Famous and Infamous Quotations
Here is a complete list of quotes I've used in my story headers.
Thanks to Lance Dooly for getting this started.
"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time."
— unknown
there are no quotes in chapters 1 through 89
"Hey, nine is a lot of drow."
— one of the players
"I've got a baaaaad feeling about this."
— various _Star Wars_ characters
"There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing."
— Eugene Ionesco
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men"
— Charles de Gaulle
"They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night."
— Thulsa Doom
"Ah, peaceful and quiet, amigo."
"Like a graveyard, for instance?"
— Tuco & the Man With No Name
"Only the good die young
All the evil seem to live forever..."
— Iron Maiden
"There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage."
— Conan
"Getting caught is the mother of invention."
— Robert Byrne
"Shut up! I'm mad enough to bust something and it might be you! Now I've got questions and I expect answers."
— Colton
"I have not yet begun to fight."
"Well, hurry up then, we're losing!"
— variously attributed
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether _I_ win or lose."
— Darrin Weinberg
"But if for no other reason, Evil must be destroyed so that we can once more guide our own destinies."
— The Darkest Day
"When you've got talent like ours, the world is your oyster."
"Even foolery is dangerous in the hands of a fool."
— Calvin and Jasper
"You are meddling with powers that you cannot possibly comprehend"
— Marcus Brody
"As a rule, I hate reunions. They only seem to lead to more trouble than ever before."
— Yod Ironbeard, of the dwarves
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
— Thomas Jones
"When I start off to find somebody, I find them. That's why they pay me."
— Angel Eyes, from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"My son, we are pilgrims in a most unholy land."
— Henry (Dr.) Jones
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
— George Bernard Shaw
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it is one damn thing over and over."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
"We love to fly, and it shows."
— Delta Airlines
"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."
— Calvin
"I'm half asleep when something comes to me, softly... something out of synch with the rhythm of the forest...something that raises the small, primitive hairs on the back of my neck...the sound of something being eaten."
— Frank Castle, aka the Punisher
"There is no safety this side of the grave."
— from _Stranger in a Strange Land_
"Death is just a distant rumor to the young."
— Andy Rooney
"His blood _was_ red, after all."
— Conan of Cimmeria
"That is our fate - to kill or be killed. As with the great beasts of the jungle - eat or be eaten. And this day I will feed."
— Casca, the eternal mercenary
"It's just a bottle, for crying out loud! What could _possibly_ be inside that we have to worry about?"
— anonymous party member
"My axe is clean and sharp,
her blade is shining bright;
she's hungry for her midnight snack,
and heads will roll tonight..."
— Krokus, from _Headhunter_
"My men are not expendable. And we don't do this kind of work."
— Dutch Schaefer
"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
— Hermann Hesse
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
— Christopher Lasch
"This time, it seems, I was too clever for my own good."
— Conan of Cimmeria
"Apparently it was not as big a surprise as we had hoped for."
— a Cylon centurion, to the Imperious Leader
"All great things must come to an end."
— variously attributed
"It's good to see old friends again. Especially when they come from so far away, and they have so much to talk about. And you do have a lot to talk about, haven't you?"
— Angel Eyes, from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"Your persistence surprises even me. You're going to give mercenaries a bad name."
— Rene Belloq, from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
"I _know_ who the bad guys are: anybody that tries to hurt me."
— Locken, from _The Killer Elite_
"There's a limit to revenge."
"Well I guess I haven't reached mine yet."
— from _The Punisher_
"Come on! Who wants some?!?"
— Ash, from _Army of Darkness_
"The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it."
— P. B. Medawar
"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."
— Dr. Hannibal Lecter
"Remember, only _you_ can prevent forest fires."
— Smokey the Bear
"Men in masks cannot be trusted."
— Fezzik, from _The Princess Bride_
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas
"When the going gets tough, the smart get lost."
— Robert Byrne
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
— Barry LePatner
"He disagreed with something that ate him."
— note found on shark attack victim, _License To Kill_
"If I am to die, it will be with steel in my hand, not whimpering like some damned cur!"
— Conan of Cimmeria
"Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."
— Herodotus, c. 454 B.C.
"When ye be an anvil, hold ye still. When ye be a hammer, strike!"
— Jock Yablonski, from _Act of Vengeance_
"When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns."
— Raymond Chandler
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
— W. Somerset Maughm
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
— John Lennon
"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
— David Smith
"I'm not a good man. Not the worst, either. Just a breed apart."
— Butch Haynes, from _A Perfect World_
"Don't worry. They always get guys like me for jobs like this."
— Tom Cody, from _Streets of Fire_
"The difference between a mob and a trained regiment is that, when the dust clears, the regiment remains."
— unknown
"Originality is the art of concealing your sources."
— unknown
"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
— Mark Twain
"Everyone gets everything he wants; I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one."
— Willard, from _Apocalypse Now_
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
— Sacha Guitry
"Although we are the most intelligent creature on this planet, we are also the most inconsistent."
— from one of the _Faces of Death_ films
"Confidence is always overconfidence."
— Robert Byrne
"The dead can be very useful sometimes. They've helped me out of tough spots more than once."
— the Man With No Name, from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror."
— Gregory Boyington
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
— from _The Color of Money_
"Sure, I could have stayed there...could've even been king. But in my own way, I _am_ king."
— Ash, from _Army of Darkness_
"I never eat anything I cannot identify."
— Ramirez, from (sic) _Highlander II_
"You must outthink your opponent, whatever form he takes, because some of them will be more than just men."
— from _Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story_
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say."
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"The question is not who wishes to go, but who _will_ go."
— from _The Lord of the Rings_
"A wolf remains a wolf, even if it has not eaten your sheep."
— V.I.N.C.E.N.T., from _The Black Hole_
"Two leaps per chasm is fatal."
— Chinese proverb
"It is unpleasant to go alone, even to be drowned."
— Russian proverb
"Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on."
— Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"Snakes? I _hate_ snakes!"
— Indiana Jones
"I spent a lot of time learning not to react to things like other people do. It's my job. It doesn't always work."
— Frank Farmer, from _The Bodyguard_
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"
— Edith Evans
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad
"If I don't survive, then I'm not the man that's needed."
— Yuen Chung, from _The Killer Elite_
"You always taste so much better when you're afraid."
— "It", from (naturally) _It_
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."
— Mike Ditka
"We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave."
— from _The Lion In Winter_
"Fascinating...from a distance."
— from _The Black Hole_
"You see, we plan ahead - that way, we don't do anything right now."
— Val, from _Tremors_
"I am beyond their timid lying morality...and so, I am beyond caring."
— Colonel Kurtz, from _Apocalypse Now_
"Patience is _not_ one of my virtues."
— Simon Phoenix, from _Demolition Man_
"The world is a madhouse, so it's only right that it is patrolled by armed idiots."
— Brendan Behan
"He's not talkin' real good anymore. I killed him."
— Cates, from _Another 48 Hours_
"It is a crime to wander in my land without leave. Do you forget that you were in my kingdom, using the road that my people made?"
— the elven king, from _The Hobbit_
"By the time we've made it, we've had it."
— Malcolm Forbes
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"There is no normal life, Wyatt. There's just life."
— Doc Holiday, from _Tombstone_
"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to stand on the curb and clap as they go by."
— Will Rogers
"Hey, these are my kind of scum."
— Han Solo, from _Star Wars_
"I love it when a plan comes together."
— John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"Death has come to your small town, Sheriff."
— Dr. Loomis, from _Halloween_
"No good deed goes unpunished."
— variously attributed
"You ever seen anything like that before?"
"Hell, I ain't ever even _heard_ of anything like that!"
— from _Tombstone_
"Well, then, we are all rogues together."
— Nabonidus, from _Rogues in the House_ (a Conan story)
"The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved."
— from (you guessed it) _The Blues Brothers_
"Equally guilty is he who has it in his power to avenge a misdeed and fails to do so."
— the Olympic Truce
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."
— Margaret Bonnano
"Too many cooks spoil the broth."
— variously attributed, and usually true
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
— Nick Seitz
"Very few escape my grasp...even in death."
— the Loc-Nar, from _Heavy Metal_
"Did you see anything?"
"Someone left the door open and the wrong dogs came home."
— from _High Plains Drifter_
"There is too much that man does not know. And what man does not know, that is the province of the gods."
— ancient Nordic proverb
"The more I know, the less I understand."
— variously attributed
"Nobody _has_ to do _anything_."
— Charles McCabe
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."
— Robocop
"The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved."
— from _The Blues Brothers_
"Mostly dead is slightly alive."
— Miracle Max, from _The Princess Bride_
"He doesn't have feelings...he doesn't think about things like you and me. You're out of your league."
— from _Slayground_
"Not as bad as you might have imagined."
— motto suggested for New Jersey by Calvin Trillin
"If at first you don't succeed, you're about average."
— unknown
"There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!"
— Thomas Edison
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
— Mark Twain
"Beware of the man who does not drink."
— proverb
"The shortest distance between two points is usually under repair."
— unknown
"There's no place like home..."
— Dorothy, from _The Wizard of Oz_
"I could've killed 'em all. I could've killed _you_. Let it go. Let it go or I'll give you a war you won't believe."
