Rogue One : Wrongs Darker than Death or Night

"To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;

To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;

To defy power which seems omnipotent;

To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates

From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;

Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;

This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be

Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;

This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory." 

Demogorgon (The People-Monster)

Percy Beysche Shelley

Prometheus Unbound

"Meru, I hope the Cardassians aren't lying to me, and that they really will send this message to you. 

I know it's only been a few weeks that we've been back home, but you should see the children. It's like they've been transformed. Reon and Pohl are laughing and playing together; they've never been happier, and I swear little Nerys must have gained five pounds. 

Of course, they keep asking for you. I've told them that you're still at the refugee center. I think that's best, at least for the time being. 

I can't believe how much I miss you. I think about you all the time. 

You've saved all our lives. I hope you realize that. Never forget it, not even for an instant. 

Every day, I pray to the Prophets that you'll find some peace in this new life of yours. I believe that even in the worst of times we can still find moments of joy, and kindness. If you can find that kindness, hold onto it. 

And remember, no matter what happens, I love you Meru. I'll always love you."

- Kira Taban

KIRA: 

I've always hated collaborators. 

I mean, what could be worse than betraying your own people? 

During the occupation, if I ever had doubt about what their fate should be all I would think of my mother, how she gave her life for Bajor. 

She was a hero, they were traitors. 

It was that simple.

Or so I thought. 

SISKO: 

She did what she had to do to save her family. 

To save you. 

KIRA: 

It doesn't make it right. 

SISKO: 

Maybe not, but it was her decision to make. 

KIRA: 

I did some checking. She died in a Cardassian hospital seven years after she met Dukat. 

Seven years. 

Do you know how many Bajorans died in labour camps during that time? 

Died, while my mother sat sipping kanar with Dukat. 

SISKO:

Tell me something, Nerys. If you hate her that much, why did you save her life? 

KIRA: 

Believe me, there's a part of me that wishes that I hadn't. 

But the fact is, no matter what she did, she was still my mother.

To Bend and Never to Break

He who bends most readily, and without effort shall ever be the last, the hardest to break.

Wizards IV and V : A Blue Hope

Manwë summoned the Valar for a council at which it was resolved to send out three emissaries to Middle-earth and he asked who would go... Only two came forward; Curumo and Alatar... and Alatar took Pallando as a friend.

Prior to the arrival of the Istari in the West

Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir up rebellion... and after his first fall to search out his hiding and to cause dissension and disarray among the dark East... They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarraying the forces of the East... who both in the Second Age and Third Age otherwise have... outnumbered the West.

J.R.R. Tolkien

"A light few truly understand."

ALL WILL BE WELL

Family

“Batman was sad about losing his family and afraid to have another one, but then he changed his mind.

Because everyone should have a family if they want one. So why does President Trump want some people to not be with their families?”

“Well, some of them didn’t follow the rules when they came to the United States and he thinks that sending them away will help keep the country safe.”

“Are they doing bad things or hurting other people?”

Sometimes, people can say that you’re bad when you’re really not. And that can really hurt you and your family.”

Who's Best?

We are The Best, 

So screw The Rest

We do as We damn well please

Until The End 

St Trinians

Defenders of Anarchy

Victorious, Rebellious

We do as We damn well please

Until The End

St. Trinians

Defenders of Anarchy

You're so good

Baby there ain't nobody better 

(Ain't nobody better)

So you should

Never, ever go by the letter 

(Never ever)

You're so cool 

(Cool)

Everything you do is success

Make the rules 

(Rules)

Then break them all 'cause you are The Best

River Boat Queen

She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up
his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.

AGRIPPA
There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised
well for her.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
I will tell you.
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid did.

AGRIPPA
O, rare for Antony!

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,
And made their bends adornings: at the helm
A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,
That yarely frame the office. From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.

AGRIPPA
Rare Egyptian!

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,
Invited her to supper: she replied,
It should be better he became her guest;
Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,
Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,
Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,
And for his ordinary pays his heart
For what his eyes eat only.

AGRIPPA
Royal wench!
She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
I saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
That she did make defect perfection,
And, breathless, power breathe forth.

MECAENAS
Now Antony must leave her utterly.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Never; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.

MECAENAS
If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle
The heart of Antony, Octavia is
A blessed lottery to him.

Mace

In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.

I meant that during a night of extreme chaos and fear, when we didn't yet know if we'd been the victims of domestic or foreign terrorism, or even an act of war, there was uncertainty as to who was giving the National Security orders and it was because you never signed a letter. 

So I'm led to wonder, given your condition and it's lack of predictability, why there isn't simply a signed letter sitting in a file someplace. 

And the answer, of course, is that if there was a signed letter sitting in a file someplace, somebody would ask why. 

The Commander-in-Chief had just been attacked, he was under a general anesthetic, a fugitive was at large, the manhunt included every federal, state, and local law enforcement agency. 

The Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware National Guard units were federalised. 

The KH-10s showed Republican Guard movement in southern Iraq. 

And twelve hours earlier, an F-117 was shot down in the no-fly, and the Vice President's authority was murky, at best! 

The National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State didn't know who they were taking their orders from! 

I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets, that it was Leo. 

WHO NO ONE ELECTED. 

For ninety minutes that night there was a coup d'etat in this country.

President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: 

...And the walls came tumbling down...

Psalm 110

1 {A Psalm of David.} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

— Psalm 110 (Authorized Version)

Psalm 110

1 {A Psalm of David.} The LORD saith unto my lord: 'Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

2 The rod of Thy strength the LORD will send out of Zion: 'Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.'

3 Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy warfare in adornments of holiness, from the womb of the dawn, thine is the dew of thy youth.

4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for ever after the manner of Melchizedek.'

5 The Lord at thy right hand doth crush kings in the day of His wrath.

6 He will judge among the nations; He filleth it with dead bodies, He crusheth the head over a wide land.

7 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore will he lift up the head.

— Psalm 110 (Jewish Publication Society)

Though they translate this Psalm similarly, Christians and Jews interpret its meaning very differently—Jews as referring to a righteous king favored by God to rule over Israel on earth and smite her enemies in battle, and Christians as referring to Jesus literally sitting at God's right hand in heaven as a divine being of equal stature to God.

The primary difference between the Christian and Jewish translations is subtle but significant—the rendering of the Hebrew word 'אדנ ('adoni='my lord') in verse 1a. Many Christian translations follow the KJV and render this word as "my Lord", with capitalization implying that "Lord" refers to a name of God and that therefore two distinct divine Persons ("LORD" and "Lord") are involved.

Noted Messianic Jewish scholar Dr. Michael L. Brown states the following: "Psalm 110 is an important Messianic psalm pointing to the highly exalted status of the Messiah (to the right hand of God!), and to his priestly and royal nature. For these reasons, it is quoted frequently in the New Testament with reference to Yeshua. Yeshua even quotes it himself, pointing out how the Messiah was greater than David, since David called him 'my lord.'" 

In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.

I am The Senate.

Not yet.

It's Treason, then...