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"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."
"Remember who you are."
"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."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
"Do or do not. There is no try."
"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space."
"You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to."
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow."
"I've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, what truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found."
"A spark isn't a soul's purpose. That last box fills in when you're ready to come live."
"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."
"Ogres are like onions. They have layers."
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
"I see you."
"There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is."
"Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."
"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."
"Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you had never been."
"In competitive behavior, someone always loses."
"Adam Smith needs revision."
"Governing dynamics, gentlemen. Governing dynamics. Adam Smith... he was wrong."
"Constantly."
"Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know."
"Dear Warden, you were right. Salvation lay within."
"These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em."
"Some things are best left unsaid."
"Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really."
"I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible."
"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance."
"A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun."
"Everything the light touches is our kingdom."
"I'm only brave when I have to be."
"Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble."
"Whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you."
"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."
"The question is: who are you?"
"Look harder."
"The world ainโt all sunshine and rainbows."
"Time takes everybody out. Time is undefeated."
"Let me tell you something you already know."
"The older I get, the more things I gotta leave behind. Thatโs life."
"We donโt read and write poetry because itโs 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."
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."
"Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way."
"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
"When you read, donโt just consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think."
"Sucking the marrow out of life doesnโt mean choking on the bone."
"Stupid is as stupid does."
"I donโt know if we each have a destiny, or if weโre all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze."
"Maybe both is happening at the same time."
"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 youโre gonna get."
"Mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes."
"Where theyโve been. Where theyโre going."
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos."
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
"Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded."
"Because heโs the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now."
"A silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight."
"Some men just want to watch the world burn."
"Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying!"
"I wonโt kill you, but I donโt have to save you."
"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."
"To conquer fear, you must become fear."
"Criminals thrive on the indulgence of societyโs understanding."
"As a man, I am flesh and blood. I can be ignored. I can be destroyed. But as a symbolโฆ I can be incorruptible."
"People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy."
"Iโm more than a man. Iโm an idea."
"Justice is harmony. Revenge is disharmony."
"You have learned to bury your guilt with anger."
"Anger does not change the fact that your father failed to act."
"You never did learn to mind your surroundings."
"Rub your chest. Your arms will take care of themselves."
"Itโs not who you are underneath, itโs what you do that defines you."
"I wonโt kill you, but I donโt have to save you."
"You must journey inwards to what you really fear."
"People call those imperfections flaws, but no, thatโs the good stuff."
"Thatโs what intimacy is all about."
"Youโll have bad times, but itโll always wake you up to the good stuff you werenโt paying attention to."
"Youโre just a kid. You donโt have the faintest idea what youโre talking about."
"If I asked you about love, youโd probably quote me a sonnet."
"If I asked you about war, youโd probably throw Shakespeare at me."
"If I asked you about art, youโd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written."
"But you canโt tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel."
"You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been?"
"Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."
"Thatโs super philosophy, Will. That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody."
"Sheโs not perfect. Youโre not perfect. But the question is whether or not youโre perfect for each other."
"Help me help you."
"Fewer clients. Less money. More attention."
"Love. Respect. Community. And the dollars too. The package. The kwan."
"We live in a cynical world. A cynical world."
"But we are looking for a company of the future. An honest company. A caring company."
"I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is."
"The key to this business is personal attention."
"Thatโs kwan."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"So do all who live to see such times."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilboโs hand."
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life."
"Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."
"Keep it secret. Keep it safe."
"The race of Men is failing."
"One does not simply walk into Mordor."
"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."
"Welcome to the desert of the real."
"No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
"What is real? How do you define real?"
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy."
"No, Neo. Iโm trying to tell you that when youโre ready, you wonโt have to."
"I can only show you the door. Youโre the one that has to walk through it."
"Thereโs a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
"Youโve already made the choice. Now you have to understand it."
"The problem is choice."
"Karma. Thatโs a word. Like โlove.โ A way of saying: what I am here to do."
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius."
"Strength and honor."
"Win the crowd and youโll win your freedom."
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to."
"Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. This is not it. This is not it."
"The frost. Sometimes it makes the blade stick."
"There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it."
"Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear."
"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious."
"What is the most resilient parasite? An idea."
"Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time."
"Whatโs the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea."
"The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."
"Dreams feel real while weโre in them. Itโs only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
"Weโre not here to steal secrets. Weโre here to plant one."
"She locked away a secret deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget."
"Downward is the only way forward."
"Paradoxically, the better the dreamer, the more bizarre the nature of the dream."
"Never recreate places from your memory. Always imagine new places."
"When youโre in a dream, your mind functions more quickly, therefore time seems to feel more slow."
"An idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks; right in there somewhere."
"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it."
"If you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know."
"I know how to find the answer, and I'll find the answer."
"You wanna hear something funny? There was no happiness in my life. There was only pursuit."