— from _First Blood_
"I decided not to waste my life to avenge something that I survived."
— Col. Braddock, from _Missing In Action_
"A friend is one who warns you."
— Near East proverb
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
— Chinese proverb
"I will take you places you've never been. I will show you things that you have never seen and I will see the life run out of you."
— Eva/Alma, from _Ghost Story_
"Death has come to your small town..."
— Dr. Loomis, from _Halloween_
"...and now for something completely different!"
— Monty Python
"Have you ever killed anybody?"
"Yeah, but they were all bad."
— from _True Lies_
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."
— Confucius
"They want to test me, make sure I can hack it. Fine by me - I need a good workout anyway."
— the Punisher
"Fear not the weapon. Fear the man."
— from Rapid Fire
"What's your prediction for the fight?"
"Prediction?"
"Yes, prediction."
"Pain..."
— from _Rocky 3_
"I didn't come here to fight."
"Then you shouldn't have come here at all!"
— from _Pale Rider_
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1738)
"I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all."
— Bob Lemon, former White Sox manager
"The third time may be the charm, but that doesn't make the first and second meaningless."
— unknown
"Money is always there, but the pockets change."
— Gertrude Stein
"Treat the undead with respect. In other words, kill them quickly."
— advice from _The Bard's Tale_ manual
"Everyone here has become very rich...or else they are dead."
— random townsperson in _For a Few Dollars More_
"If you say you're going to do it, and you go out and do it, it ain't braggin'."
— Dizzy Dean
"Each problem solved introduces a new unsolved problem."
— unknown
"If at first you don't succeed...try, try again."
— variously attributed
"Things go right so they can go wrong."
— Maah's Law
"It doesn't make a bit of sense to me, and I'm getting out. I'm alive and I want to remain with the living, understand? And when I'm dead, I want to remain with the dead, and I would be unhappy if somebody living forced me to remain with the living! I hope that's clear."
— from _For a Few Dollars More_
"All's well that ends well."
— variously attributed
"Believe me, nothing is trivial."
— from _The Crow_
"When you want something done right...often you must do it yourself."
— from _Forced Vengeance_
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."
— Euripides
"I hope you're right."
"I know I'm right."
"I don't."
— from _The Mangler_
"I know that I'm not smarter than you."
"Then how did you catch me?"
"You had disadvantages."
"What disadvantages?"
"You're insane."
— Wil Graham & Dr. Hannibal Lector, from _Manhunter_
"Necessity has no law."
— unknown
"All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score."
— unknown
"Professional assassination is the highest form of public service."
— Chiun, from _Remo Williams_
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
— Ed Howe
"What an incredible smell you've discovered!"
— Han Solo, from _Star Wars_
"Maybe we ought to throw it some food."
"We _are_ the food!"
— from _Shoot To Kill_
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
— Henry David Thoreau
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards, and leads us from this world to another."
— Plato
"There's another bastard...and he's getting further away every minute."
— from _Once Upon a Time in the West_
"We can make it if we run."
"No, we can't."
"Why not?"
"Because we're being hunted..."
— from _Jurassic Park_
"It's _good_ to be the king!"
— from _History of the World, part I_
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
— variously attributed
"They say you are a good man."
"I try to be."
— from _Hercules_
"Peace is highly overrated."
— General Katana, from (sic) _Highlander 2_
"This place has _everything_."
— The Blues Brothers
"Good plan, sir - if it works."
"My plans always work."
— from the _Battlestar Galactica_ tv series
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
— Dante Alighieri, from _The Inferno_
"You don't look happy."
"It's been a long time since war made me happy."
— Duncan MacLeod, from _Highlander_, the TV series
"No bastard won a war by dying for his country - he won it by making another bastard die for _his_ country."
— from _Patton_
"I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions. But...self-control got the better of me."
— Doc Holliday, from _Wyatt Earp_
"The son of a bitch must pay!"
— Jack Burton, from _Big Trouble In Little China_
"Every time I think I've hit the bottom, somebody throws me a shovel."
— Garfield, by Jim Davis
"He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the problem with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine."
— from _The Light Fantastic_, by Terry Pratchett
"It's only when we really begin to fear death that we learn to value life."
— from _The Professional_
"This isn't nonsense, Dick, this is history. History is written by unusual men, some who even become kings, and some who make no more mark than that of a stone thrown into an ocean. What we have here...well we just don't know, do we?"
— from _Farewell to the King_
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"People like that have something inside...something to do with death."
— from _Once Upon a Time in the West_
"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side."
— Treebeard the Ent, from _Lord of the Rings_
"Not a hard one to track - he leaves dead men wherever he goes."
— from _The Outlaw Josey Wales_
"Have you ever met anybody you _didn't_ kill?"
"Well, I haven't killed you yet!"
— from _Lethal Weapon_
"I still say we're asking for trouble! A fella like that.. what do we know about him? Who is he? Where does he come from?"
— from _High Plains Drifter_
"Come quietly or there will be...trouble."
— Robocop
"Most people have a full measure of life, and most people watch it slowly drip away....but if you can summon it all up in one place, you can accomplish something glorious."
— Ramirez, from (sic) _Highlander 2_
"You're not a cook."
"Yeah, well...I also cook."
— from _Under Siege_
"A good man does not obey the laws too well."
— Henry David Thoreau
"You cannot leave someone like that to do what he _wants_ around here. He is capable of doing anything."
— from _A Fistful of Dollars_
"Very few people are totally ruthless. It isn't easy. It takes more strength than you might believe."
— Han, from _Enter the Dragon_
"The time has come to liquidate our guests."
— Dr. Reinhardt, from _The Black Hole_
"...and that is what Evil does: forces us all down dark pathways we otherwise would not have trod."
— from _The Dark Tide_
"I can be anyone you want me to be..."
"You don't want to be who I'm looking for."
— from _Highlander_, the series
"He's a killer who doesn't kill...murder's only killing without a license. Everybody kills."
— Arthur Bishop, from _The Mechanic_
"I _am_ a nice guy...just a different kind of nice guy."
— from _The River Wild_
"To deny what I was is to deny what I am."
— Darius, from the Highlander episode _Brothers In Arms_
"I just didn't think you existed..."
"It's good to be a myth."
"Yeah. Nobody hunts for a myth."
— from the Highlander episode _Methos_
"You're incredible!"
"No...I am better than that."
— from _Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_
"What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law."
— from _Smokey and the Bandit_
"Now it's my will against yours...and you _will_ lose."
— Gunnery Sgt. Highway, from _Heartbreak Ridge_
"You're a man who makes people afraid...and that's dangerous."
— from _High Plains Drifter_
"One man really _can_ make a difference."
— from the _Knight Rider_ pilot
"I'm no leader. I do what I have to do, and sometimes people follow me."
— Stu Redman, from _The Stand_ miniseries
"There is no knowledge that is not power."
— seen on the _Mortal Kombat 3_ video game
"Well, he'll have to run for it now...and Hell is where he's headed."
"He'll be waiting there for us."
— from _The Outlaw Josey Wales_
"He's come home...and he's very angry. How does it feel to know that you're damned?"
— from _Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers_
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
— from _Buckaroo Banzai_
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie
"Everybody's entitled to a little confusion in their lives. I practically thrive on it."
— Commander Cain, from _Living Legend_ (Battlestar Galactica)
"If only you could see what I've seen - with your eyes."
— Roy Batty, from _Bladerunner_
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
— from _Truckin'_, by the Grateful Dead
"Who is he?"
"Who knows? _Nobody_ knows, that's what I've been trying to tell you!"
— from _Slayground_
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be truth."
— Sherlock Holmes, among others
"The most dangerous weapon in the world is a focused mind."
— from _Kickboxer 3_
"I don't trust him. We're friends."
— Bertolt Brecht
"Perfection is a road, not a destination."
— Chiun, from _Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
— Margaret Bonnano
"It seems your trophy is tearing us a new orifice."
— from _Hard Target_
"The course of action I suggest is the one I can't suggest."
— from _Clear and Present Danger_
"Just because something's cool doesn't mean that something else doesn't suck."
— Butt-head
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
— Isaac Asimov, from _Fantastic Voyage_
"How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise."
— Louis Cypher, from _Angel Heart_
"Again we see that there is nothing you can possess that I cannot take away."
— Belloq, from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
"Hurting people isn't a good thing! Okay, sometimes it is..."
— from _Demolition Man_
"No flesh shall be spared."
— from _Hardware_
"Villains hide. Heroes don't.
Villains scheme. Heroes wait.
Villains 1. Heroes 0."
— from _The Last Avengers Story_, by Peter David
"You're very foolish...the true sign of a hero."
— Shang Tsung, from _Mortal Kombat_
"I think I should do what they do best."
— from _Telefon_
"There's _always_ a way to take somebody down..."
— from _An Innocent Man_
"When life loses its value and is taken for naught, then the pact is...to avenge."
— from _Heavy Metal_
"I, too, am in need of retribution."
— Kane, from _An Eye For An Eye_
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
— Albert Einstein
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
— Clarke's Second Law
"We are both seekers of truth and in this quest I am your friend, philosopher, and guide."
