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Religious literature42 quotes
If God be for us, who can be against us? — Apostle Paul · 56Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” — Pontius Pilate · 90What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Why seek ye the living among the dead? — Jesus · 61Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? — God · 62Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point? — William Chillingworth · 1637All 42 quotes →Comedy13 quotes
What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? — Chief Wiggum · 1998Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots? — Dr. Evil · 1997How you doin’? — Joey Tribbiani · 1998What if there were no tomorrow? — Phil · 1993That was stupid. How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off? — Mr. Jones · 1995That rug really tied the room together, did it not? — Walter Sobchak · 1998All 13 quotes →Philosophical literature11 quotes
For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse? — Plato · 370 BCWhat is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? — Epictetus · 135How, then, might we contrive... One noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city? — Socrates · 375 BCDo you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? — Lao Tzu · 400 BCMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? — Socrates · 360 BCAll 11 quotes →Drama10 quotes
Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip? — Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith · 2002The 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 · 1989Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999How much is enough? — Bud Fox · 1987All 10 quotes →Drama (film)9 quotes
Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip? — Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith · 2002The 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 · 1989Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999How much is enough? — Bud Fox · 1987All 9 quotes →Comedy (TV)7 quotes
What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? — Chief Wiggum · 1998Do you respect wood, Susie? — Larry David · 2009How you doin’? — Joey Tribbiani · 1998Siri, why does God allow suffering? — Mike McLintock · 2014Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991All 7 quotes →Comedy (film)7 quotes
Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots? — Dr. Evil · 1997What if there were no tomorrow? — Phil · 1993That was stupid. How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off? — Mr. Jones · 1995That rug really tied the room together, did it not? — Walter Sobchak · 1998All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? — Reg · 1979Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993All 7 quotes →Tragedy (play)6 quotes
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. — William Shakespeare · 1597Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare · 1607Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! — Christopher Marlowe · 1593What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare · 1597Et tu, Brutè? — William Shakespeare · 1599Comedy (play)5 quotes
Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? — William Shakespeare · 1616Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? — William Shakespeare · 1598How comes it
That thou art then estranged from thyself? — William Shakespeare · 1594Crime5 quotes
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. — Travis Bickle · 1976Can you dig it? — Cyrus · 1979I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?... How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny. — Tommy DeVito · 1990Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite? — Mr. Blonde · 1992Are you in the mafia? — Meadow Soprano · 1999Political speech5 quotes
Cui bono? — Cicero · 52 BCIf we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? — Abraham Lincoln · 1865That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? — Sojourner Truth · 1851What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? — John Adams · 1797What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? — Abraham Lincoln · 1860Comedy drama4 quotes
What if this is as good as it gets? — Melvin Udall · 1997Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you? — Ben Braddock · 1967Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small? — Edward Bloom · 2003Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Comedy drama (film)4 quotes
What if this is as good as it gets? — Melvin Udall · 1997Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you? — Ben Braddock · 1967Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small? — Edward Bloom · 2003Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?" — Daniel Hillard · 1993Crime (film)4 quotes
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. — Travis Bickle · 1976Can you dig it? — Cyrus · 1979I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?... How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny. — Tommy DeVito · 1990Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite? — Mr. Blonde · 1992Science fiction4 quotes
Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams · 1979Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean? — Marty McFly · 1985Wow. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? — Marty McFly · 1985Action3 quotes
Can you dig it? — Cyrus · 1979We talkin' or we racin'? — Dominic Toretto · 2011Are you scared of the fuckin' boogeyman? I'm not. — Isosef Tarasov · 2014Action (film)3 quotes
Can you dig it? — Cyrus · 1979We talkin' or we racin'? — Dominic Toretto · 2011Are you scared of the fuckin' boogeyman? I'm not. — Isosef Tarasov · 2014Folk music3 quotes
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?...
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind. — Bob Dylan · 1963How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan · 1962Musical3 quotes
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip? — Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith · 2002When did you last let your heart decide? — Aladdin · 1992Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that? — Professor Henry Higgins · 1964Musical (film)3 quotes
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip? — Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith · 2002When did you last let your heart decide? — Aladdin · 1992Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that? — Professor Henry Higgins · 1964Rock music3 quotes
I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me? — Beck · 1993Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four? — The Beatles · 1967Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? — Pink Floyd · 1979Science fiction (film)3 quotes
Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean? — Marty McFly · 1985Wow. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? — Marty McFly · 1985Sitcom3 quotes
How you doin’? — Joey Tribbiani · 1998Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991Adventure2 quotes
What would the world be like without Captain Hook? — Captain Hook · 1991Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963Adventure (film)2 quotes
What would the world be like without Captain Hook? — Captain Hook · 1991Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to our selves? — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643Someone ought to do it, so why not I? — Annie Besant · 1893Biography2 quotes
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. — John Nash · 2001Biography (film)2 quotes
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. — John Nash · 2001Courtroom drama2 quotes
Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket? — Juror #11 · 1957Courtroom drama (film)2 quotes
Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours? — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket? — Juror #11 · 1957