“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move”.
I’ll read this phrase but I won’t enjoy it
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
I’d agree, but that’s 2 sentences.
Dammit
Okay imagine there’s a semicolon there instead
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”;
Still doesn’t work.
At least now it compiles
In the end, isn’t that the real treasure?
Half the kingdom and my firstborn for passing tests
I guess a string literally followed by a semicolon would be an interesting way to leave a comment. I may use this in the future since comments are against my religion. Figuring out what my code does is future me’s problem. And that guy’s a dick he never comments his code.
Em dash that bastard
This isn’t the greatest sentence, this is just a tribute.
The chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions”
Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
Look at what “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” needs to mimic a fraction of that power
I wouldn’t label it as “the greates sentence ever”, rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.
“I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that’s how much faith I have in humanity.”
I live on a one way street. The amount of vehicles that zoom by in the wrong direction is ridiculous
“This too shall pass”
If something good happens, it’s a cautionary warning to stay humble.
If something bad happens, it’s a comforting reminder that things will get better.
I saw this quote on the desk of a proctologist I once visited.
Good point
I’ve also heard “Everything ends”
“That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse”
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes
"Do you think… God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created, here on Earth? "
Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.
I thought this was his character in Con Air
You have nothing to loose but your chains
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
“Long days and pleasant nights.”
“He who fights monsters must see that he doesn’t become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate how often I see this quote without attribution.
Also: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ummm
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger."
Yeah, that’s Kelly Clarkson, m’kay?
“What doesn’t kill you, makes you crippled”
Gregory House
Despite all our accomplishments, we all own our existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
I found it somewere on the Internet and can Not forget it.
I read that too. Good one.
Tiān gāo, huángdì yuǎn Heaven is high and the emperor is far awayIs one of my favorite.
Another is the a misattributed quote:
Les hommes ne seront jamais libres tant que le dernier roi ne sera pas étranglé avec les entrailles du dernier prêtre. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.Though the apparent original is good too.
Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois. Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois. I seek neither to rule nor to serve. And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest, For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.The second line from the US declaration of indpenedce is a banger too:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.John Brown’s:
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.Is also really good.
I seek neither to rule nor to serve. And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest, For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.What does that even mean? What thing’s hands are we talking aboit by the second line?
It’s a truncated quote from Diderot. The full verse is:
J’en atteste les temps ; j’en appelle à tout âge ; Jamais au public avantage L’homme n’a franchement sacrifié ses droits ; S’il osait de son cœur n’écouter que la voix, Changeant tout à coup de langage, Il nous dirait, comme l’hôte des bois : « La nature n’a fait ni serviteur ni maître; « Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois. » Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.A slightly better translation would be:
I bear witness to the times; I appeal to all ages; Never, for the public good, Has man willingly sacrificed his rights; If he dared to listen only to the voice of his heart, Suddenly changing his tone, He would say to us, like the dweller of the woods: “Nature has created neither servant nor master; “I wish neither to give nor to receive laws.” And his hands would tear out the priest’s entrails, For lack of a cord to strangle kings.It is the voice of the forest, dweller of the woods being a stand in for anarchists. So the hands strangling kings with priest’s entrails are those of the man realizing the importance of rights and freedom. Diderot elaborates across the poem about the character of political order. Declaring that no law or political rule is sacred or natural. Mankind makes sociopolitical structures, they are not natural, and thus nature will gladly unmake them, as a king dying, for example. Essentially, he says that no elevated, supernatural, or godly power exists that will stop the hands of a person who has chosen to defy political oppression. It was extremely controversial in the XVIII century, a liberal cry for revolution against political systems that still stood over the pillars of a god given right of monarchs to rule. It’s called Les éleuthéromanes, I’m not gonna try to translate that, but the full text can be found freely.
That one’s so good it makes me want to learn French.
I seek neither to rule nor to serve. And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest, For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.
That’s two sentences.
Worse yet it’s missing some good context that dustyData shared in this thread. I just included it in reference to the quote I thought of
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Somewhat famously this line (the entire soliloquy actually) was improvised by Rutger Hauer in the moment, so not strictly written down. Just taking the piss mate, best fucking movie ever!
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