— the torturer, from _Closet Land_
"You be careful. You're in this now and it's gonna get mean."
— from _Silverado_
"Is there gonna be a fight?"
"I think there must be."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"The golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules."
— from _They Live_
"I would sooner be notorious than unknown."
— variously attributed
"Strange, how you always manage to be in the right place at the right time."
— from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"You look as though this place suits you very well...but if you go on like this, you will soon be here permanently."
— from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"I don't get angry - I'm a professional."
— Peck, from _Hard Target_
"Those who don't wanna get shot...better head on out the back."
— from _Unforgiven_
"I've got questions and I want answers. Now start talking."
— Colton, from _Breakout_
"You want revenge?"
"I want them dead, if that's what you mean."
— from _Highlander: The Series_
"Within each of us, ofttimes, there dwells a mighty and raging fury."
— Old Arabian Proverb (Incredible Hulk Vol. 1 #175
"Actually time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Half of everything is luck."
"And the other half?"
"Fate."
— from _Goldeneye_
"Well, I'll be damned."
"You may indeed...if you get lucky."
— Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, from _Tombstone_
"It's not my career choice!"
"Sometimes the career chooses the man."
— from _Sniper_
"...no fate but what we make..."
— fragment from _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_
"The only thing mightier than the sword is the soul of the warrior who wields it..."
— Iroshi
"They're all dead...they just don't know it yet."
— from _The Crow_
"Let's get something straight, buster: I'm not here to say 'please', I'm here to tell you what to do."
— Winston Wolf, from _Pulp Fiction_
"Let he who is without sin try to survive."
— from _Seven_
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long... and you have burned so very, very brightly..."
— from _Bladerunner_
"I'm a soldier, not a monster...though I've worked for monsters before."
— from _Die Hard: With a Vengeance_
"It is good to put your life in other peoples' hands."
— T. H. White, _The Once and Future King_
"People are complex, from moment to moment they reform and become new again, changing shape and color as easily as the mythical beasts that symbolize the inner life of man."
— _Nature's End_, Streiber & Kunetka
"Killing me won't stop anything."
"Hey, there are worse things than dying, hombre."
— from _Licence To Kill_
"Even when someone has the strength to discard me, my power is not diminished."
— the Loc-Nar, from _Heavy Metal_
"You're a legend in your own mind."
— variously attributed
"The future isn't what it used to be."
— Louis Cypher, from _Angel Heart_
"If my answers frighten you, Vincent, maybe you should cease asking scary questions."
— Jules, from _Pulp Fiction_
"How much is a lot?"
"More than a little and less than too much."
— from _Timecop_
"Life IS pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
— from _The Princess Bride_
"As you journey through life, take a minute every now and then to give a thought to the other fellow...he could be plotting something."
— from _Hagar the Horrible_, by Chris Browne
"He say you bladerunner."
"Tell him I'm eating."
— sushi master & Deckard, from _Bladerunner_
"A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die."
— _Ghetto_, Poul Anderson
"Calm down - I'm sure there's a rational explanation for this."
"Don't be so sure."
— unknown
"Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects."
— Luther Burbank
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall. But the smaller they are, the higher they rise."
— unknown
"Nobody _has_ to do anything."
— Charles McCabe
"I trust no man until we have faced a legion of foes, and their blood lies spilt at our feet. Only then does a man know who he can call friend."
— Conan
"I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead."
— Wade Garrett, _Road House_
"What is the Way of the Warrior?"
"The Way of the Warrior is Death."
— seventeenth-century Japanese proverb
"We've got them just where they want us."
— James T. Kirk, _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_
"It is one thing to get up quickly and another thing never to fall down."
— St. Augustine
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
— Damon Runyon
"The best cure for boredom is a swift kick in the ass."
— unknown
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie
"Crom take all this delay! We shall talk _now_!"
— Conan
"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God."
— Elwood, from _The Blues Brothers_
"Someone like that will just tear the place up...will make a lot of noise!"
— Bucco, from _Desperado_
"If I say no?"
"Don't say no."
— from _Sneakers_
"That's the heart of it. Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself."
— _'Repent Harlequin!', said the Ticktockman_, Harlan Ellison
"My hypocrisy goes only so far."
— Doc Holliday, from _Tombstone_
"Put your genius into your life. Put only your talent into your work."
— unknown
"Murder is only a classification of killing. It means killing without a license. Everybody kills. The difference is only the license. Governments, the military, police all have it because our institutions give it to them."
— Arthur Bishop, from _The Mechanic_
"There's no place like home."
— Dorothy, _The Wizard of Oz_
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."
— Mickey Rooney
"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Your mission, should you choose to accept it..."
— introduction to the _Mission: Impossible_ series
"What is that noise?"
"My dear, I hope we never have to find out."
— from _The Langoliers_
"Where are you going?"
"If I told you, you'd never let me go."
— from _The X-Files_
"There is a time to think, and a time to act...and this, gentlemen, is no time to think."
— from _Canadian Bacon_
"There's no problem on this earth that can't be solved with a liberal dose of high explosive."
— Richard Marcinko
"I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against incredible odds."
— General George S. Patton
"I didn't think it would end like this."
"We're not dead yet."
— from _For Your Eyes Only_
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
— unknown
"Captain, what do you think?"
"I think we're staring at the asshole of a dead dog - but it's worth a try."
— from _Executive Decision_
"I want the truth!"
"You can't _handle_ the truth!"
— from _A Few Good Men_
"Faith is the stuff you wouldn't believe in if you were in your right mind."
— Archie Bunker
"Everything they want from here on out, they're going to have to take."
— _Billy Jack_
"What's that _smell_?"
"Oh, that would be me. I've been swimming in raw sewage. I _love_ it!"
— Lt. Frank Drebin, _The Naked Gun 2 1/2_
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— Hamlet
"Help you, I can. Yes. Mmm-mmmm."
— Yoda, _The Empire Strikes Back_
"Every guilty person is his own hangman."
— Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)
"I heard you were dead."
"Oh yeah? Well, you heard right."
— from _The Usual Suspects_
"Trust me."
"I don't trust anyone anymore."
— from the _Knight Rider_ pilot
"You don't have to like it - you just have to do it."
— Navy SEAL saying
"There's nothing wrong with revenge - it's the best way to get even!"
— Archie Bunker
"I'm sorry, Dave...I'm afraid I can't do that."
"What's the problem?"
"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
— from _2001: A Space Odyssey_
"We all end up dead; it's just a question of when, and why."
— William Wallace, _Braveheart_
"It's SHOWTIME!"
— Damon Killian, _The Running Man_
"Bones: "I suppose you think that's funny."
Kirk: "I don't know. I'll have to consult our humor officer...Mr. Spock, was that funny?"
Spock: "I shall have to analyze it, sir. It may take time."
— from _Star Trek_
"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished."
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Well, we all have to do things that we don't like."
"You do what you gotta so you can do what you wanna...what did _you_ do that you didn't like?"
— from _Warriors_
"I'm like a bad penny - I always turn up."
— Indiana Jones
"He's a killer, isn't he?"
"He's killed some."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"_Where_ are the guards? Where _is_ everybody?"
— from _Enter the Ninja_
"They're my problem now, and I'm theirs. Their world is about to become a very dark place."
— _The Specialist_
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
— _Under Siege 2_
"Gentlemen, we are now officially in harm's way."
— from _The Rock_
"You okay, man?"
"I...I can't run any farther..."
"Good, 'cause I'm tired of running from these pussies!"
— from _The Warriors_
"Back, if you value your curs' lives!"
— Conan
"Some people die before their time so that other people can live. It's the cornerstone of civilization."
— from _Mulholland Falls_
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and the execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
— Lazarus Long
"Surrender, and I will be merciful...and quick!"
— the Gorn captain, from Star Trek's _Arena_
"All those souls...and you still don't have one of your own! I pity you, sorcerer."
"Save your pity for the weak!"
— Liu Kang & Shang Tsung, from _Mortal Kombat_
"You're a creature of the night, Michael - wait'll Mom hears about this!"
— from _The Lost Boys_
"Here's to the good old days...wherever they are."
— Harry P. Lovecraft, from _Cast A Deadly Spell_
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
— Aldous Huxley
"If you're looking for him, I think that you're looking for a dead man."
— from _Cast A Deadly Spell_
"I thought someone had...taken care of him."
"It's just a matter of time."
— from _The Killer Elite_
"...and I think you got drunk and shot your mouth off in some bar!"
"I never get that drunk!"
— from _Breakout_
"What you deserve and what you get are two different things."
— from _Direct Hit_
"I understand you're very upset."
"You've never _seen_ me very upset!"
— from _Mission: Impossible_
"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
— Heinrich Heine
"I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
"Is it?"
"Yes. You won't hold me."
— from _The Prisoner_ pilot
"I've heard that name somewhere before...don't know where, but it wasn't good."
— Doc Holiday, from _Wyatt Earp_
"You live like men on the run."
"We live like free men!"
— from the Highlander episode _Mountain Men_
"I try never to be where I'm thought to be."
— from _The Quick and the Dead_
"Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."
— unknown
"Is that possible?"
