2013

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. And for more than two hundred years, we have.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 3.7

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

Lord Baelish

Game of Thrones · 2013

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Everything you touch turns to shit, like King Midas's idiot brother.

Jean

Inside Llewyn Davis · 2013

★ 3.7

Novel

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage · 2013

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me.

It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through.

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

Natalia (Before Midnight)

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real.

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 3.6

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

2013

★ 3.5

Speech · Commencement address

Err in the direction of kindness.

George Saunders

2013

★ 3.5

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

I don't want to survive. I want to live.

Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave · 2013

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat, and cats are pointless.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2013

★ 2.1

We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 2.0

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 2.0

We have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded to stay motivated.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

But not knowing is not so bad. I mean, the point is to be looking, searching. To stay hungry, right?

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

Celine

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2013

★ 2.0

Film · Biography (film) · Crime (film) · Biography · Crime

Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling?

Aunt Emma

The Wolf of Wall Street · 2013

★ 2.0

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

You know you don't want to go anywhere, and that's why the same shit is going to keep happening to you, because you want it to.

Jean

Inside Llewyn Davis · 2013

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

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.

Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it.

Before Midnight · 2013

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

James Turrell

2013

★ 1.8

Interview

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

Malala Yousafzai

2013

★ 1.3

Interview · Newspaper

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

Pope Francis

2013

★ 1.3

Newspaper

I've often fantasized I would get a lot of writing done if I were put in prison for a minor crime. Three to six months.

Amy Tan

2013

★ 1.2

We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 1.2

The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.