursed his broken heart with an angle grinder.

I love getting my hands dirty. I only feel good if I have a cut somewhere

It feels like that every single time,” Sachs says. “That’s when you know it’s good.” If you cobble together found materials into a bricolage of a prosaic object, but it hurts to let it go, you’re making art.

“If you trust in yourself. . . believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you will still get beaten by the people who have spent their time working hard and learning things, the people who weren't so lazy.”

Freedom isn't free and you're the currency that pays for it

"Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."

Yeah, questions later, can you make it die for now

In my view, it is impossible to inflict damage on another soul without inflicting damage on your own, no matter the circumstances. But there are situations in which the better course is to inflict the physical damage and take the spiritual. Failing to act out of fear of damage, physical or spiritual, is cowardice.

never had to chase after another fucking round object again. I cannot tell you how much of my life had been wasted by my being forced to pretend to care where a leather bag (football or rugby), or solid round object (hockey or cricket) ended up relative to a white line and some posts. Hockey at least had the decency to supply me with a weapon and people to hit with it, but the rest were just so stupid.

Fencing clubs are one of the few environments on Earth where it is perfectly polite, friendly even, to go up to someone you don’t know and say “fancy a fight?”

whisky glasses (even empty ones) do not belong on the arm of a sofa. They may spill! But for ages now, that's where they've gone. Given the quality of the single malts involved, this is a very high risk situation.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

course, the guard they use in HEMA is neither breve nor pflug, it's "posta di just fuck my hands up pal".