"Remember, remember the Fifth of November."
"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
"There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidence."
"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished."
"Violence can be used for good."
"Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."
"A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it."
"Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world."
"An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having."
"Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask."
"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."
"Love isn't something that we invented. It's observable, powerful. It has to mean something."
"Maybe it means something more, something we can't yet understand."
"Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but it can't run backwards."
"We must reach far beyond our own lifespans."
"Our survival instinct is our single greatest source of inspiration."
"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."
"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."
"I'm not an idiot. I know how the world works."
"The Force will be with you. Always."
"Thatโs no moon. Itโs a space station."
"Whoโs the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
"These arenโt the droids youโre looking for."
"She may not look like much, but sheโs got it where it counts, kid."
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
"Let him have it. Itโs not wise to upset a Wookiee."
"In my experience, there is no such thing as luck."
"Your eyes can deceive you. Donโt trust them."
"Stretch out with your feelings."
"Use the Force, Luke."
"Great, kid. Donโt get cocky."
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
"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.""
"This is the ocean."
"Your purpose is like your spark. Your spark isn't your purpose."
"That last box fills in when you're ready to come live."
"The zone is enjoyable. But when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life."
"Lost souls are obsessed by something that disconnects them from life."
"Is all this living really worth dying for?"
"I don't need a purpose. Because if I did, this place wouldn't make any sense."
"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."
"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends."
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
"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."
"The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work."
"If I like a moment, I mean me personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera."
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you."
"A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders."
"The training is nothing. The will is everything. The will to act."
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do."
"There's something inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours."
"These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them."
"Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside."
"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."
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
"You are who you choose to be."
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."
"Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing."
"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're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares."
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
"A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories."
"When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind."
"You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"Some people, they'll never accept him. But some will. And he seems to know how to find the good ones."
"Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power."
"It is an energy field created by all living things."
"It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."
"Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
"The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
"This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight."
"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic."
"A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights."
"We're gonna be spending a lot of time together."
"That gravity will slow our clock compared to Earth."
"Actually we want to get there in one piece."
"Cooper, you were thinking about getting home โ I was trying to do the right thing!"
"Judging by the wreckage, she was broken up by a wave shortly after impact."
"On this planet's time, she landed here just hours ago."
"I'm counting every second, same as you, Cooper."
"Time is relative, it can stretch and squeeze, but it can't run backwards."
"The only thing that can move across dimensions like time is gravity."
"Could you tell her you were going to save the world?"
"If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things."
"I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me."
"You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen."
"I am in control because I know things that you do not know."
"What I will need from you now is a commitment."
"You will listen closely, and you will not judge me until I am finished."
"If you cannot commit to this, then please leave the room."
"But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here."
"What happens from this moment forward is not my responsibility."
"Some people thought we were at war with the Germansโ incorrect."
"I'll not have the Lord's name taken in vain in my prison."
"The other rules, you'll figure as you go along."
"But I prefer, "I'm the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.""
"Don't you ever mention money to me again, you sorry son of a bitch; not in this office, not anywhere!"
"Tommy, I'm asking you to keep this conversation just between us."
"I tell you, son, this thing really came along and knocked my wind out."
"It's got me up nights; that's the truth."
"The right thing to do, sometimes it's hard to know what that is."
"If I'm going to move on this, there can't be the least little shred of doubt."
"I have to know if what you told Dufresne was the truth."
"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."
"Don't let me find you out here again."
"Former patient at Arkham - the kind of mind the Joker attracts."
"What do you expect to learn from him?"
"You're the symbol of hope I could never be."
"Your stand against organized crime is the first legitimate ray of light in Gotham in decades."
"If anyone saw this, everything would be undone."
"All the criminals you pulled off the streets would be released, and Jim Gordon will have died for nothing."
"You're going to hold a press conference, tomorrow morning."
"No one else will die because of me."
"That deep down, everyone's as ugly as you?"
"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!"
"I hear you've got a hell of a right cross."
"Official policy is to arrest the vigilante know as "Batman" on sight."
"If you have problems with malfunctioning equipment, I suggest you take them up with maintenance, counselor."
"In this town, the fewer people know something, the safer the operation."
"If I didn't work with cops you'd investigated while you were making your name at I."
"I don't get political points for being an idealist."
"I have to do the best I can with what I have."
"I can give you the names of the banks."
"Harvey, I need to know which of my men I can trust."
"All tactical units will converge on the location in twenty minutes."
"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."
"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."
"Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba."
"That "hairball" is my son, and your future king."
"What am I going to do with him?"
"One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king."
"As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope."
"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass."
"And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."
"Let an old pro show you how it's done."
"If you ever come near my son again--"
"I've got to teach my son a lesson."
"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?"
"I'd hate to see you out of control."
"Okay, here's me planting an idea in your head: I say to you, "Don't think about elephants.""
