Change & Growth

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

"I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."

"It's not your fault."

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again."

"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry."

"You got to put your past behind you."

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

"If I can change and you can change, everybody can change."

"Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way."

"I just felt like running."

"I’m starting now. That’s the beauty of it. I’m just beginning."

"There is no spoon."

"You take the blue pill... the story ends. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

"Free your mind."

"What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?"

"I do not believe in fate, because I do not like the idea that I’m not in control of my life."

"The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."

"Your world is not real."

"Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world."

"Because he was right. This country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope."

"God is in the rain."

"This world's a treasure, Donald, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now."

"I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it."

"It was the ship of dreams to everybody else. To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains."

"Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead."

"Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere."

"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you."

"I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."

"Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery."

"These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them."

"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it."

"You are who you choose to be."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man."

"That's all it is, Miles. A leap of faith."

"Every time we have a chance to get ahead, they move the finish line."

"A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try."

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."

"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind."

"You can't blend in when you were born to stand out."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"It's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be."

"You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing."

"Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you're scared and you do it anyway."

"Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become."

"We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there."

"Is it possible, just once, we could get something to eat for dinner around here that's not the goddamned fucking chicken?"

"If some girl came up to me, begged me to fuck her, I couldn't do it."

"Olive, I'll give you a million dollars if you turn around."

"Well, I'm going to give it to you anyway."

"I don't want you making the same mistakes I made when I was young."

"That young stuff is the best in the world."

"That young stuff is the best stuff in the whole world!"

"I mean, you hit 18, man, you're talking about three to five."

"Fuck you, I can say what I want!"

"I still got Nazi bullets in my ass!"

"Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching."

"I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals."

"If it's either (a) or (c), please call me back."

"I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their "i's" with little hearts."

"When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first."

"That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends."

"A fleeting thought that drifts in and out of the transom of your mind."

"Look, when the shit comes down, I'm gonna be prepared and you're not, that's all I'm saying."

"With whom did you have this great sex?"

"No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon."

"My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances."

"It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us"

"Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life."

"Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same."

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

"Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it."

"Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it."

"I think, right there and then, she realized none of us is perfect forever."

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be."

"There's no time limit, start whenever you want."

"You just told me outside, Mom, what are you talking about?"

"Five minutes ago, we were walking up the stairs, you said, "Don't say anything, but Dad lost his job and he's bookmaking.""

"Congratulations on the baby, but I'm not buying the invitation."

"Nikki always said that Ronnie's wife keeps her social calendar where she keeps his balls, in her purse."

"I just see that you made an effort and I'm gonna be better with my wife, I'm working on that."

"What the fuck are you doing, your husband's dead!"

"I ordered Raisin Bran because I didn't want any mistaking it for a date."

"So how's your thing going -- dancing thing?"

"I've one more letter for you to read, okay?"

"You don't ever have to see me again if you just read it, all right?"

"I don't like being stalked, not by psycho nerds OR THEIR CAT!"

"You're awful cheerful, considering you can't say anything."

"There were garden squash like balloon animals and snapdragons."

"Not pretend like the crazy man's at our house."

"The most fun I've had since we moved here."

"She's got this whole world where everything's better."

"The food, the garden, the neighbors, but it's all a trap."

"You're the jerkwad that gave me the doll!"

"Don't you only make wings for the dead ones?"

"You… have a very funny way of showing it."

"If you make a scene, my mom won't let me keep him."

"It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal."

"Hey, big metal guy, I got food here for you!"

"So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?"

"Hmm, maybe it's that bump from your head."

"Wow, my own giant robot, I am now the luckiest kid in America!"

"This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something."

"People will always wig out and start shooting when they see something big like you."

"That's the kind of stuff that makes them shoot at you."

"So, we can't call Ripley's Believe It or Not!"

"Alright, people, let's do this one last time."

"And for the last 22 years, I thought I was the one and only Spider-Man."

"You see, I saved the city, fell in love, I got married– saved the city some more, maybe too much."

"My marriage got testy, made some dicey money choices, don't invest in a spider-themed restaurant."

"I broke my back, a drone flew into my face."

"No matter how many times I get hit, I always get back up."

"And I got a lot of time to reflect and work on myself."

"Did you know that seahorses, that they mate for life?"

"A seahorse seeing another seahorse– and then making it work?"

"She wanted kids and– and it scared me."

"Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside."

"I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere."

"The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway."

"It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time."

"I don't think the store manager likes me very much."

"Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds."

"I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does."

"I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends."

"Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am."

"Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home."

"I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin."

"So I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir."

"Your Honor, out of all the cases you gon' hear today, which one is gon' matter hundred years from now?"

"Which one is gon' make you the first?"

"Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line."

"We didn't pick the place, Officer, it picked us."

"Hard to be of service broken down on the side of the road, though."

"Hurry up, Dorothy, before he changes his mind."

"I'll tell you where to begin: three "colored" women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in Hampton, Virginia, 1961."

"I have the right to see fine in every color."

"I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end."

"I came here to tell you how it's going to begin."

"I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see."

"I'm going to show them a world without you."

"A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries."

"Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

"Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal."

"You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap."

"Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."

"If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?"

"Mor'du has never been seen since and is roaming the wilds, waiting his chance at revenge."

"Mom, you'll never guess what I did today."

"I climbed up the Crone's Tooth and drank from the Fire Falls."

"You can just tell the lords, "The princess is not ready for this."

"In fact, she might not ever be ready for this, so that's that."

"We'll expect your declarations of war in the morning.""

"I don't want my life to be over."

"I'm not doing any of this to hurt you."

"I swear, Angus, this isn't going to happen."

"Not if I have any say in it."

"This line is tapped, so I must be brief."

"They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are."

"If they knew what I know, you'd probably be dead."

"You see, you may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I've spent my entire life looking for you."

"As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus."

"I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole, hmm?"

"You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up."

"Ironically, this is not far from the truth."

"What you know, you can't explain, but you feel it."

"You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with this world."

"Remember, remember The fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot."

"I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.""

"I know his name was Guy Fawkes, and I know that, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the houses of Parliament."

"We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail."

"But four hundred years later an idea can still change the world."

"I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them."

"But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it."

"And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man."

"A man that made me remember the fifth of November."

"A fake ID works a lot better than a Guy Fawkes mask."

"What's even more amusing is that Gusteau actually seems to believe it."

"I, on the other hand, take cooking seriously and no, I don't think anyone can do it."

"If I don't love it, I don't swallow."

"I will return tomorrow night with high expectations."

"Yes, I'd like your heart roasted on a spit."

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy."

"We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment."

"We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read."

"But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."

"But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new."

"It's just hard finding a job when you have a record."

"Maggie, I tell you this as a friend and as the first love of my life."

"Made from the same steel as the Titanic."

"It doesn't do so well in the cold."

"Ok, the first thing we should do…is call the Avengers."

"Hank, didn't you say this was some old warehouse?"

"There's something in that backyard that needs to be destroyed, in the bug-zapper."

"How's everybody doing tonight in the quantum realm?"

"Healing particles secure for our new Ghost friend."

"You told me yourself not to screw around."

"In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate."

"Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand"."

"Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call karate."

"Five to one problem, too much ask anyone."

"No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher."

"Now use head for something other than target, Daniel-san."

"In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants."

"Walk middle, sooner or later, get squished, just like grape."

"Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no"."

"You karate do "guess so", just like grape."

"And rich white people pay me to play piano for them because it makes them feel cultured."

"But as soon as I step off that stage, I go right back to being just another negro to them."

"And I suffer that side alone, because I'm not accepted by my own people 'cause I'm not like them, either."

"So if I'm not black enough and if I'm not white enough and if I'm not man enough then tell me, Tony, what am I!?"

"You only win when you maintain your dignity."

"I'm about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South."

"And those weren't children on the cover, those were demons in the bowels of Hell."

"Next time you need extra money, just ask me."

"So stooping down in the gravel pitching dice for pocket change makes you a winner?"

"They didn't have a choice whether to be inside or out."

"You know, kid, in times like this, my buddy Timon here says, "You gotta put your behind in your past.""

"You know, kid, these two words will solve all your problems!"

"And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind."

"Ever wonder what those sparkling dots are up there?"

"I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away."

"His carefree days with us are history -"

"I gotta tell ya, Timon, that song always gets me right here."

"We've got to go back to the beginning of the story."

"Then why don't you tell them our story?!"

"Because what they don't know is how we really were there even though they didn't know we were there you know?!"

"He sleeps till noon every day and he can't even hold a job."

"Don't talk about my mom like that, you bald-headed freak."

"I get the sense that you don't like me very much."

"Well, you let me know when you figure it out."

"Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written in awhile, but I've been trying hard to not be a loser."

"Mary Elizabeth is a nice person underneath the parts of her that hate everybody."

"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons."

"And maybe we'll never know most of them."

"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

"It's much easier to not know things sometimes."