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My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994 Hello. My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump. — Forrest Gump · 1994 I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Forrest Gump · 1994 Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Forrest Gump · 1994 My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. — Forrest Gump · 1994 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 · 1994 All 13 quotes →

John Keating10 quotes

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989 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 · 1989 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 · 1989 No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989 Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women. — John Keating · 1989 We 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 · 1989 All 10 quotes →

Tony Montana7 quotes

Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983 The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. — Tony Montana · 1983 In 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 · 1983 You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!" — Tony Montana · 1983 You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked! — Tony Montana · 1983 All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. Do you understand? — Tony Montana · 1983 All 7 quotes →

Gordon Gekko6 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 · 1987 The most valuable commodity I know of is information. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 If you need a friend, get a dog. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 I 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 · 1987 The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market and you're a part of it. Yeah, you got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I still got a lot to teach you. — Gordon Gekko · 1987 It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. — Gordon Gekko · 1987

Jesse6 quotes

If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me. — Jesse · 2013 But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013 Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know? — Jesse · 2004 You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded to stay motivated. — Jesse · 2013 Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want. — Jesse · 2004 You know what I think? I think its from the time we leave our parents house until we have kids - that's the only time your life is completely your own. You know I think I had about a decade of that. It was great. It was just like one long, flowing... a day, a week, a year, there wasn't much difference. — Jesse · 2013

Sean6 quotes

You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. — Sean · 1997 You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997 People 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 · 1997 You'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 · 1997 You 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 · 1997 He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997

Tyler Durden6 quotes

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999 Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. — Tyler Durden · 1999 The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999 It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999 How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? — Tyler Durden · 1999 We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. — Tyler Durden · 1999

Antonius Block5 quotes

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957 We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957 Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957 Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. — Antonius Block · 1957 My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957

Mike McDermott5 quotes

Generally the rule is: the nicer the guy, the poorer the card player. — Mike McDermott · 1998 It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money. — Mike McDermott · 1998 If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. — Mike McDermott · 1998 In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player," Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career." It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how I lost it. — Mike McDermott · 1998 If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998

Blake4 quotes

Always be closing. — Blake · 1992 We'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 · 1992 Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only. — Blake · 1992 Because only one thing counts in this life. Get them to sign on the line which is dotted. — Blake · 1992

Daniel Plainview4 quotes

I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! — Daniel Plainview · 2007 There are times when I...I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone. — Daniel Plainview · 2007 I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Plainview · 2007 One night, I'm gonna come inside your house, wherever you're sleeping...and I'm gonna cut your throat. — Daniel Plainview · 2007

George Hanson4 quotes

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em. — George Hanson · 1969 Talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. — George Hanson · 1969 You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. — George Hanson · 1969 Oh, 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 · 1969

Malcolm X4 quotes

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us! — Malcolm X · 1992 Brothers 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 · 1992 Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race. I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone who has not been proven guilty. I'm not a racist and do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. Now my first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong, for we, more than any others, are deprived of our inalienable rights. But I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and the souls of all Americans. — Malcolm X · 1992 You are not an American, you are the victim of America! — Malcolm X · 1992

Maximus Decimus Meridius4 quotes

Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000 Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000 Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000 Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000

Rocky Balboa4 quotes

One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time. — Rocky Balboa · 2015 Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015 You see this guy here staring back at you? That's your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that's who you're going against. I believe that in boxing and I do believe that in life. — Rocky Balboa · 2015 You can't learn anything when you're talking. That's a fact of life. As long as you're talking, you're not listening. — Rocky Balboa · 2015

Al Capone3 quotes

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say, "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." — Al Capone · 1987 What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man...a man stands alone at a plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field...what is he? You follow me? No one. — Al Capone · 1987 People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging—what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone · 1987

Andy Dufresne3 quotes

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994 You 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 · 1994 Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994

Bud Fox3 quotes

How much is enough? — Bud Fox · 1987 Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. — Bud Fox · 1987 All warfare is based on deception. Sun Tzu. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not, split and reevaluate. — Bud Fox · 1987

Celine3 quotes

I 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 · 2004 But not knowing is not so bad. I mean, the point is to be looking, searching. To stay hungry, right? — Celine · 2013 You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details. — Celine · 2004

Col. Nathan R. Jessep3 quotes

You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992 Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992 Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding3 quotes

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994 Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994 I'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 · 1994

Furious Styles3 quotes

Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children. — Furious Styles · 1991 Well, 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 · 1991 I'll tell you why. For the same reason that there is a liquor store on almost every corner in the black community. Why? They want us to kill ourselves. — Furious Styles · 1991

Tony D'Amato3 quotes

On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999 You'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 · 1999 Come on, if you're act like a loser, raise your hand. If you're gonna act like pussy, raise your hand. — Tony D'Amato · 1999

Walt Kowalski3 quotes

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me. — Walt Kowalski · 2008 Get off my lawn! — Walt Kowalski · 2008 Yeah. I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. — Walt Kowalski · 2008

Atticus Finch2 quotes

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Atticus Finch · 1962 There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from ya. That's never possible. — Atticus Finch · 1962

Blanche DuBois2 quotes

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. — Blanche DuBois · 1951 I don't want realism. I want magic! — Blanche DuBois · 1951

Chiron2 quotes

I wanna do a lotta things that don’t make sense. — Chiron · 2016 Shit, I cry so much sometimes I feel I’m a just turn into droplets. — Chiron · 2016

Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)2 quotes

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946 You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946

Danny2 quotes

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. — Danny · 1998 It's hard to look back and see the truth about people you love. — Danny · 1998

Det. Virgil Tibbs2 quotes

They've got a murder they don't know what to do with. They need a whipping boy. — Det. Virgil Tibbs · 1967 There'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 · 1967

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