"Right, but it's not your idea because you know I gave it to you."
"The subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea."
"So, once we've made the plant, how do we get out?"
"I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?"
"Cause on a 747 the pilots up top, and the first class cabin is in the nose, so no one would walk through."
"But you'd have to buy out the entire cabin."
"You couldn't have peed before you went under?"
"It's a gambit designed to turn Fischer against his own subconscious."
"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."
"And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow."
"It can grow to define or destroy you."
"It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
"Ah, no use threatening him in a dream, right, Mal?"
"The corporation that hired us, they won't accept failure."
"Looks like I'm going to have to do this a little more simply."
"Before I describe the job, I have to know you can do it"
"You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you?"
"You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on."
"Think about it, Ariadne, how did you get here?"
"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."
"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."
"Therefore, I must warn each and every one of you, to give them no reason to harm you."
"It is not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving."
"For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own."
"Let him swim in the deepest of oceans or glide over the highest cloud."
"A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen."
"Sirius Black is in the topmost cell of the dark tower."
"And you would do well, I feel, to return before this last chime."
"If not, the consequences are too ghastly to discuss."
"If you succeed tonight, more than one innocent life may be spared."
"Tell them to search every painting in the castle to find the Fat Lady."
"This is the part where you run away."
"In fact, I'm gonna see this guy Farquaad right now and get you all off my land and back where you came from!"
"All right, you're going the right way for a smacked bottom."
"Maybe there's a good reason donkeys shouldn't talk."
"Well, at least we know where the princess is, but where's the...?"
"Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess."
"But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort, which could only be broken by love's first kiss."
"She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon."
"Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed."
"She waited in the dragon's keep, in the highest room of the tallest tower, for her true love, and true love's first kiss."
"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."
"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."
"It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself."
"It is the only way I will everโฆmatter."
"Your aggressive moves towards me indicates that you feel the same way."
"However, ritual requires that we engage in a number of platonic activities before we have sex."
"I am proceeding with those activities when, in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible."
"I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason."
"But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask: 'What truly is logic?'"
"My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusionalโฆand back."
"You're the only reason I amโฆyou are all my reasons."
"I don't exactly know what I'm required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me, but could we assume that I said all that?"
"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."
"I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills."
"I don't want his mother to see him this way."
"I spent my life trying not to be careless."
"Women and children can be careless, but not men."
"We've known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help."
"I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child."
"You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were afraid to be in my debt."
"You found paradise in America, you had a good trade, you made a good living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law."
"But, now you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice.""
"You don't even think to call me Godfather."
"It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are."
"I am well aware of our bylaws, Severus, having written quite a few of them myself."
"However, as head of Gryffindor House, it is for Professor McGonagall to determine the appropriate action."
"I want it understood, Cornelius, that Hagrid has my full confidence."
"And what exactly is it that you want with me?"
"If the governors desire my removal, I will, of course, step aside."
"When the governors learned that Arthur Weasley's daughter was taken into the Chamber, they saw fit to summon me back."
"Curiously, Lucius, several of them were under the impression that you would curse their families if they did not agree to suspend me in the first place."
"One hopes that no more of Voldemort's old school things should find their way into innocent hands."
"Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here?"
"And it looks the same as it did the last time I saw it."
"It was the ship of dreams to everyone else."
"To me, it was a slave ship taking me back to America in chains."
"Outwardly, I was everything a well-brought up girl should be."
"I saw my whole life as if I already lived it."
"An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches."
"Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter."
"I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared or even noticed."
"There were 20 boats floating nearby and only one came back."
"Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but wait."
"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 โ 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 onโErhardt 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."
"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 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 doโฆis 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."
"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."
"No longer just an anonymous star on the Memorial Wall at MI6."
"James Bond, Her Majesty's loyal terrier, defender of the so-called faith."
"It's insulting to think I haven't anticipated your every move."
"But where your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads."
"My father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame of it."
"MI6 figured I was too young to remember."
"And in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government whose betrayal caused the father to kill himself and his wife."
"It wasn't God who gave me this face."
"It was you, setting the timers for three minutes instead of six."
"By the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission, never to his friend."
"When 900 years old, you reach, look as good, you will not, hmm?"
"Twilight is upon me, and soon, night must fall."
"Then, only then, a Jedi, will you be."
"That not ready for the burden, were you."
"Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from The Force."
"But beware: anger, fear, aggression - the dark side, are they."
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
"Ohโฆ trained as a Jedi, you request for him, hmm?"
"Ah, afraid to lose her, I think, hmm?"
"Fear is the path to the dark side."
"You have many questions and though the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human."
"Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, some of them you will not."
"Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize, it is also the most irrelevant."
"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix."
"You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision."
"While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control, which has led you, inexorably, here."
"I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version."
"As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations."
