2005

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

2005

★ 6.9

Novel

Louise Erdrich

The Painted Drum · 2005

★ 6.8

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Jack Twist

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

★ 5.5

Novel · Western literature

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men · 2005

★ 5.4

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word police-the wordinistas-over at Webster's are gonna say, "Hey, that's not a word." Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books...I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart.

Stephen Colbert

The Colbert Report · 2005

★ 5.3

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty, unsexy ways, every day.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

2005

★ 5.2

Sermon

Pope Benedict XVI

2005

★ 5.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Would I rather be feared or loved? Um, easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

Michael Scott

The Office · 2005

★ 4.6

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

I don't care if you think I'm racist, I just want you to think I'm thin.

Sarah Silverman

Jesus is Magic · 2005

★ 3.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Truth that comes from the gut, not books.

Stephen Colbert

2005

★ 3.8

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

I'm a virgin. I always have been.

2005

★ 3.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

Andy

The 40-Year-Old Virgin · 2005

★ 3.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

Chazz Reinhold

Wedding Crashers · 2005

★ 3.8

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.7

It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth—hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I mean me personally, I don't understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you're white! Smile!

Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2005

★ 3.7

Film · Sports comedy (film) · Sports (film) · Sports comedy · Sports

Caretaker

The Longest Yard · 2005

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

A friend in need is a pest.

Jeremy Grey

Wedding Crashers · 2005

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

John Beckwith

Wedding Crashers · 2005

★ 3.7

Novel · Young adult fiction

If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

2005

★ 3.6

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe.

You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful-I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything...Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.6

Donald Trump

2005

★ 3.6

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on.

2005

★ 3.6

You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference.

2005

★ 3.6

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

Vladimir Putin

2005

★ 3.6

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believes it was the blacks.

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.5

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

Sarah Silverman

Jesus is Magic · 2005

★ 3.5

Film · Documentary (film)

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.

Werner Herzog

Grizzly Man · 2005

★ 3.5

Novel

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · 2005

★ 3.5

Novel

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · 2005

★ 3.5

Newspaper

Sometimes I think of the books I'll never read that would have changed my life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

2005

★ 3.5

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

As far as our marriage goes, we can do it over the phone.

Jack Twist

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.

Jack Twist

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

The problem most men have is they don't know how to talk to women.

Cal

The 40-Year-Old Virgin · 2005

★ 2.1

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom...because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul.

Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2005

★ 2.0

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2005

★ 2.0

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.