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This page contains a listing of notable quotes by Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen).

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Quote1 Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill such a specific form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning of unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

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--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 It's September, 1961. John Kennedy is shaking my hand, asking me what it's like to be a superhero. I tell him he should know and he nods, laughing... two years later, in Dallas, his head snaps forward and then back. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 It's August 20th, 1959. I'm enterting the test chamber in the intrinsic field center. I assume I have time to get my coat. I'm wrong. One second becomes zero. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 I am legion. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 I see-- death. I see-- destruction. And I feel-- responsible. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 I am a being of inaction. On a collision course with a man of action. To this universe of hope... I have become the villain. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 In six seconds, Superman will see me. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. It is now. It is Superman. It is me. It is us. It is the world. It is time. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 But I was wrong Adrian. Everything ends. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 Even hope decays. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 It is March 13th, 1993. Veidt's headquarters have become his prison. Every day after school, a young orphan named Cleopatra Pak stands outside, obsessed with the rise and fall of Ozymandias. On her sixteenth birthday, with a fully-grown Bubastis at her side, Miss Pak will call herself Nostalgia. Life doesn't stop. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 "In the end?" Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? In 1945, the bombs are falling on Japan, the cogs are falling in Brooklyn, seeds of the future, sown carelessly... Without me, things would have been different. If the fat man hadn't crushed the watch, if I hadn't been in the test chamber... Am I to blame, then? Or the fat man? Or my father, for choosing my career? Which of us is responsible? Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there... a clock without a craftsman. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

Quote1 We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Quote2

--Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)

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