"If it happened, it's possible."
— Kolchak, the Night Stalker
"Move and you're dead!"
"I'm dead...and I move."
— from _The Crow_
"I feel most alive confronting death."
— Jim Morrison, from _The Doors_
"It's easy to make a friend. What's hard is to make a stranger."
— unknown
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
— Victor Hugo, _Les Miserables_
"I'm on my waaay...home, sweet, home..."
— Motley Crue
"Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?"
— Edgar Allen Poe
"What is a friend?"
"A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle
"We've got a certain way of doing things around here."
"Right now, I'm not interested in your way of doing things."
— Bud & Lt. Coffey, from _The Abyss_
"What'd you do?"
"I made him an offer he couldn't refuse."
— from _The Godfather_
"You don't have to like it - you just have to do it."
— Richard Marcinko
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."
— Groucho Marx
"You don't care whether you live or die, right?"
"Of course we do. It's in the manner of living - and of dying - that one finds relevance."
— from _The Killer Elite_
"I didn't have any choice."
"We all have a choice."
— from _The Crow: City of Angels_
"More killing!"
"Survival."
— from _Village of the Damned_
"Blimey! They're _filthy_!"
"They may be, lady, but they sure do mean well."
— from _The Dirty Dozen_
"Hey, this place has certain standards!"
"I guess I'm here to lower them, then."
— from the _Highlander_ series
"Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make!"
— Dracula
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
— variously attributed
"What is it with you guys? We're standing. They're not. What more do you want?"
— Johnny Cage, from _Mortal Kombat_
"They're all dead."
"What killed 'em?"
"Bad manners."
— The Stranger
"Horror and mortal terror are your friends; if they are not, then they are enemies to be feared...they are truly enemies."
— Kurtz, from _Apocalypse Now_
"Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in and another comes out!"
— Tuco, from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"No, the question isn't indiscreet, though the answer could be."
— from _For a Few Dollars More_
"Pardon me, but...we don't even know your name."
"Names don't count for much out here, ma'am."
— from _The Quick and the Dead_
"You and me are the kind of people who could get in a lot of trouble around here."
— from _Streets of Fire_
"Is he crazy?"
"Yeah, but it gives him his advantage."
— from _Battlestar: Galactica - The Living Legend_
"Your crime wasn't that you got caught - it was the crime _itself_."
— from _Bad Boys_ (1981)
"You're very suspicious, Mr. Bond."
"Oh, I find that I live much longer that way."
— 007 & XXX, from _The Spy Who Loved Me_
"Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?"
— Indiana Jones, from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
"I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing."
— Norman Bates, from _Psycho_
"I am altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it further."
— Darth Vader, from _The Empire Strikes Back_
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare; my business is to create."
— William Blake
"Insanity runs in my family...it practically gallops."
— Mortimer Brewster, from _Arsenic and Old Lace_
"You don't know me - you just think you do."
— from _Get Shorty_
"Do you spend time with your family?"
"Sure I do."
"Good, because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
— Don Corleone & son, from _The Godfather_
"Where is he? Around here?"
"He's dead."
"Could be anywhere, then."
— from _The Dark Crystal_
"Make a bet every day, otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it."
— Jimmy Jones
"We'll never survive."
"Nonsense. You're just saying that because no one ever has."
— Buttercup & Wesley, from _The Princess Bride_
"My mother always said there were no monsters...no REAL monsters...but there are."
— Newt, from _Aliens_
"Superior weaponry always triumphs over superior numbers."
"Don't underestimate superior numbers."
— classic military debate
"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes..."
— from _Macbeth_
"I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."
— _The Thing_ (1981)
"Someday, I will come to you and ask you for this favor... whatever it is, you will do it."
— Stingray
"Most people can only handle so much truth."
"How'd you get to be so smart?"
— Kalas & Duncan, from the Highlander episode _Finale_
"Are you a dream...?"
"A dream to some...a nightmare to others!"
— from _Excalibur_
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
— Vlad Dracula, from _Dracula_ (1992)
"Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink..."
— from _Ryme of the Ancient Mariner_, by Samuel Coleridge
"Flying is hours and hours of boredom, broken by a few seconds of sheer terror."
— Gregory Boyd, WWII flying ace
"Thou strange piece of wild nature!"
— _The Lady's Last Stake_, by Colley Cibber
"Superstition is a name the ignorant give to their ignorance."
— _Dragon, The Bruce Lee Story_
"I hurt, therefore I am."
— unknown
"My god, look at them all - they're attacking us!"
"Too bad for them."
— the Man With No Name
"We ain't gonna stand for no weirdness out here..."
— from _Friday the 13th_
"Well, looks like we're about here."
"Where's 'here'?"
"The middle of nowhere."
— from _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3_
"Funny story. Sounds unbelievable. Probably true."
— Rorschach, from _Watchmen_
"We can't lose - we've got a winning team!"
— Sauron, from _Myth Adventures_
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
— Russell Hoban
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
— Mary McCarthy
"Well me, I kinda like it when things get weird, y'know? I like it when all the cards are on the table."
— the Comedian, from _Watchmen_
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
— Barbara Ehrenreich
"One impulse from a vernal wood, may teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the ages can."
— William Wordsworth
"Do you always talk this much?"
"Not always...but often."
— the Borg-queen & Data, from _Star Trek: First Contact_
"I thought you stopped it!"
"I slowed it down. Nothing can stop it."
— from _Daylight_
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_
"Science asks how. Philosophy asks why. Dragons don't care."
— a .signature on the internet
"We have to compromise."
"No. Not even in the face of armageddon. Never compromise."
— Rorschach, _Watchmen_
"One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith...not religion... nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness. You will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never, ever forgive. For some things there is no forgiveness...absolutely none."
— John Bergan, from _The Crow_ trade paperback
"All for one...and more for me."
— Cardinal Richelieu, from _The Three Musketeers_
"So...what's the meaning of life?"
"It ends."
— from _Judge Dredd_
"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
— Socrates
"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
— Elizabeth Gaskell
"The love of money is the root of all evil. And man needs roots."
— unknown
"Once you remove the absurdity from human existence, there isn't much left."
— Alexis A. Gilliland
"I don't make things complicated. That's just the way things get, all by themselves."
— Martin Riggs, from _Lethal Weapon_
"I've got a new deal for you: help me and you live."
— Snake Plissken, _Escape From L.A._
"What sharp little eyes you've got!"
"Wait 'til you get to my teeth."
— from _Thunderball_
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
— unknown
"Keep your enemies at arms' length..."
— unknown
"We're outnumbered!"
"Yeah, but we're not outclassed."
— from _The Gory and Defeated_
"That's crazy!"
"Maybe, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen."
— from _The Howling_
"You're going to be the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not get away with it."
— Remo Williams
"It's not denial; I'm just very selective about the reality I choose."
— unknown
"Hey, where do these stairs go?"
"They go up."
— from _Ghostbusters_
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare; my business is to create."
— William Blake
"I'm not the right kind of person for this shit!"
"You're _exactly_ the right kind of person."
— _Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight_
"There are always alternatives."
— Spock, from _The Galileo Seven_
"You can't just go around wasting friendly civilians."
"There ARE no friendly civilians!"
— from _First Blood_
"It's not a schedule. It's a list of our next victims."
— Tampa Bay Mutiny advertisement
"They're not dead, exactly. They're just sort of...rotting."
— from _Dead Alive_
"I'm not saying you're not good at what you do. I'm just saying I'm better."
— Hank Hill, _King of the Hill_
"The great questions of the time are not solved by speculation and major decisions...but by blood and iron."
— Otto von Bismarck
"I keep my angst...I preserve it because I need it. It keeps me sharp, on the edge...where I gotta be."
— Vincent Hanna, _Heat_
"Do, or do not. There is no try!"
— Yoda, from _The Empire Strikes Back_
"We all have a dark place. I don't like to visit mine, but I will if I have to."
— The Expert
"Keep your friends close...keep your enemies closer."
— Don Michael Corleone, _The Godfather_
"The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make adjustments."
— Stella, from _Silverado_
"I say, let friendship thrive."
— Methos, from the _Highlander_ series
"To survive a war, you gotta _become_ war."
— John Rambo
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing; we know this in countless ways."
— Blaise Pascal
"Man, that was one strange dude. Who was he?"
"One strange dude."
— from _Blacula_
"Soldiers win battles, and generals get the credit."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"War is hell."
— common adage
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You'll be here?"
"I'm always here."
— from _Sleepers_
"No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars."
— unknown
"Why?"
"Because I say so: which in practical terms means that were you to disobey me, you would go home tonight to find your wife and children butchered in their beds."
— Starr, from _Preacher_ #19
"Everyone gets what he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one."
— Captain Willard, from _Apocalypse Now_
"You made good time."
"Well, the sooner we get here, the sooner we can leave."
— from _Tremors 2_
"They could have killed you!"
"I'm not that easy to kill."
— from _First Knight_
"Sometimes reality is just a matter of perception."
— from _Tales From the Hood_
"You look as if this place suits you very well...but if you go on like this, you will soon be here permanently."
— from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"Sane people do not _build_ weapons like this!"
