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32 quotes

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 7.2

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

Always let your conscience be your guide.

Jiminy Cricket

Pinocchio · 1940

★ 6.9

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You may keep one of your children. The other one must go.

SS Doctor

Sophie's Choice · 1982

★ 6.9

Essay · Historical literature · Political literature

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852

★ 6.3

Biography · Historical literature

The die is cast.

Julius Caesar

Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars · 49 BC

★ 5.7

Psychological literature

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.4

Philosophical literature

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or · 1843

★ 5.3

Psychological literature

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James

The Principles of Psychology · 1890

★ 5.3

Novel

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 4.0

Novel

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · 1998

★ 4.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos · 2002

★ 4.0

Novel · Fantasy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

1954

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

How long will you waver between two opinions?

Elijah

1st Kings 18:21 · 538 BC

★ 3.7

Film · Action (film) · Adventure (film) · Action · Adventure

You chose poorly.

Grail Knight

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · 1989

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Jake Sully

Avatar · 2009

★ 3.7

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

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

Juan

Moonlight · 2016

★ 3.7

Film · Dystopian (film) · Crime (film) · Dystopian · Crime

Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Prison Governor

A Clockwork Orange · 1971

★ 3.6

Children's literature

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go! · 1990

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit.

Mark Renton

Trainspotting · 1996

★ 3.6

Drama (film) · Drama

If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?

Mike McDermott

Rounders · 1998

★ 2.3

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