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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 13 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 →Love8 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 · 1994You 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 · 2013All 8 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 →Inner city issues6 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 · 1991Either 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 · 1991I'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 · 1991Freedom5 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 · 1989Nature 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 · 1997America4 quotes
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 · 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 · 2002Capitalism4 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 · 1983Decisions and choices4 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982At 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 death4 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 · 1992My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Fear 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 · 1988Men and women4 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 · 1972The 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 · 1940Money4 quotes
How 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 · 1987Taking 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 · 1987The human condition4 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) · 2013Aging3 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 · 1954Being 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 · 1999Counterfactual history3 quotes
If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices? — Mike McDermott · 1998You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941You’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) · 1946Doing the right thing3 quotes
Always do the right thing. — Da Mayor · 1989Now, I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. — Lt. Col. Frank Slade · 1992And what most people don't see is just how hard it is to do the right thing. — Officer Jim Kurring · 1999Gambling3 quotes
Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand. — Luke · 1967In "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 · 1998Rule number one: Throw in your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the hand. — Jo · 1998Giving up3 quotes
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Come on, if you're act like a loser, raise your hand. If you're gonna act like pussy, raise your hand. — Tony D'Amato · 1999There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. — Lt. Col. Frank Slade · 1992Living life to the fullest3 quotes
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — Andy Dufresne · 1994I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was. — Andrew · 2014Motivation3 quotes
There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job. — Fletcher · 2014I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them. I believe that is an absolute necessity. — Fletcher · 2014You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded
to stay motivated. — Jesse · 2013