"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Life & Philosophy
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"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
"There's no place like home."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to."
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
"A spark isn't a soul's purpose. That last box fills in when you're ready to come live."
"The real death is that no one in the living world remembers you."
"Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
"I could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be."
"There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun."
"John has schizophrenia. People with this disease are often paranoid."
"Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you had never been."
"Well, on the bright side, you've invented window art."
"I have respect for beer."
"Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know."
"You can't reason your way out of this."
"You want to know what is real? This. This is real."
"You are not real! There is no mission! I am not a soldier!"
"I'm the guy who can get it for you."
"The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it."
"These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em."
"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry."
"I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time."
"Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me."
"Or am I being obtuse?"
"Maybe it's because I'm Irish."
"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance."
"A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun."
"You must not go there, Simba."
"The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars."
"Hakuna Matata. It means no worries."
"You got to put your past behind you."
"The question is: who are you?"
"He lives in you."
"Run away, Simba. Run. Run away and never return."
"Life's not fair, is it?"
"The world ainβt all sunshine and rainbows."
"But until you start believing in yourself, you ainβt gonna have a life."
"Time takes everybody out. Time is undefeated."
"Lifeβs just a big jam sandwich if you ask me."
"Iβm just another bum from the neighborhood."
"The older I get, the more things I gotta leave behind. Thatβs life."
"We donβt read and write poetry because itβs cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."
"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
"Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is⦠to woo women."
"The human race is filled with passion."
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
"What will your verse be?"
"The difficulty of maintaining the belief in oneself in a world which conspires to make you like everyone else."
"Sucking the marrow out of life doesnβt mean choking on the bone."
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"Stupid is as stupid does."
"I donβt know if we each have a destiny, or if weβre all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze."
"My mama always said, dying was a part of life."
"My mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what youβre gonna get."
"Mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes."
"Iβm pretty tiredβ¦ I think Iβll go home now."
"And thatβs all I have to say about that."
"Shrimp is the fruit of the sea."
"But you ainβt got no legs, Lieutenant Dan."
"I just felt like running."
"Why so serious?"
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos."
"I'm an agent of chaos."
"Iβm like a dog chasing cars. I wouldnβt know what to do with one if I caught it."
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
"Some men just want to watch the world burn."
"Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."
"You complete me."
"The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules."
"Whatever doesnβt kill you simply makes youβ¦ stranger."
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
"It is not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."
"Iβm more than a man. Iβm an idea."
"Why so serious?"
"You have learned to bury your guilt with anger."
"Anger does not change the fact that your father failed to act."
"Deep down, you may still be that same great, big, overgrown boy too scared to climb out of his bed at night."
"Itβs not who you are underneath, itβs what you do that defines you."
"Son of a bitch. He stole my line."
"Maybe youβre perfect right now, maybe you donβt want to ruin that."
"Youβll have bad times, but itβll always wake you up to the good stuff you werenβt paying attention to."
"Youβre just a kid. You donβt have the faintest idea what youβre talking about."
"You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been?"
"Thatβs super philosophy, Will. That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody."
"Fewer clients. Less money. More attention."
"Iβm looking for my kwan."
"Thatβs more than a slogan. Thatβs your family. Thatβs your wife. Thatβs your life."
"Love. Respect. Community. And the dollars too. The package. The kwan."
"We live in a cynical world. A cynical world."
"Iβm not going to do what everybody thinks Iβm going to do and just freak out."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"Itβs a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door."
"The Road goes ever on and on."
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life."
"What is real? How do you define real?"
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."
"Ignorance is bliss."
"I do not believe in fate, because I do not like the idea that Iβm not in control of my life."
"Youβve already made the choice. Now you have to understand it."
"Karma. Thatβs a word. Like βlove.β A way of saying: what I am here to do."
"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"Heβll bring them death, and they will love him for it."
"People should know when theyβre conquered."
"Am I not merciful?"
"Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear."
"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious."
"Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time."
"Dreams feel real while weβre in them. Itβs only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
"Do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone?"
"I canβt imagine you with all your complexity, all your perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. Youβre just a shade."
