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Novel · Fantasy

Not all those who wander are lost.

1954

★ 7.3

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 7.1

TV news · TV program

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 6.9

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

1954

★ 5.9

Autobiography and memoir

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles de Gaulle

1954

★ 5.4

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone... We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka · 1954

★ 5.3

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

I'm Not Stiller · 1954

★ 5.0

Play · Comedy (play)

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Thornton Wilder

1954

★ 4.5

Novel · Fantasy

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

1954

★ 3.9

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 3.8

Film · Mystery (film) · Thriller (film) · Mystery · Thriller

Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along.

Rear Window · 1954

★ 3.7

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 3.6

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?

1954

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1954

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

1954

★ 3.5

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

1954

★ 3.5

I define a recession as when your neighbor loses his job, but a depression is when you lose your own.

1954

★ 3.5

Historical literature

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

1954

★ 3.4

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. It is our way of escape from the use of torture.

William O. Douglas

1954

★ 3.4

Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.

Sabrina Fairchild

Sabrina · 1954

★ 2.9

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