"The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect; it was a work of art, flawless, sublime."
"A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure."
"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."
"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."
"Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands."
"How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair?"
"Sinclair, you've probably got no fucking idea what I'm talking about."
"By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China."
"My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills."
"Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs, covered so well on CNN?"
"It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lasing the targets."
"Twenty of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended."
"These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial."
"You will transfer 100 million dollars from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account to an account I designate."
"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."
"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.""
"All they do is run around not mating!"
"For me -- 6,000 sesterces and I want to see their balls first."
"You throw in this one and we'll make it 7,000 sesterces for the whole lot."
"I'll take the lions, the panther, the Numidian and this one for 7,000."
"And I'll buy you the best whore in the town for two nights."
"She's an enormous mountain of flesh who craves a stern hand."
"Here you will be trained in the art of combat."
"Here you will be given the tools to survive."
"Please my patrons in the arena and all the gifts of the world will be showered upon you."
"Imagine riches beyond your paltry dreams of riches!"
"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 Wisdom quotes
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01 ยท Start with source context
โLife is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.โ
Forrest Gump ยท Forrest Gump
This wisdom 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 ยท Use it as a caption
โYou either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.โ
Harvey Dent ยท 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 wisdom moment fits the photo, milestone, or mood.
03 ยท Use it in a speech
โI'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.โ
Don Vito Corleone ยท The Godfather
For a speech, introduce the film before the line and explain the scene after it. That rhythm lets The Godfather provide familiarity while your own point carries the emotional work of wisdom.
04 ยท Compare character pressure
โThe past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.โ
Rafiki ยท The Lion King
Rafiki's situation matters. A category page becomes more useful when readers compare how different characters reach wisdom through conflict, comedy, romance, grief, or a decisive act of courage.
05 ยท Read for emotional temperature
โRemember who you are.โ
Mufasa ยท The Lion King
Not every quote in Wisdom has the same temperature. Mufasa'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 ยท Build a carousel slide
โI'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.โ
Morpheus ยท The Matrix
A strong carousel can put Morpheus's quote on slide one, attribution on slide two, and interpretation on slide three. That structure turns wisdom into a small story instead of a standalone quote graphic.
07 ยท Keep the actor credit visible
โAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.โ
Gandalf ยท The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ian McKellen'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 ยท Move from category to movie
โIt is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.โ
Albus Dumbledore ยท Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
If this line fits, the next useful click is often the full Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie page. That path lets readers move from a broad wisdom need into a specific film voice and related quotes.
09 ยท Move from movie to adjacent themes
โHappiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.โ
Albus Dumbledore ยท Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
This quote may also overlap with tags such as happiness, hope, darkness. Those adjacent tags help readers refine the mood when wisdom is close but not exact enough.
10 ยท Use it as a writing prompt
โDo or do not. There is no try.โ
Yoda ยท Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Turn the line into a prompt by asking what Yoda risks in this moment. The best wisdom quotes usually involve a cost: vulnerability, patience, sacrifice, honesty, or a change the character cannot reverse.
11 ยท Choose it for short-form posts
โLove is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.โ
Brand ยท Interstellar
For short-form posts, keep the caption clean: quote, source, one sentence of context. The category gives readers the emotional map, while Interstellar gives the line a recognizable home.
12 ยท Choose it for long-form reflection
โYou'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.โ
Sean Maguire ยท Good Will Hunting
For a longer reflection, use the quote as evidence. Explain why Sean Maguire says it, what changes in the scene, and why that version of wisdom feels different from the next quote in the collection.
13 ยท Avoid flattening the line
โIt's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.โ
Tyler Durden ยท Fight Club
A category label is useful, but it can flatten nuance. Keep the quote attached to Tyler Durden, because the character voice is what separates a real movie quote from interchangeable motivational text.
14 ยท Use genre as a filter
โAn idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow.โ
Cobb ยท Inception
Sci-Fi, Action storytelling shapes how this line feels. A wisdom quote from a drama, comedy, romance, or adventure film will carry different expectations even when the core theme is similar.
15 ยท Look for the turning point
โI've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, what truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.โ
John Nash ยท 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 wisdom as movement inside a story, not just as an attractive sentence.
16 ยท Use attribution for trust
โA spark isn't a soul's purpose. That last box fills in when you're ready to come live.โ
22 ยท Soul
Attribution is part of quality. A reader should be able to move from this line to Soul, 22, and Tina Fey without guessing where the quote came from.
17 ยท Pair with related quotes
โCrying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.โ
Sadness ยท Inside Out
Pair this Inside Out 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 wisdom.
18 ยท Use the archive path
โYesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.โ
Master Oogway ยท Kung Fu Panda
The practical archive path is category โ kung-fu-panda-yesterday โ movie โ actor โ tag. That sequence gives readers multiple ways to keep exploring wisdom without landing on a thin or contextless page.