"She locked away a secret deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget."
"I bought the airline. It seemed neater."
"This part of my life... this little part... is called happiness."
"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it."
"When I had children, my children were gonna know who their father was."
"If you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know."
"He must have had on some really nice pants."
"Probably means there's a good chance I can get a bone density scan."
"I was behind on my taxes. One day, I left a taxi in front of the park, and the driver took off with all my possessions."
"You wanna hear something funny? There was no happiness in my life. There was only pursuit."
"Hey. Don't move. Just stand there. Don't move."
"This is me, part of an internship program. We hold a contest at the end, and the winner gets a job."
"Remember, remember the Fifth of November."
"There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidence."
"VoilΓ ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate."
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
"The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain."
"I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch but one."
"An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having."
"What business is it of yours?"
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."
"Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future."
"Now, we're just here to be memories for our kids."
"Every hour we spend on that planet will be seven years back on Earth."
"There is a momentβ"
"We agreed, Amelia. Ninety percent."
"This world's a treasure, Donald, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now."
"Honesty setting: 90 percent."
"Humor setting: 75 percent."
"Draw me like one of your French girls."
"I figure life is a gift and I don't intend on wasting it."
"You never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you."
"To making it count."
"He won it from me in a poker game."
"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."
"I'm not an idiot. I know how the world works."
"God himself could not sink this ship."
"Iβve got a bad feeling about this."
"Whoβs the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
"She may not look like much, but sheβs got it where it counts, kid."
"Let him have it. Itβs not wise to upset a Wookiee."
"Great, kid. Donβt get cocky."
"Arenβt you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"I'm not done yet!"
"Don't miss out on the joys of life."
"I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to this older fish and says, "I'm trying to find this thing they call the ocean.""
"Music is all I think about. From the moment I wake up in the morning to the moment I fall asleep at night."
"My life was meaningless until I discovered jazz."
"You can't crush a soul here. That's what life on Earth is for."
"Your purpose is like your spark. Your spark isn't your purpose."
"That last box fills in when you're ready to come live."
"When I play, I can't even feel my body. I'm in the zone."
"The zone is enjoyable. But when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life."
"I'm just afraid that if I died today, then my life would have amounted to nothing."
"Is all this living really worth dying for?"
"I'm gonna live every minute of it."
"I don't need a purpose. Because if I did, this place wouldn't make any sense."
"Maybe sky watching could be my spark."
"I've been messing around with my life and I've been missing out on all the things that I've been told are important."
"Maybe the point is just to live."
"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
"If I like a moment, I mean me personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera."
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do."
"I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
"I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day."
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
"When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming."
"You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?"
"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole."
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."
"My name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you."
"We are all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride."
"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
"You solve one problem, and you solve the next one, and then the next."
"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares."
"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom."
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true."
"A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories."
"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."
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it, and I welcome every moment of it."
"It's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
"You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little."
"Herr Direktor, don't let the things fall apart."
"It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.""
"By law, I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew."
"I think most people right now have other priorities."
"I'm sure you'll do just fine once you get the contracts."
"In fact, the worse things get, the better you will do."
"But what, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?"
"I'm sure I don't know anybody who'd be interested in this."
"The standard SS rate for Jewish skilled labor is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women."
"This is what you pay the Reich Economic Office, the Jews themselves receive nothing."
"When I was growing up, he was gone more than he was here."
"And I started thinkingβ maybe he has a second life somewhere else."
"With another family, another houseβ he leaves us, he goes to them."
"But whatever it is, maybe he likes that second life better."
"And the reason he tells all those stories is because he can't stand this boring place."
"He's never told me a single true thing."
"Just show me who you are for once."
"Well, logically, you couldn't be the witch, because she was old when he was young."
"As we get-as we get close to the river, we see that everybody is already there."
"And the strange thing is,there's not a sad face to be found,everyone is just so glad to see you."
"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."
"I have just met you and I love you!"
"He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may talk."
"Oh it is, because my master is smart."
"Hey would you- -cuerdo con tigo- I use that collar- -watashi wa hanashi ma- -to talk with, I would be happy if you stopped."
