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If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966All 44 quotes →Biography (film)44 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966All 44 quotes →Drama12 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966I 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 · 1992All 12 quotes →Drama (film)12 quotes
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. — Malcolm X · 1992God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes. — Sir Thomas More · 1966I 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 · 1992All 12 quotes →Sports9 quotes
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody except yourself. — Fortune · 1993Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000All 9 quotes →Sports (film)9 quotes
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody except yourself. — Fortune · 1993Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000All 9 quotes →War8 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969All 8 quotes →War (film)8 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969All 8 quotes →Adventure drama6 quotes
The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences. — Chris McCandless · 2007And just remember if you want something in life, reach out and grab it. — Chris McCandless · 2007Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. — Chris McCandless · 2007Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things. — Chris McCandless · 2007Adventure drama (film)6 quotes
The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences. — Chris McCandless · 2007And just remember if you want something in life, reach out and grab it. — Chris McCandless · 2007Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. — Chris McCandless · 2007Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things. — Chris McCandless · 2007Adventure1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Adventure (film)1 quote
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Crime1 quote
Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling? — Aunt Emma · 2013Crime (film)1 quote
Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling? — Aunt Emma · 2013Historical drama1 quote
A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North? — Abraham Lincoln · 2012Historical drama (film)1 quote
A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North? — Abraham Lincoln · 2012Musical1 quote
Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005Musical (film)1 quote
Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005