— from _Under Siege 2_
"Whatever happened here, we missed it."
— from _Aliens_
"So you know something about him?"
"Not enough."
— from _Manhunter_
"There's no such animal!"
"That may be, but that doesn't mean it's not here."
— from _Sphere_
"Are you an assassin?"
"I'm a soldier."
"You're neither...you're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill."
— from _Apocalypse Now_
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
— Bertrand Russell
"It's not what you know, it's who you know."
— common maxim
"You people, you do not see the grandeur in the wind and stone and stars, in the blood and fire and iron - but paint only the flowers."
— unknown
"To every thing there is a season..."
— widely attributed
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
— Will Rogers
"I didn't ask to be put in charge of this mission."
"Actually sir, you insisted upon it."
"Right then, let's see how well I can do!"
— from an unknown WWII movie
"Your friends have a high mortality rate, eh?"
— from _Once Upon a Time in the West_
"Do you know how to fight?"
"Do _you_ know how to _die_?"
— from _The Crow: City of Angels_
"It doesn't matter...that kind, they never pay the price."
"Sometimes they do."
— from an episode of the _Highlander_ series
"Thanks for not killing me, man. I owe you one."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"They wouldn't be sorry to see you stay, you know."
"They wouldn't be sorry to see us go, either."
— from _The Magnificent Seven_
"Why don't you just grow up?"
"Why should I? This is more fun!"
— from _Streets of Fire_
"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
— Ogden Nash
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at our lack of originality."
— Kahlil Gibran
"There are no friends at cards or world politics."
— F. P. Dunne
"They could never catch you...no matter what you did."
"Sooner or later, they get everyone."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met."
— D.L. Moody
"You shouldn't feel responsible."
"I _am_ responsible!"
— from an episode of the _Highlander_ series
"I wonder if that silly duck will remember he can fly?"
— Bugs Bunny
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."
— H. L. Mencken
"Before you can understand the living, you must commune with the dead."
— from _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil_
"Quit?"
"Dead."
"Well, that's as good as quit in my book."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"I am not aware of any such operation or mission."
— from _Apocalypse Now_
"Before setting out on revenge, you first dig two graves."
— _For Your Eyes Only_
"The only way to make up for being lost is to make record time while you are lost."
— the Rule of the Rally
"I think I should take him out."
"You mean killing? When?"
"As soon as possible."
— from _Blue Thunder_
"You want to kill me, don't you? Well, take a number and get in line."
— from _Cliffhanger_
"I can't say it all went exactly as I planned, but I was right about one thing: they were all better off dead."
— from _Last Man Standing_
"The only easy day was yesterday."
— Navy SEAL training motto
"If it takes them so long, so long to say yes...why don't they just say no?"
— Meat Loaf
"If you want to make him a hero, all you've gotta do is make him mad."
— from the _Streets of Fire_ trailer
"Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
— from _The Shawshank Redemption_
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
— from _The Usual Suspects_
"You're crazy!"
"No, I am simply...aware."
— from the original Star Trek episode _Spock's Brain_
"We have a strange and wonderful relationship. You're strange and I'm wonderful."
— unknown
"You can't kill him!"
"I have to."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"I get by with a little help from my friends..."
— the Beatles
"Madness has no purpose, or reason...but it may have a goal."
— Mr. Spock, from the episode _The Alternative Factor_
"I don't want a job. I want a business."
— unknown
"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement."
— Michael Corleone, from _The Godfather_
"I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of."
— from _Ronin_
"This is insane!"
"It is...that's the point."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"Anything's fair in love and war, jerkweed. And I just love to make war."
— the Hulk
"This is starting to spook me."
"At least I'm not alone."
— from _Halloween 4_
"When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth."
— from _Dawn of the Dead_
"One of us is in big trouble."
— Ben Richards, from _The Running Man_
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
— Richard Bach
"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— from _The Shawshank Redemption_
"You don't finish growing up...you just get older."
— from _The Professional_
"Change is the essential process of all existence."
— unknown
"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out...just my enemies. That's all."
— Michael Corleone, from _The Godfather part II_
"My mama always told me, never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today."
— Doc Holliday, from _Wyatt Earp_
"The unexpected guest is oft the most welcome."
— unknown
"He _was_ crazy...in a very special way."
— from _Once Upon a Time in the West_
"You might know who we are, but we know who you are. Understand."
— from _Goodfellas_
"Well, look at this! Two of my favorite people in the whole wide world, talking to each other."
— from _Silverado_
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting."
— Mr. Spock, from _Amok Time_
"Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"Well, no one ever asked."
— from _The Avengers_
"He wasn't going to kill you."
"I think he thought he was."
— from _Heir to the Empire_
"It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds."
— Aesop
"We need a weapon..."
"I am a weapon."
— from _Usher's Passing_, by Robert McCammon
"How many of them are there?"
"More. A lot more."
— from the _Highlander_ TV series
"If I treat you with the respect you deserve, you'd be dead already!"
— from _Renegade_
"Heroes die once, cowards every day."
— Ugur Mumcu
"From where I'm sitting, it's a dog-eat-dog world, and there just ain't enough dogs."
— from _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2_
"Freedom lies in being bold."
— Robert Frost
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
— Adolf Hitler
"We all wear masks."
— from _Batman Forever_
"But I don't even know where to find you again."
"You don't know how lucky you are."
— unknown
"Nobody knows anybody. Not that well."
— from _Miller's Crossing_
"When in doubt, fill the graveyard."
— the Trader, from _Deathlands_
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
— Tuco, from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"What's plan B, kid?"
"There is no plan B."
— from _Daylight_
"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them."
— unknown
"The hardest thing to hear - for any of us - is something we don't agree with."
— from _Prince of Darkness_
"I wish there was some other way."
"There never is."
— from _Highlander, the Series_
"There is grim purpose in all that I do."
— Professor Van Helsing, from _Dracula_ (1979)
"I don't wanna kill anybody...if I gotta get out that door and you're standing in my way, one way or another you're getting out of my way."
— Mr. Pink, from _Reservoir Dogs_
"Don't you guys get it?"
"Oh, we get it. We just don't like it."
— from _Tremors 2: Aftershocks_
"Does anybody have any idea where the fuck these people are?!?"
— Vincent Hanna, from _Heat_
"You never told me they could do that!"
"I didn't _know_ they could do that!"
— from _Vampires_
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
— common proverb
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not why ships are built."
— unknown
"There are some secrets that should remain secrets."
— from _The X-Files_
"He's our best man...though I never tell him."
— _M_, from _The World Is Not Enough_
"If you're burned to death, will the crematorium give you a discount?"
— unknown
"This calls for a subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence."
— from _The Young Ones_
"I escaped. I always escape."
— Simon Templar, from _The Saint_
"How much blood must I bathe in to get clean?"
— from _The Hunted_
"I'm faster than you'll ever live to be."
— the stranger, from _High Plains Drifter_
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
— unknown
"Blimey! They're filthy!"
"They may be, but they sure do mean well."
— from _The Dirty Dozen_
"You are Number Six!"
— from _The Prisoner_
"The Marines are looking for a few good men. Unfortunately, you ain't it."
— Gunnery Sgt. Highway, from _Heartbreak Ridge_
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan
"Pillage before you burn."
— Cardinal Rule of War
"I hear you're dangerous to know."
"Afraid of a little danger?"
— unknown
"You're nothing but a bunch of rotten troublemakers!"
"Wrong. Only some of us are rotten troublemakers."
— unknown
"The most co-operative man in this world is a dead man."
— Oxmyx, from _A Piece of the Action_ (Star Trek series I)
"I can't imagine that the opinions of others affect you very much."
"I realized long ago that to be popular, one must conform. I find that too big a price to pay."
"Conform?"
"To the standards of conduct dictated by convention. I have my own standards - I conform to them."
"At least you're honest."
"And probably my only virtue. I'm always honest - even with myself. I wonder how many people can truthfully admit to that."
— from _Plague of the Zombies_
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein
"What are we looking for?"
"Anything that looks like it doesn't belong here."
— from _Alligator_
"Well, maybe that's just it. Maybe we're not seeing it because...it can't be seen."
— from _The X-Files_
"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality."
— Jim Morrison, from _The Doors_
"You know, for a guy with no principles, sometimes you act kinda peculiar."
— from _Last Man Standing_
"I don't need a bad luck piece."
— unknown
"I knew you were cruel, but I didn't know how far you could go."
"Well, you still don't."
— from _High Plains Drifter_
"Because some people need killing and there isn't so much as a judgement to it. Because I knew I could. Because we're all born with someone's hands in our pockets, and we smile because we want our fleeting little space and we don't know how to hit back. I don't like it. I hit back."
— Holland, from _The Evil That Men Do_
"It seems like just when I get to likin' somebody, they ain't around very long."
"It seems like when you get to dislikin' somebody they ain't around long either."
— from _The Outlaw Josey Wales_
"Nobody move or everybody gets hurt!"
— The Tick
"You only have one life. If you value it, go home."
— Connor MacLeod, from _Highlander_
"I only have one rule: everyone fights. No one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself."
— from _Starship Troopers_
"It's only got two states of being: dangerous or dead. Nothing in-between."