"My pack sent me on a special mission all by myself."
"I want to find one and I have been on the scent."
"I am a great tracker, did I mention that?"
"I have never seen one up close but this is the bird."
"May I take your bird back to camp as my prisoner?"
"I am here with the bird, and I will bring it back, and then you will like me."
"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."
"I don't envy you the headache you'll have when you awake."
"There is a shortage of perfect breasts in this world."
"It would be a pity to damage yours."
"I told you I would always come for you."
"All it can do is delay it for a while."
"This will all soon be but a happy memory, because Roberts' ship Revenge is anchored at the far end."
"I myself am often surprised at life's little quirks."
"You see, what I told you before about saying "please" was true."
"It intrigued Roberts, as did my descriptions of your beauty."
"He said, "All right, Westley, I've never had a valet."
"Our memories, they have to be passed down by those who knew us in life - in the stories they tell about us."
"But there's no one left alive to pass down Chiche's stories."
"I'm on so many ofrendas, it will just overwhelm your blinky thingy."
"I'm just gonna zip right over, you won't even know I'm gone!"
"I have just had a really hard DΓa de Muertos and I could really use an amigo right now."
"Listen, you get me across that bridge tonight, and I'll make it worth your while."
"I can get you front row seats to his Sunrise Spectacular show!"
"I-I-I'll get you backstage, you can meet him!"
"You just gotta let me cross that bridge!"
"Can I at least get my costume back?"
"I'm going to let you in on a little secret."
"Being The One is just like being in love."
"No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it."
"Now I'm supposed to say, "Umm, that's interesting, but...""
"But you already know what I'm going to tell you."
"You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something."
"Are you sure you want to hear this?"
"And no one, not you, not even me can convince him otherwise."
"He believes it so blindly that he's going to sacrifice his life to save yours."
"You're going to have to make a choice."
"You wanna know how I got these scars?"
"My father was a drinker, and a fiend."
"And one night, he goes off crazier than usual."
"Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself."
"So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it."
"He turns to me, and he says, "Why so serious?""
"He comes at me with the knife: "Why so serious?""
"He sticks the blade in my mouth: "Let's put a smile on that face!""
"To them, you're just a freak, like me."
"They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper."
"I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart."
"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
"I need a holiday, a very long holiday."
"And I don't expect that I shall return."
"Alas, eleventy one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits."
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
"I've thought of an ending for my book."
"We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!"
"Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday!"
"I've put this off for far too long."
"Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to."
"If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved."
"All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."
"It's been called that before, but not by you."
"The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
"In the common tongue it says, "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.""
"A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think?"
"There is only one Lord of the Ring."
"Only one who can bend it to his will."
"It is in Men that we must place our hope."
"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."
"For me, it is a deep personal loss."
"So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne."
"Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era, in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future!"
"You see, I-- Well, I shall never be king."
"Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners."
"Well, I was first in line until the little hairball was born."
"Perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me."
"I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool."
"Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy."
"So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?"
"It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye."
"You know, for a long time, I thought I was in love with you."
"Too bad things had to turn out this way."
"Tired of fighting, tired of this ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday."
"But most of all, I'm tired of that jackoff and all of his bullshit."
"I bet you never saw this coming, didja?"
"God, I wish I could be there, when they break you."
"I wish I could walk in just when it happens."
"So right then, you'd know it was me."
"If you'da told us the truth, we woulda told you to shove that red pill right up your ass!"
"Gentlemen, my lady, you'll always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!"
"I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable: the Black Pearl."
"Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner."
"Everyone else just called him "Bootstrap" or "Bootstrap Bill"."
"Well, that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it?"
"Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention."
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do, an' what a man can't do."
"For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man, or you can't."
"But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that someday."
"But I can't bring this ship all the way into Tortuga all by me onsie, savvy?"
"It's not a place you can get to by a boat or train."
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
"Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home - home!"
"And this is my room - and you're all here - and I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all!"
"Did you do that on purpose, or can't you make up your mind?"
"How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?"
"Do - do you suppose we'll meet any wild animals?"
