Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Berserk Quotes (Anime/Manga)

Guts Quotes:

"Even though I know it's safe here, without my sword, I cannot sleep."

"Look around you carefully. Strain your eyes at the darkness around us... At the darkness around me."

"If you follow me to this place, the entire world... is a battlefield."

"Humans are weak... but we want to live... even if we're wounded... or tortured... we feel the pain..."

"Is this place going to be your grave? Is this really how you want to die? Every sword belongs in its sheath. Go back to the holder of that sheath."

"This fight... it is far from over. We are the generals. Protect her while I attack. I am the raiding party, I will destroy the enemy camp."

"This place is the last you'll ever see. Your deaths means nothing to me."

"My place really was here. I was too foolish and stubborn to notice. But, what I truly hoped for then was here... Why do I always realize it.. When I've already lost it..."

"If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you...you won't be able to walk."

"When you meet your God tell him to leave me alone."

"Let's go drink. Didn't you know? Alcohol can cure poison."

"Do whatever you want now. But if you disturb me, I'll kill you."

"I've never expected a miracle. I will get things done myself."

"DO NOT PRAY! If you pray, your hands will close together. You will not be able to fight!"

"He appeared right in front of me, and he wasn't a demon... but what looked like a human. As if he'd been yanked from before into the present unchanged. I gazed at him and for a second... I forgot to kill him."



Griffith Quotes:

"Now, he's happy. Or, is death the end of the dream? Is it a failure of hope?"

"I always get what I want."

"Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream."

"A dream... It's something you do for yourself, not for others."

"A friend would not just follow another's dream... a friend would find his own reason to live..."

"I do not betray my dream."

Other Quotes:

"Hate is a place where a man who can't stand sadness goes." - Godo

"In this high pressure situation, he was the one who didn't fall back... the only person who stood up and faught." - Farneze

"If you desire one thing for so long, it's a given that you'll miss other things along the way. That's how it is... that's life." - Godo

"We are all starring in a story with no ending in sight." - Narrator

"You can't live on hopes and dreams alone." - Caska

"Without hatred your life is pointless, but this hellfire, isn't it what supports your legs?" - Schierke

"I heard that even in their last moments, the branded still belong to the dark." - Schierke

"The wind whispered and the world began to change." - Schierke

"It's in you. You never tell anyone. The desire. The darkness." - Farneze

"Hatred should be exposed in order to clear it..." - Demon

"So beautiful! My chest is swelling with love, pain, pleasure, jealousy, hate... everything is here! This is so human! This is so demonic!" - Slann

"It was called the dragon because no human hands could wield it." - Godo

"On that day, the deadly sun could be seen all over the land." - Narrator

"The blind king of the white sheep serves as shepard to the villany of the black sheep... and he calls forth an era of darkness upon the world." -Farneze

"Whether it's good or bad, it's so unfortunate to wake up during a dream." -Judeau

"The stronger that any light shines...the darker the nearby shadows grow."- Raban

"If fate is a principle beyond Human comprehension which capriciously torments man, then it is karma that man confront fate by embracing sorcery." - Void

"No matter how strong, for a human to fight a monster means he has submerged his humanity and transformed himself into a greater monster." -Schierke

"Search for everything from this world; that's what sorcery is. If there is a light of reason that illimunates the uncharted darkness, then please, grant it to me." - Farneze

"According to legend, those who are called a berserker are an object of fear; not only for the enemy, but for the allies as well because it is said to kill anything in its path..." - Serpico

"Are all those people gathered just to kill and see blood? Is this the world they live in?" - Schierke

"This world is ugly." - Behelit Apostle

"But facing the darkness, she can never let go of the light." - Behelit Apostle

"Since that man appeared, everything is collapsing. The world I know is being destroyed." - Farneze

"People struggled to survive, but they lost control. We have to conquer our fear to survive. I don't know what God thinks, but he can see human effort." - Luca

Influential Quotes Part 1

"What does not destroy me makes me stronger" - Nietzsche

"We gather strength from sadness and from pain. Each time we die we learn to live again" - Unknown

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price." - Elie Wiesel

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster, for as you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back into you" - Nietzsche

"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive" -Master Khan

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" -Confucius

"Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve" - Sun Tzu

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" - Mahatma Gandhi

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth" - Mahatma Gandhi

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change" -Malcom X

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

"Strength lies not in defense but in attack." - Adolf Hitler

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy" - Winston Churchill

"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter" - Winston Churchill

"The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils" - Junius

"All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty" - H.C. Trumbull

"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake" - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Imagination rules the world" - Napoleon

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else" - Woody Allen

"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia" - Thomas Szasz

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"- Douglas MacArthur

"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live" - Adolf Hitler

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate" - Thomas Jones

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime" - Ernest Hemingway

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last" - Marcus Aurelius

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him" - Winston Churchill

"Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul" - Robert Southey

"Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him" - Ernest Jones

"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy" - Frankfort Moore

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good" - Jonathon Swift

"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on" - Sun Tzu

"No leader should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no leader should fight a battle simply out of pique. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened leader is heedful, and the good leader full of caution" - Sun Tzu

"Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices" - Adolf Hitler

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter" -Winston Churchill

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions" -Confucius

"Have no friends not equal to yourself" - Confucius

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Vince Anello Deadlift Cycle

Week 1:
Deadlift – 255x10, 305x5, 405x2, 455x1, 510x1.
Partial Deadlift (from knee) – 455x5, 510x3, 560x2.

Week 2.
Deadlift – 255x10, 305x5, 355x3, 405x2, 455x1x5. The final group of five singles is performed with only one minute of rest between sets. Time this and be honest with yourself.

Week 3.
Deadlift – 275x10, 325x5, 375x3, 425x2, 475x1, 530x1.
Partials From Knee – 475x5, 530x3, 580x2.

Week 4.
275x10, 324x5, 375x3, 425x2, 475x1x5. Again, one minute timed rest between these five singles.

Week 5.
295x10, 345x5, 395x3, 445x2, 495x1, 550x1.
Partials From Knee – 495x5.

Week 6.
295x10, 345x5, 395x3, 445x2, 495x1x5. One minute rest between singles.

Week 7.
315x10, 365x5, 415x3, 465x2, 570x1.
Partials From Knee – 515x5, 570x3, 620x2.

Week 8.
315x10, 365x5, 415x3, 465x2, 515x1x5. One minute rest between singles.

Week 9.
335x10, 385x5, 435x3, 485x2, 535x1, 590x1.
Partials From Knee – 535x5, 590x3, 640x2.

Week 10.
335x10, 385x5, 435x3, 485x2, 535x1x5. One minute rest between singles.

Week 11.
335x10, 405x5, 455x3, 505x2, 555x1, 610x1, 660x1.
Partials From Knee – 555x1, 610x1, 660x1.

Week 12.
Perform Squat and Deadlift on the same day, dropping the partial squats.
Deadlift – 335x10, 405x5, 455x3, 505x2, 555x1x5. One minute rest between singles.

Week 13.
355x10, 405x5, 455x1, 515x1, 555x1, 590x1.

Week 14.
Meet day. Warmup – 355x10, 405x5, 515x1, 555x1.
Opener – 590.
Second Attempt – 630.
Third Attempt – 650