— from _Razorback_
"Over, under, around, or through."
— Trader, from the _Deathlands_ series
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— bumper sticker spotted 12/9/99
"I'm the one who knows...the only one who knows it all...and is still breathing."
— from _Cast A Deadly Spell_
"Everybody's running from something."
— from _Last Man Standing_
"The only way to ensure peace is by preparing for war."
— John F. Kennedy
"Timing is everything."
— unknown
"Kill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million, and you're a conqueror."
— from _Cliffhanger_
"You're bluffing."
"You seem to have me confused with someone who NEEDS to bluff."
— the Incredible Hulk
"Anything you do to any one of my brethren...you do to me."
— from _Sleepers_
"We're a peaceful people. We don't kill our enemies, we get get our enemies to kill each other."
— from _Beneath the Planet of the Apes_
"The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive."
— Private Joker, from _Full Metal Jacket_
"I didn't think it would end like this."
"We're not dead yet."
— from _For Your Eyes Only_
"Gods are useless - you must rely on yourself."
— from _Once Upon a Time in the West_
"Running ain't a plan! Running's what you do when a plan fails!"
— Val, from _Tremors_
"Where are we going?"
"Anywhere but here."
— from _Sleepy Hollow_
"Time doesn't mean much when you don't have things to do and places to be."
— from _Deathlands: Ground Zero_
"For a good man, you seem to have many enemies."
— from some _Highlander_ episode
"Look at me! I am the sum of all evil."
— the Loc-Nar, from _Heavy Metal_
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
— Albert Einstein
"Evil walks, beside you..."
— AC/DC lyric
"You know, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."
— from _Citizen Kane_
"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."
— Leonardo DaVinci
"Now it's back to the kind of fight I'm used to...me versus everybody."
— Grifter
"A shadow shall fall over the universe, and evil will grow in its path, and death will come from the skies..."
— from _Heavy Metal_
"I'm watching you."
"You watch, but you don't see."
— from _The X-Files_
"When a people's survival is at stake, they are not nice in the methods that they use."
— Michael Howard, _The Causes of War_
"The more you bleed in training, the less you bleed in combat."
— R. Marcinko
"This is what I wanted: to be on the road with Dwarves again!"
— Bilbo Baggins, _The Lord of the Rings_
"You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them."
— Princess Leia, from _The Empire Strikes Back_
"So foul a sky clears not without a storm."
— from _Double Edge_
"You're not the least uncomfortable, are you?"
"These places make life worth living."
— Rhiana & Holland, from _The Evil That Men Do_
"Where you headed?"
"Same place you are...hell, in the end."
— _Jeremiah Johnson_
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups!"
— _Under Siege 2_
"You mean they've been acting so smart because they're so stupid?"
— from _Tremors 2_
"It's not impossible. Nothing's impossible."
— from _The Godfather_
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
— from _Goldfinger_
"Most people are afraid to die. But not you - you're afraid to live."
— from _Highlander_
"Blood is the best security in this business."
— Kerim Bey, _From Russia With Love_
"You cannot leave someone like that to do what he _wants_ around here. He is capable of doing anything."
— from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_
"I don't have a work ethic...just work."
— Captain Billy Tyne, from _The Perfect Storm_
"You don't finish growing up...you just get older."
— from _Leon_ aka _The Professional_
"Have I thanked you yet?"
"No."
"I will."
— from _Desperado_
"It has always been the privilege of the few to hunt the many."
— Foucheau, from _Hard Target_
"When death comes easy, it comes fast."
— the Trader, from _Deathlands_
"I wonder what this place looks like in the daytime?"
"Hey, this _is_ the daytime."
— Starbuck & Boomer, from _Battlestar Galactica_
"Any landing you can walk away form is a good one."
— unknown
"I don't see anything."
"That's because you're not supposed to."
— Solitaire & Bond, from _Live & Let Die_
"We're not afraid to die."
"Good, because I'm not afraid to kill you."
— from _End of Days_
"These things are smart! They're getting smarter by the minute!"
"That's okay, we've got some new things to teach them!"
— from _Tremors_
"There's no greater morale builder than superior firepower."
— unknown
"Who're you?"
"I'm the one telling you how it is."
— from _Get Shorty_
"If you don't go over the top, you'll never know what's on the other side."
— Jim Steinman
"Some people are just born victims."
— from _the Crow: City of Angels_
"You're a man who makes people afraid...and that's dangerous."
— from _High Plains Drifter_
"It is simple to be a good friend when you're in the company of good friends."
— the Trader, from _Deathlands: Mars Arena_
"You must let go. Surrender yourself to death. The death of flesh, the death of fear. Step into the abyss, and let go."
— Lorien, from _Babylon 5_
"I never gamble with my money...only with my life."
— Rick O'Connell, from _The Mummy_ (1999)
"He who can destroy a thing controls that thing."
— from _Dune_
"People become critics when they don't have what it takes to become artists."
— from the _Highlander_ episode _Star Crossed_
"He can be terrible, he can be mean, and he can be right."
— from _Apocalypse Now_
"Governments change...the lies stay the same."
— James Bond, from _Goldeneye_
"You boys never should have been doing this."
— from _Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2_
"The idea of being 'normal' didn't appeal much to him; the standards were too low."
— from _Extreme Prejudice_, by Richard Dobbins
"That was a brave thing you did."
"Did it work?"
— from _X-Men_
"I can't lift that."
"Grow stronger."
— from _The 13th Warrior_
"No one's ever done anything like this."
"That's why it's going to work."
— from _The Matrix_
"He chose...poorly."
— the Grailkeeper, from _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_
"Someone's sticking a red-hot poker up our asses and I wanna know whose name's on the handle."
— from _Reservoir Dogs_
"In these turbulent times, it's better to be a ghost than a man."
— from _A Chinese Ghost Story_
"Faith is that faculty in men that enables us to believe things that we know are untrue."
— from _Nosferatu_ (1979)
"You learn a lot about a person when you hunt him."
— from _Coogan's Bluff_
"I've never seen anything like this."
"Of course you haven't. No one has."
— from _Stargate_
"Do you think you can upset the order of the universe and not pay the price?"
— Honeythorn Gump, _Legend_
"No exceptions - everybody pays the price."
— from _Last Man Standing_
"I've got a message for you, and you're not going to like it. Pray for death."
— from _Prince of Darkness_
"But we didn't go so easy. Maybe our number wasn't up yet. Maybe we got lucky. Maybe Hell wasn't ready for us."
— from _Team 7_
"You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands around it."
— Rorschach, from _Watchmen_
"It's impossible...for words to describe...what is necessary...to those...who do not know...what horror means."
— from _Apocalypse Now_
"Wonder why it is that men who plead for mercy never give it."
— from _The Quick and the Dead_
"You can't enslave a free man. Only person can do that to a man is himself. The most you can do to a free man is to kill him."
— R.A. Heinlein
"Why?"
"Because I had to."
— Honey Ryder & James Bond, from _Dr. No_
"Old legends never die. They just lose weight."
— from _Smokey and the Bandit_
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
— from _Star Trek: Generations_
"Is evil the opposite of good...or just good made evil by hate?"
— from _Highlander_, the TV series
"I have done what I could."
— Napoleon Bonaparte, 11 APR 1814, before abdicating rulership
"What the hell is going on around here?!?"
"The truth?"
"I can take it."
"We don't know."
— Jack Burton & Wang, from _Big Trouble in Little China_
"Come on, everybody's got their price!"
"You may be right, but I don't want to know what mine is."
— from _Cannon_
"I understand how you must feel."
"Don't understand me so quick."
— from _Alligator_
"Beggars can't be choosers."
"But I can!"
— Jack Burton & Lo Pan, from _Big Trouble in Little China_
"Tell me something you didn't tell him."
"I told him everything."
"You never tell _anybody_ everything!"
— from the _Highlander_ episode "See No Evil"
"Men make promises. Heroes keep them."
— from _Crossfire Trail_
"Real peace is not just the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."
— from _Air Force One_
"Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
— Ben Kenobi, from _Star Wars_
"After all your posturing, all your little speeches...you're nothing but a common thief."
"I am an _exceptional_ thief!"
— from _Die Hard_
"If it's locked, then it's worth stealing."
— from _Dracula 2000_
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
— Albert Einstein
"At least we can be temporary friends. We have a common enemy."
— Jeffrey, from _The Killer_
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."
— General George S. Patton
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
— Robert Frost
"What do you think?"
"I think a plan is just a list of things that don't happen."
— from _The Way of the Gun_
"You understand that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist."
— Colonel Lucas, from _Apocalypse Now_
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
— George S. Patton
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
— Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower, chessmaster
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
— Von Clausewitz
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
— General Douglas MacArthur
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"He died well. That should please you. No bribe attempts or blubbering."
— the Dread Pirate Roberts, from _The Princess Bride_
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
— Yogi Berra
"You're part of the problem, part of the solution, or part of the landscape."
— Sam, from _Ronin_
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
— Auric Goldfinger, from the novel _Goldfinger_
"Never mistake motion for action."