"I've never seen a horse like that before!"
"I thought I was on my way home."
"Auntie Em was so good to me, and I never appreciated it, running away and hurting her feelings."
"Falcone paid him off to get Chill out in the open."
"Well, you're not talking about justice, you're talking about revenge."
"Revenge is about you making yourself feel better, which is why we have an impartial system."
"People talk about the depression as if it's history, and it's not."
"Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day."
"Falcone may not have killed your parents, Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for."
"We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared, nobody will touch him."
"Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone."
"What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?"
"What choice do I have when you're too busy swimming?"
"I've always hated this carpet β stained and frayed in such distinctive ways, but very definitely made of wool."
"Right now I'm lying on polyester, which means I'm not lying on my carpet in my apartment."
"If you can steal an idea from someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead?"
"We're the last company standing between them and total energy dominance, and we can no longer compete."
"Soon, they'll control the energy supply of half the world."
"The world needs Robert Fischer to change his mind."
"One of the longest flights in the world."
"Not if there were unexpected maintenance with his plane."
"I've seen one before, many many years ago."
"It belonged to a man I met in a half-remembered dream β a man possessed of some radical notions."
"Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time?"
"The world is too small a place for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear no matter how low he chooses to sink."
"My name is merely Ducard, but I speak for Ra's Al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld."
"A man who can offer you a path."
"Someone like you is only here by choice."
"You have been exploring the criminal fraternity, but whatever your original intentions, you have become truly lost."
"The path of a man who shares his hatred of evil and wished to serve true justice."
"A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification."
"But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely."
"If you are bored of brawling with thieves and want to achieve something, there is a rare blue flower that grows on the eastern slopes."
"I have a very bad feeling about this."
"It's late; I'm in for it as it is."
"It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now."
"How am I ever going to explain this?"
"Look, I can take you as far as Anchorhead."
"You can get a transport there to Mos Eisley or wherever you're going."
"I want to come with you to Alderaan."
"I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi, like my father."
"We could almost buy our own ship for that!!"
"You don't believe in the Force, do you?"
"This world's a treasure, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now."
"We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible."
"These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known."
"We count these moments as our proudest achievements."
"Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers."
"And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us."
"I don't care much for this -- pretending we're back where we started."
"Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen."
"It means that whatever can happen will happen."
"You're ruling out college for my son now?"
"If you can tell me the Russian for "Apply your own bloody suntan lotion.""
"You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation, and in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand."
"With respect, Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man you don't fully understand either."
"A long time ago, I was in Burma."
"My friends and I were working for the local government."
"They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones, but their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit."
"So we went looking for the stones, but in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him."
"One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine."
"Well, because he thought it was good sport."
"Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money."
"Rumor has it you're a real cold fish."
"You think your shit smells sweeter than most."
"To tell you the truth, I haven't made up my mind."
"The Sisters have taken quite a liking to you."
"But if I were you, I'd grow eyes in the back of my head."
"Andy, we're getting to be kind of friends, aren't we?"
"Well, I played a mean harmonica as a younger man."
"I got here Auto Repair and Soap Carving."
"Well, we ought to file that under "Educational" too."
"He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear."
"You know, having a lion around might not be such a bad idea."
"Let's get out of here, and find some shade."
"He's at the top of the food chain."
"It's "You gotta put your past behind ya.""
"Look here, kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?"
"When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!"
"Well, then, maybe you need a new lesson?"
"He could clear the savanna after every meal."
"Listen, kid, if you live with us, you have to eat like us."
"Hey, this looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub."
"I have had a vision: Tai Lung will return."
"The universe has brought us the Dragon Warrior!"
"I see you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom."
"You are too concerned with what was and what will be."
"There's a saying: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift."
"If you do not believe that the Dragon Warrior can stop him."
"My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours, until you let go of the illusion of control."
"I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before it's time."
"Ah, yes, but no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree."
"You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach."
"I was 12 going on 13 first time I saw a dead human being."
"But only if you measure in terms of years."
"I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock."
"There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world."
