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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999I am Death. — Death · 1957We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957All 14 quotes →Love9 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Forrest Gump · 1994What you call love was invented by guys like me... To sell Nylons. — Don Draper · 2007You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies. — Jons · 1957All 9 quotes →Life8 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers. — Mason Sr. · 2014Every day above ground is a good day. — Bernstein · 1983It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004We 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. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — John Keating · 1989All 8 quotes →Inner city issues7 quotes
Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit. — The Old Man · 1991You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs. — Howard "Bunny" Colvin · 2006Either they don't know...don't show...or don't care about what's going on in the hood. — Doughboy · 1991I'm down. But, I'm down for somethin' positive in the community. Are you down for that? — Jade · 1989Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood? — Buggin Out · 1989Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here. — Furious Styles · 1991All 7 quotes →Prison7 quotes
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. — Officer Jim Kurring · 1999I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank. — Warden Samuel Norton · 1994I'm tellin' you, these walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time. — Det. Virgil Tibbs · 1967All 7 quotes →Men and women6 quotes
Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women, women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else! — Alice Harford · 1999Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never. — Paul · 1972In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. — Belinda (Fleabag) · 2019The last time I trusted you we ended up with a son. — Tina · 1989Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940The human condition6 quotes
I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time. — Forrest Gump · 1994We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through. — Natalia (Before Midnight) · 2013Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other. — Tennessee Williams · 1955The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead. — Mr. Peanutbutter · 2014America5 quotes
America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! — Israel Zangwill · 1908In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. — Tony Montana · 1983You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. — George Hanson · 1969I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America. — Anita · 1961We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country, Monty. It's beautiful out there, looks like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. — James Brogan · 2002Decisions and choices5 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. — Tony Soprano · 2002At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998Facing death5 quotes
We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking… — Percy Wetmore · 1999No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957When you die, you're gonna regret the things that you don't do. — Ricky Roma · 1992Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace. — Mike Ehrmantraut · 2012My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Freedom5 quotes
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. — George Hanson · 1969But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be. — John Keating · 1989Money5 quotes
Man, money ain’t got no owners. Only spenders. — Omar Little · 2006How much is enough? — Bud Fox · 1987When making a business decision, the only color that matters, Jesus, is green. — Dom Pagnotti · 1998Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941The main thing about money, Bud, is makes you do things you don't want to do. — Lou Mannheim · 1987Nature of love5 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies. — Jons · 1957But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013Relationships5 quotes
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. — Sean · 1997I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other. — Sean · 1997You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997The past5 quotes
My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. — Forrest Gump · 1994Yeah now, well, the thing about the old days... They the old days. — Slim Charles · 2006The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. — Old Paul Edgecomb · 1999Capitalism4 quotes
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind. — Gordon Gekko · 1987Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth. — Ray Kroc · 2016We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. — Blake · 1992You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked! — Tony Montana · 1983Fear of death4 quotes
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Friendship4 quotes
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946Bubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. — Forrest Gump · 1994You can be my wingman anytime. — Ice · 1986You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982God4 quotes
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! — Jesus · 1988Leadership4 quotes
All due respect, you got no fucking idea what it’s like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fucking thing. It’s too much to deal with almost and, in the end, you’re completely alone with it all. — Tony Soprano · 2004You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first—the leader of a team—who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe. That's a quarterback. — Tony D'Amato · 1999You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. — Junior Soprano · 2001You know, when Khruschev was forced out, he sat down and he wrote two letters and gave them to his successor. He said, "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter." Well, soon enough, this guy found himself in a tight place so you open the first letter which says blame everything on me. So he blamed the old man, it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation he couldn't get out of, he opened the second letter. It said, "Sit down, and write two letters." — General Ralph Landry · 2000Modern life4 quotes
Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom. — Madeleine Zimmer · 1966Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they’re just not talking about it or I am completely fucking alone. — Fleabag · 2016The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. — Brooks Hatlen · 1994No, I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat. What to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, what not to joke about. I want someone to tell me what to believe in, who to vote for, who to love and how to tell them. — Fleabag · 2019Nature of women4 quotes
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. — Blanche DuBois · 1951In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. — Belinda (Fleabag) · 2019Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940Taking risks4 quotes
If you build it, he will come. — Shoeless Joe Jackson · 1989Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Til you find your dream. — Sister Margaretta · 1965You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought. — Gordon Gekko · 1987Aging3 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition. — Charley Malloy · 1954Ambition3 quotes
Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business. — Walter White · 2012Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute "plans" in my book. — Walter White · 2009Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education, but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top. — Tony Montana · 1983American decline3 quotes
We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket. — Frank Sobotka · 2003You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. — George Hanson · 1969Well, this country is becoming a haven for criminals so what do you expect? You know, decent hard-working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites. — Derek · 1998Being oneself3 quotes
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. — John Keating · 1989At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. — Juan · 2016I never wanted to be anybody else. — Wyatt · 1969Carpe diem3 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989Changing the world3 quotes
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? — John Keating · 1989No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992Consumerism3 quotes
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. — Tyler Durden · 1999