— Ernest Hemingway
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
— Sun Tzu
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
— Mark Twain
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
— Oscar Wilde
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
— Karl Wallenda
"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Hell of a place to die."
"There ain't no good places."
— from _Chato's Land_
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."
— Dave Barry
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke
"Justice is truth in action."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"Take care of your business, or it will take care of you."
— unknown
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
— George Washington Carver
"Everyone's your brother til the rent comes due."
— Sam, from _Ronin_
"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
— Carl Sagan
"If we didn't die, we would not appreciate life as we do."
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"You have to test yourself every day...once you stop testing yourself, you get slow...and when that happens they kill you."
— Billy the Kid, from _Young Guns_
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
— Honore de Balzac
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
— Oscar Wilde
"We're good, but this is getting ridiculous."
— from _Young Guns_
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
— George Santayana
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And whither then? I cannot say."
— from _The Fellowship of the Ring_ by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
— Salvador Dali
"My kind of trouble doesn't take vacations."
— J.J. McQuade, from _Lone Wolf McQuade_
"A man with faith...a rare quality."
— from _Assault on Precinct 13_
"What arrogance - to think that you could ever understand my intentions."
— from _Air Force One_
"I'm a businessman...I don't like violence. Blood is a big expense."
— from _The Godfather_
"It's not a secret, it's a surprise."
— from _Die Another Day_
"Isn't there a trail or something?"
"This _is_ the trail."
— from _Hard Target_
"Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die."
— from _The Crow_
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
— Woody Allen
"You have to kill them all. Otherwise what's the point?"
— Paul Kersey, from _Death Wish 3_
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
— John F. Kennedy
"We don't make mistakes. We make history."
— Kronos, from _Highlander: The Series_
"Because it is not on the map doesn't mean it does not exist."
— from _Dracula: Prince of Darkness_
"There are ways, and there are ways."
— Colton, from _Breakout_
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Daniel J. Boorstin
"The thing you have to remember...is that the real bad things in life make you stronger."
— from _Eye See You_
"It's eerie!"
"Well, let's find out just how eerie."
— from _Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
"If it is there...then it is something that man was not meant to disturb."
— Sallah, from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
— Aldous Huxley
"There are no innocent people...only killers and victims."
— from _Ballistic_
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario."
— Captain Kirk, from _Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan_
" I have a feeling the answers are bigger than the questions."
— from _2010_
"The only thing that keeps me from becoming evil...is fighting evil."
— from _Beowulf_ (the sci-fi movie)
"I think I'm well past the point of safe return."
— from _From Hell_
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
— Aristotle Onassis
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
— Wernher Von Braun
"Talent does only what it can - genius does what it must."
— Arcane, from _Swamp Thing_
"A warrior is not a mountain goat. It is well to remember this."
— from _An Eye For An Eye_
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
— Bertrand Russell
"Everything lost is meant to be found."
— from _Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life_
"Life is a storm...you will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."
— from _The Count of Monte Cristo_
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
— Vince Lombardi
"We could die right here. Accept that. Anything else is just very good luck."
— Colonel "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"The way I am is the way I am. If I scare people, it gives me room."
— B.A. Baracus, from _The A-Team_
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
— from _The Prince_, by Niccolo Machiavelli
"Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin'."
"We all got it comin', kid."
— from _Unforgiven_
"Are you gonna stop the monsters now?"
"I am the monster."
— from _The Chronicles of Riddick_
"A war put off is not a war avoided."
— Charlton Heston
"People with this kind of firepower do not make mistakes about who they visit."
— from _The Transporter_
"How do you like your choices?"
"I don't."
— from _The Rock_
"If anything scares you, kill it."
— from _Eye See You_
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
— Wolfgang Pauli
"It's a machine, designed by the devil and powered by the dead."
— from _13 Ghosts_
"Stay out of my way, or you become the enemy...and I'll treat you the same as them."
— from _The Hitman_
"You're sick...you know that, don't you?"
"No, I'm not."
"Well, what the fuck do you call 125 murders in five years?"
"Work in progress."
— from _The Punisher_ (1989)
"I doubt if you measure danger the way I do."
— Allan Quatermain, from _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_
"You'll never make it."
"Maybe, but I gotta try. It's something that stems from my childhood. I just gotta play against the house."
— Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"It's not a question of whether or not to use violence. There simply is no other way."
— from _Magnum Force_
"Some people think you're already dead...some say you never will be."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"My friends specialize in impossible situations."
— Amy Amanda Allen, from _The A-Team_
"I don't know what we'll find, but getting there is the only way we'll ever know."
— from _Damnation Alley_
"You scared?"
"Nah."
"You should be."
— from _Showdown In Little Tokyo_
"Fascinating, very fascinating...perhaps even true."
— from _Where Eagles Dare_
"It just looks like a morgue. But look out - it could be one so easily."
— from _For A Few Dollars More_
"Where the hell are we?"
"I don't know...but we aren't dead, and they aren't angels."
— from _Deep Waters_
"Are they trying to kill us?"
"Yeah, but they're going to have to do a lot better than that."
— from _The Park is Mine_
"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown."
— Claude Bernard
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
— A. Whitney Brown
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
— Niels Bohr
"I'm not afraid of you...I'm afraid for you."
— from _Beowulf_
"...no one here gets out alive."
— Jim Morrison
"We can handle it."
"Not without casualties, you can't."
— from _Messenger of Death_
"Don't step on any toes."
"I don't step on toes...I step on necks."
— from _Braddock: Missing In Action 3_
"Are you ready?"
"I'm always ready."
— Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"You work for the devil, you'd better be ready to die for him."
— from _The Punisher_ comic, late 2004
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."
— M.C. Escher
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
— Phyllis Bottome
"You think of everything, don't you?"
"I have to. It's part of my job."
— from _Avenging Angelo_
"It's not real easy to like something you know nothing about."
— from _A Fistful of Dollars_
"There is nothing to fear here."
"That's what scares me."
— from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water."
— anonymous proverb
"We don't take hints well."
— from _Hellboy_
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume
"This was maybe not such a good idea."
— from _The Abyss_
"What are you doing?"
"Thinning the herd."
— from _Death Wish 3_
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
— Robert Fritz
"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."
— George S. Patton
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
— the Grateful Dead
"The wild dreams of today are the practical realities of tomorrow."
— _From Hell_
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
— Bertrand Russell
"I don't have any secrets."
"Maybe. But I do."
— from _The Natural_
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
— G. B. Burgin
"Be ready when opportunity comes; luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
— Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"I'm just trying to do the right thing."
"Nobody does the right thing."
— from _The Bourne Identity_ movie
"Anybody trying that hard to hide something must really have something to hide."
— Col. "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_ episode "Pure-Dee Poison"
"Doing this is insane."
"NOT doing this is insane."
— from _Dracula 2: Ascension_
"Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined."
— unknown
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while."
— George Baker
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Little friends may prove great friends."
— Aesop
"Once you've lost everything, you're free to do anything."
— from _Doing Hard Time_
"I don't feel like a new guy."
"You don't much look like one either."
— from _Planetary_, by Warren Ellis
"We have trouble."
"Trouble? I call it sport."
— Mr. Hyde, from _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_
"The good guys don't hide."
— from _The Jackal_
"It's good to be a myth."
"Yeah, no one hunts for a myth."
— Methos and Duncan McLeod, from _Highlander: The Series_
"That man is crazy."
"Yeah, but it's a good kind of crazy."
— from _The A-Team_
"You should be running."
— from _Hellboy_
"Sometimes you have to see a thing to believe it."
— from _Shark Hunter_
"There's a very definite difference between me and you. It's ambition."
— Rau, from _Fist of the North Star_ season 2
"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
— Frank Moore Colby
"There's a very definite difference between me and you. It's ambition."
— Rau, from the _Fist of the North Star_ series
"The mere fact that you _could_ automatically begs the question of whether or not you _should_."
— from _Coup d'Etat_ #3
"It's not necessary."
"It is for me."
— from _Death Wish 2_
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
— A. Alvarez
"I understand that...you no longer carry a weapon."
"He _is_ a weapon."
— from _An Eye For An Eye_
"A warrior takes advantage of what is at hand."
— from _An Eye For An Eye_
"Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance."
— the "Seven P's" rule, as expressed by Richard Marcinko, USN, Ret.
"People will ask if I was insane...just the opposite. An insane man could not have accomplished this."
— from _Eye See You_
"Small talk's for small people. You and me ain't small people."
— Wolverine, from _Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk_
"It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojourns through the world, to ease various evil men of their lives."
— Solomon Kane, from _The Castle of the Devil_
"I'm a priest, not a saint."
— from _The Count of Monte Cristo_ (2002)
"You know, you're more clever than you look."
"Better than looking more clever than you are."
— James Bond and "R", from _Die Another Day_
"It's not good, but it's the best we've got."
— from _Damnation Alley_
"You'd be surprised what people can do when they have to."
— Alan Grant, from _Jurassic Park 3_
"The only way out is through."
— from _Swamp Thing_
"Do not fear to step into the unknown...for where there is risk, there is also reward."
— Lori Hard
"The best people to get us out are all right here."
— from _The Cave_
"Did you win or lose your battles?"
"A little of both...and not enough of either."