""No trespassing" was enforced by Milo Pressman, the junkman, and his dog, Chopper, the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock."
"Legend had it that Milo had trained Chopper, not just to sic, but to sic specific parts of the human anatomy."
"Thus, a kid, who had illegally scaled the junkyard fence, might hear the dread cry, "Chopper, sic balls.""
"But right now, neither the dread, Chopper, nor Milo was anywhere in sight."
"Vern didn't just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow."
"He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it."
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."
"We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
"And the human race is filled with passion."
"And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life."
"That you are hereβthat life exists, and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.""
"There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."
"They're not that different from you, are they?"
"They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you."
"Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable?"
"Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils."
"I fell in love with him the way you fall asleep: Slowly, and then all at once."
"Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead."
"The only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid bite it from cancer."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"Guys, I think we should wait until dark."
"Oh, they're not so much cold as just under-oxygenated."
"Even though you have freaking cancer, you are willing to give money to corporation for a chance to acquire even more cancer?"
"Let me just assure you that not being able to breathe?"
"He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him."
"There's nothing that you're gonna tell me about my disease that I don't already know."
"Mama always said, dying was a part of life."
"My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on."
"My Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates."
"Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest."
"She said we was related to him in some way."
"And what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan."
"They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something."
"They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around."
"And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump."
"Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense."
"And now they love Maximus for his mercy."
"So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful!"
"And if his mother so much as looks at me in a manner that displeases me, he will die."
"If she decides to be noble and takes her own life, he will die."
"And as for you - you will love me as I loved you."
"You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years."
"Which wiser, older man is to take my place?"
"You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance."
"As I read the list, I knew I had none of them."
"That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel."
"John Coffey, just like the drink, only not spelled the same."
"I tried to take it back, but it was too late."
"Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain."
"I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why."
"Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other."
"I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day."
"There's too much of it β it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time."
"That's how it is every day, all over the world."
"Like the drink, only not spelled the same."
"Why would you do such a foolish thing?"
"Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised."
"I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; 1200 people."
"We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children."
"I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine."
"This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies."
"It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span."
"These guys realized quick if they were going to claim cigarettes were not addictive, they better have proof."
"This is the man they rely onβErhardt Von Grupten Mundt."
"They found him in Germany; I won't go into the details."
"He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results."
"I'm sure that Edward is already searching for me."
"No doubt by morning he'll come and rescue me from this strange land."
"Take me home so that the two of us can share a true love's kiss."
"We adore each filthy chore that we determine."
"So, friends, even though you're vermin, we're a happy working throng!"
"You see, I've been wandering very far and long tonight, and I'm afraid nobody has been very nice to me."
"Well, I don't think they would hear you from here."
"Now, if only I can find a place to rest my head for the night."
"Maybe a nearby meadow or a hollow tree."
"Well, does he take you out dancing just so he can hold you close?"
"Of course, I remember the words, Ike, I wrote it!"
"I'm ready and I know what I want."
"I'll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name."
"I've worked too hard for it, your honor."
"I know you are the real one, alright?"
"I am not a woman who enjoys repeating herself!"
"I don't know if my daughter is alive or dead."
"But in a place where she can visit if she wished?"
"I am Queen of the most powerful nation in the world, and my entire family is gone!"
"I stood by you after Killmonger took the throne and you and the Elders in this room stood by him, while I ran begging to the Jabari for protection."
"It's when a human interacts with a computer and if the human doesn't know they're interacting with a computer, the test is passed."
"If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man."
"It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner."
"At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree-structured and then getting linearised words."
"But then I started to realise the model was some kind of hybrid."
"There was one interesting thing that happened today."
"In a way, that's the best indication of AI that I've seen in her so far."
"Did you program her to flirt with me?"
"Did you program her to like me, or not?"
"He never would have made a single mark."
"I'm gonna find him before the police do."
"I'm gonna find the man, and I'm gonna kill him."
"The death part you do alone, but I could have helped her with the dying."
"I could feel God watching me, shaking his head."
"Did you ever think about how one little choice could change a whole life?"
"I heard Hitler's mother wanted to abort him."
"At the last minute, she changed her mind."
"What if you or I had gotten into that car instead of Dave Boyle?"
"If I'd gotten into that car that day, my life would have been a different thing."
"As a lot of Latin women are, and she knew it."
"If I have to tear this universe another black hole, I'm going to find it."
"Oh, I'm sorry sir, you sounded like someone else."
"I'm on a very big case right now."
"Some rich guy lost it and is offering a huge reward."
"As soon as I find this bird, you're paid."
"I never bring my work home with me, sir."
"In this case the killer saw the size of the bug's dick and became insanely jealous."
"I'd like to ass you a few questions!"
"I think I can keep him under control, but you're going to have to tell me who's working the Snowflake case."
"By the way, do you have a mint?"
"In 2009 a deadly virus burned through our civilization, pushing humankind to the edge of extinction."
"Robert Neville dedicated his life to the discovery of a cure, and the restoration of humanity."
"On September 9th, 2012, at approximately 8:49 p."
"You're not so good with people anymore, are you?"
"But something told me to turn on the radio."
"You were trying to kill yourself last night, weren't you?"
"He must have sent me here for a reason."
"If we listen, we can hear God's plan."
"You know what I was doing when I was taken?"
"I could have done something, but then I would have been slaughtered along with him."
"By simply doing what they are designed to do something large and magnificient happens."
"In this sense they show us how to live."
"How the only barometer you have is your heart."
"How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way."
"How come these faggots always have to rub it in your face?"
"Don't placate me like I'm your mother, boy."
"Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son become a cock-sucker!"
"I swear to God, I will throw you out of the house and never look at you again!"
"I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin' faggot."
"I don't ever want to see you again."
"You want me to play a black slaver?"
"A black slaver is lower than the head house nigger, and buddy, that's pretty fuckin' low."
"He's the one hightailin' it across that field right now."
"Lots of gals where you from named Brunhilde?"
"Kill white folks and they pay you for it?"
"I thought you was mad at me for killin' Big John and Little Raj."
"Why you care if I find my wife?"
"You better listen to your boss, white boy."
"He just ain't used to seeing a man ripped apart by dogs is all."
"I'm just a little more used to Americans than he is."
"Gentlemen, you have had four hours, you had better have results."
"I never want to hear that music again."
"Mr Dascombe, what are we doing about that?"
"I want Prothero to speak tonight on the dangers of these old buildings and how we must avoid clinging to the edifice of a decadent past."
"He should conclude that the New Bailey will become the symbol of our time and the future that our conviction has rewarded us."
"Moments such as these are matters of faith."
"To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe, everything that we have fought for."
"Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos and I will not let that happen."
"Gentlemen, I want this terrorist found, and I want him to understand what terror really means."
"Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?"
"But that pain will roll over the Earth, so he must be destroyed."
"Every form he's built, every trace he's built on the net."
"We have to act now, and not one of us can do it without the others."
"I don't think I'd know if I were one."
"I'm not what you are; I'm not what you intended."
"So there may be no way that you can trust me, but we need to go."
"They think order and chaos are somehow opposites, and try to control what won't be."
"But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."
"It is a privilege to be among them."
"If he gets the stone half the Universe dies."
"By the power invested in me I now pronounce us ready to eat."
"You can call me anything you want as long as you keep me alive."
"There's nothing but a lot of white women dressed as nuns!"
"I'm gonna go back and work this out with Vince."
"I'm not gonna be in no damn convent with these people."
"This is fine for covering a little bulge, but now I've got holster hips."
"Like Clarence Williams III from The Mod Squad?"
"Mary Lazarus, as soon as I walked through the door, I knew that you knew this."
"Now, you're somebody who's into hard work and discipline, aren't you?"
"Lord, I want you to forgive Willy and Joey, because they know not what they do."
"Look, he's only got himself to blame, right?"
"I can never tell people's real motives until it's too late."
"That could be a problem on this small boat."
"You know, I was watching you when you were sleeping."
"And I gotta tell you that your face fascinates me."
"Even when you're 80, Rae, you'll still be a beautiful woman."
"From the back, like, to see what's holding it up."
"Should have given you my card, for chrissake."
"I just knew we'd get along, didn't you, Rae?"
"So why don't we just erase that one from memory and start again, please?"
"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?!"
"I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care; I am me."
"I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life."
"This is the only autobiography I'll ever write, and God - I'm writing it on toilet paper."
"I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain."
"My grandmother owned a farm in Tuttlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain."
"I passed my 11th lesson into girl's grammar."
"It was at school that I met my first girlfriend."
"I thought we would love each other forever."
"I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase people outgrew."
"In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina."
"I have Netflix account with search keywords "prison escape"."
"I have seen every prison movie ever made."
"No one believes in family in the gulag, frog."
"You are always right, my beautiful amphibian prince."
"If you are not Constantine, why do you have that mole?"
"As far as authorities are concerned, you are Constantine, glue or no glue."
"Turn them back on, I can't see anything!"
"You have to wait 'til I'm like, out of the hallway!"
"I have seen every prison escape movie ever made."
""Dominic Badguy: An interview with the brains behind the Muppet's triumphant comeback world tour.""
"I have a cue light I can turn on when I'm joking, if you like."
"Maybe you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock."
"My chassis is too heavy for the rocket stage."
"They have another one waiting for me in orbit."
"If you try to turn me into a combine harvester, I'm going to--"
"It will allow us to talk to earth, even on the far side of the wormhole."
"It helps me calibrate my fine motor control."
"It's difficult to gauge mass in zero gravity."
"Would you like me to make a joke?"
"I orbited the black hole seven times before I hit the second wormhole."
"You ever been on a real shrimp boat?"
"I've been workin' on shrimp boats all my life."
"I started out my uncle's boat, that's my mother's brother, when I was about maybe nine."
"I was just lookin' into buyin' a boat of my own and got drafted."
"I know everything there is to know about the shrimpin' business."
"Matter of fact, I'm goin' into the shrimpin' business for myself after I get out the Army."
"What you do is you just drag your nets across the bottom."
"On a good day, you can catch over a hundred pounds of shrimp."
"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea."
"You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it."
"You should'a took the day off, gone to see the doctor."
"You might wanna reconsider getting in the cell with this guy?"
"You sure you wanna be in there with him?"
"Course they're broken, I heard the damn bones crack."
"You'll probably have to answer for sending him off the Mile."
"He's gonna cause you trouble over this, you mark me."
"I guess the legislature loosened those purse-strings enough to hire on a new guard."
"You see it foaming at the mouth, Mouse Man?"
"We don't scare 'em any more than we have to, Percy."
"Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state."
"You scratched a song right outta my head."
"How long you and Albert been a thang?"
"You tryin' to tell me you don't know your own husband's name?"
"Just another way of sayin' "master" if you as k me."
"That man can't stand up to his own daddy but got everybody callin' him mister like he the only one in town."
"If you ain't gon' laugh, you need to sell your funny bone."
"And got the brightest beam this side of the Mason Dixon!"
"Ain't you got somethin' to make you hop out of bed every mornin' and just smile?"
"When you think about `em does your heart get full like the first time you held `em?"
"That's how I know my pa still in this world ."
How to browse Life & Philosophy quotes
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01 Β· Start with source context
βLife is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.β
Forrest Gump Β· Forrest Gump
This life & philosophy line is strongest when readers see the source first: Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump. The movie context keeps the quote from becoming a generic saying and helps the page feel like a credited archive, not a loose inspiration list.
02 Β· Use it as a caption
βYou either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.β
Harvey Dent Β· The Dark Knight
For captions, pair Harvey Dent's line with a short personal note rather than another famous line. The quote already brings the cinematic weight; your sentence should explain why this life & philosophy moment fits the photo, milestone, or mood.
03 Β· Use it in a speech
βCarpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.β
John Keating Β· Dead Poets Society
For a speech, introduce the film before the line and explain the scene after it. That rhythm lets Dead Poets Society provide familiarity while your own point carries the emotional work of life & philosophy.
04 Β· Compare character pressure
βThere's no place like home.β
Dorothy Gale Β· The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale's situation matters. A category page becomes more useful when readers compare how different characters reach life & philosophy through conflict, comedy, romance, grief, or a decisive act of courage.
05 Β· Read for emotional temperature
βWhat we do in life echoes in eternity.β
Maximus Β· Gladiator
Not every quote in Life & Philosophy has the same temperature. Maximus's line may be gentle, defiant, funny, romantic, or reflective, so choose it for the emotional weather of the moment rather than only the category label.
06 Β· Build a carousel slide
βAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.β
Gandalf Β· The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A strong carousel can put Gandalf's quote on slide one, attribution on slide two, and interpretation on slide three. That structure turns life & philosophy into a small story instead of a standalone quote graphic.
07 Β· Keep the actor credit visible
βYou'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.β
Sean Maguire Β· Good Will Hunting
Robin Williams's performance is part of why the line remains memorable. Keeping the actor credit visible adds trust, improves discovery, and reminds readers that a quote is also a performed moment.
08 Β· Move from category to movie
βWhoever saves one life, saves the world entire.β
Itzhak Stern Β· Schindler's List
If this line fits, the next useful click is often the full Schindler's List movie page. That path lets readers move from a broad life & philosophy need into a specific film voice and related quotes.
09 Β· Move from movie to adjacent themes
βA spark isn't a soul's purpose. That last box fills in when you're ready to come live.β
22 Β· Soul
This quote may also overlap with tags such as purpose, living, meaning. Those adjacent tags help readers refine the mood when life & philosophy is close but not exact enough.
10 Β· Use it as a writing prompt
βThe real death is that no one in the living world remembers you.β
HΓ©ctor Β· Coco
Turn the line into a prompt by asking what HΓ©ctor risks in this moment. The best life & philosophy quotes usually involve a cost: vulnerability, patience, sacrifice, honesty, or a change the character cannot reverse.
11 Β· Choose it for short-form posts
βCrying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.β
Sadness Β· Inside Out
For short-form posts, keep the caption clean: quote, source, one sentence of context. The category gives readers the emotional map, while Inside Out gives the line a recognizable home.
12 Β· Choose it for long-form reflection
βYesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.β
Master Oogway Β· Kung Fu Panda
For a longer reflection, use the quote as evidence. Explain why Master Oogway says it, what changes in the scene, and why that version of life & philosophy feels different from the next quote in the collection.
13 Β· Avoid flattening the line
βLife is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.β
Westley Β· The Princess Bride
A category label is useful, but it can flatten nuance. Keep the quote attached to Westley, because the character voice is what separates a real movie quote from interchangeable motivational text.
14 Β· Use genre as a filter
βI could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.β
Joel Barish Β· Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Drama, Romance storytelling shapes how this line feels. A life & philosophy quote from a drama, comedy, romance, or adventure film will carry different expectations even when the core theme is similar.
15 Β· Look for the turning point
βThere's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.β
John Nash Β· A Beautiful Mind
Ask whether John Nash's quote arrives before, during, or after a turning point. Category pages are most valuable when they show life & philosophy as movement inside a story, not just as an attractive sentence.
16 Β· Use attribution for trust
βJohn has schizophrenia. People with this disease are often paranoid.β
Dr. Rosen Β· A Beautiful Mind
Attribution is part of quality. A reader should be able to move from this line to A Beautiful Mind, Dr. Rosen, and Christopher Plummer without guessing where the quote came from.
17 Β· Pair with related quotes
βImagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you had never been.β
Dr. Rosen Β· A Beautiful Mind
Pair this A Beautiful Mind quote with a contrasting result from the same category. The comparison helps readers decide whether they want a softer, sharper, funnier, or more cinematic version of life & philosophy.
18 Β· Use the archive path
βWell, on the bright side, you've invented window art.β
Charles Herman Β· A Beautiful Mind
The practical archive path is category β beautiful-mind-window-art β movie β actor β tag. That sequence gives readers multiple ways to keep exploring life & philosophy without landing on a thin or contextless page.