— from _Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter_
"That's insane."
"No, it's brilliant. They'll never think we're crazy enough to do it."
— Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
— Jonathan Kozol
"There are men out there I may have to kill. I don't have time for this."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"He's a good man. It's not his fault trouble keeps following him around."
— from _Desperadoes: Banners of Gold_
"His plans never work right. They just work."
— Amy Allen, from _The A-Team_
"They fight the system...any system."
— from _The Dukes of Hazzard_ pilot episode, 1979
"Some people would call that an extreme position."
— from _Death Wish 3_
"I don't think I get it."
"You get it, all right - you just can't handle it."
— from _The Fly_ (1986)
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
— Albert Einstein
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
— Elbert Hubbard
"Did it ever occur to you where people like you would be without people like us?"
— from _The A-Team_ episode _Semi-Friendly Persuasion_
"I don't want to be a secret weapon. I want to be an exposed weapon!"
— H. M. Murdock, from _The A-Team_
"You know what you're doing, right?"
"I always know what I'm doing."
— from _Red Planet_
"What are you?"
"Complicated."
— Dorian Gray, from _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_
"It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are. It is our choices."
— from _Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_
"We had nothing to do with this."
"You had everything to do with this."
— from _Dracula 2_
"Aren't you being a bit paranoid?"
"Maybe, but if I'm not, you can thank me later."
— from an _A-Team_ episode
"There's no way he'll help you."
"Sure he will. He just hasn't been asked the right way."
— from _The A-Team_
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
— Dwight Eisenhower
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
— Bertrand Russell
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
— Henry Louis Mencken
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"What do you want to do?"
"Kill them all."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"That's the problem with you people...you're not scared enough."
— from some _Lost_ season 2 episode
"Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional."
— Max Lucado
"The price one pays for pursuing a profession is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
— James Arthur Baldwin
"what the hell you doin this for anyway?"
"Wyatt Earp is my friend."
"Hell, I got lots of friends."
"I don't."
— Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Doc Holliday, from _Tombstone_
"To become the victor, one must first be victorious over oneself."
— from _Kill and Kill Again_
"What are we going to do?"
"We'll have to mount an attack on them right away."
"Attack...what kind of attack?"
"A classic."
— from an unknown episode of _The A-Team_
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
— Plato
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
— General George S. Patton
"To be good at this, you have to learn to enjoy it."
— from the _Fury: Peacemaker_ comic series
"You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: what if?"
— from _The Time Machine_ (2002)
"You only know his reputation...but I know his work."
— from _Invasion U.S.A._
"Sometimes the living aren't ready to hear what the dead have to say."
— from _Desperadoes: Banners of Gold_
"Everybody keeps records...even ones they never want found."
— Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
— Isaac Asimov
"Every man's got a devil, and you can't rest until you find him."
— from _The Crow_
"You never know how clever - or stupid - the enemy is until you test them."
— Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, from _The A-Team_
"You think they'll come for you?"
"I pray they come for me."
— from _Belly of the Beast_
"This is not a threat. This is an opportunity."
— from _X-Men 2_
"What are you going to do about him?"
"Something massive."
— from _The Eiger Sanction_
"Call it what you want...wetwork, termination, sanction...it all adds up to the same thing...killing."
— from _The Eiger Sanction_
"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"It takes one person to do something stupid...but it takes a whole bunch of people to do something really stupid."
— from _Dracula 2: Ascension_
"Effort is the difference between victory and defeat."
— unknown
"You never had any patience."
"I don't have time."
— from _Invasion USA_
"It ain't how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose."
— Jesse Ventura, WWF commentator, WrestleMania 4 (1986)
"All we are is dust in the wind..."
— Kansas
"You never had any patience."
"I don't have time."
— from _Invasion USA_
"That's the problem with people like you...you want results, but you never want to get your hands dirty."
— Jack Bauer, from _24_
"I think we ought to just kill them all."
— from _Wyatt Earp_
"The only morality in an immoral world is chance."
— from _The Dark Knight_
"Some of us have always lived on edge...it is possible to survive there if observe rules...just hang on by fingernails and never look down"
— Rorschach, from _Watchmen_
"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy."
— Seneca
"The only sure way not to do anything wrong is not to do anything."
— Mike Purdy, U.S. Navy SEAL
"That's not a problem - that's an opportunity."
— from _Heroes_ episode 4.8, _Once Upon a Time in Texas_
"What have you done?"
"I chose."
— from _Hellboy_ (2004)
"Put yourself in their situation."
"I'm not in their situation. I'm in mine."
— Kyle Reese, from the _Terminator_ novelization
"Hope for the best, plan for the worst."
"Is that your motto?"
"One of many."
— from _61 Hours_, by Lee Child
"If you start down this path, where does it end?"
"When we've won."
— from _The Bourne Supremacy_
"How the hell do you know that?"
"Because I'm a genius."
— from _Armageddon_ (1998)
"There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated."
— from _The Social Network_
"Is it madness...which drives a man of my genius to strive for an impossible prize...or is it the striving for that which is ever just out of reach which prevents madness from overtaking me?"
— Doctor Doom, from _Secret Wars_
"Sometimes, not knowing how crazy something is...is a good thing."
— from _Pirates of Silicon Valley_ (1999)
"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."
— General George S. Patton
"I used to hear about you all the time. But they never could catch you, no matter what you did."
"Sooner or later, they catch everybody."
— from _Escape From L.A._
"Success is a menace...it fools smart people into thinking that they can't lose."
— from _Pirates of Silicon Valley_
"Do you always live in the dark?"
"Well, you meet a better class of people in the dark sometimes."
— from _Magnum Force_ (1973)
"Preemptive action is the only action here."
— Major Stryker, from _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_
"Apparently you like a little edge."
"All I can get."
— from _Dirty Harry_ (1971)
"The sanity of the plan is of no consequence."
"And why is that?"
"Because he can do it!"
— from _Captain America: The First Avenger_ (2011)
"It's not just a question of whether or not to use violence... there simply is no other way."
— from _Magnum Force_ (1973)
"It's not safe for you to be here."
"I'm not looking for safe."
— from _Machete_ (2010)
"In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil."
— from _The Chronicles of Riddick_ (2004)
"With a small, dedicated group, there is nothing that can't be accomplished."
— from _Red_ (2010)
"Walk away. Trust me, this is one you're not going to want to see through to the end."
— from _Desperado_ (1995)
"What's the point of having this thing if I don't get to use it?"
— from _John Carter_ (2012)
"You're not just responsible for making good decisions...you have to be responsible for the bad ones."
— from _The Core_
"And what you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger...the drive to do great or terrible things."
— from _Batman Begins_
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'"
— Johnny Carson
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
"There are no innocent people...only killers and victims."
— from _Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever_
"If you can keep up and don't mind dying...come along."
— from _Clash of the Titans_ (2010)
"The truth is, to try robbing us would be so futile that only a complete fool would attempt it."
"Yeah...or a complete madman."
— from _For a Few Dollars More_ (1965)
"It's not too late to call this off."
"I think you know me better than that."
— Oliver and Helena, from _Arrow_ episode "The Huntress Returns"
"What is it you want?"
"I want it all."
— Cobra Commander, from _G.I. Joe: Retaliation_
"But it's suicide."
"Not if I don't die."
— from _Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode "Turn, Turn, Turn"
"Too much has been lost for us to leave here with nothing."
— Charles Weyland, from _Alien vs Predator_
"A life, some would argue, is a series of problems. There's no denying the truth in that - but why get lost in it? Why not rise above the truth...and lead a good life? Shouldn't we all look at problems as a chance for us to find...solutions?"
— Lex Luthor, Man of Steel #1 (2005)
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something, because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough."
— Randy Pausch, from _The Last Lecture_
"You think ahead."
"Can't afford not to."
— from _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_
"It wasn't humanly possible for anyone to follow me!"
"Then someone has inhumanly followed you."
— _The Six Million Dollar Man_ episode _Carnival of Spies_
"I welcome any enterprise that will increase my stock...which is considerable."
— Auric Goldfinger, from _Goldfinger_
"If you see anything strange, I want to know."
"You kidding? The whole place is strange."
— from _Riptide_ by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
"Knowledge is power...and I want that knowledge."
— from _the A-Team_ season 5, episode 8, _Family Reunion_
"Everything powerful is dangerous."
— from _Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _The Asset_
"I've come to warn you...you're in great danger."
"I usually am."
— Andrea and Bond, from _The Man With the Golden Gun_, 1974
"Violence just seems to follow me."
— from _Bad Ass_
"Think we're going to run into any trouble?"
"Probably."
"Trying to scare me?"
"No. Just trying to prepare you."
— from unknown issue of an old _Punisher_ comic
"I'm combat-proficient. I don't need a babysitter."
— Maggie Chan, from _The Expendables 2_
"When's the last time anything went according to plan?"
"I don't think there was a last time."
— from _Legends of Tomorrow_ episode 1.12 _Last Refuge_
"There's a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand."
— Jorah Mormont, from _Game of Thrones_ episode _Valar Dohaeris_
"I don't know if we're ready."
"Let's get ready, then."
— from _Creed 2_
"We all gotta accept death. It gives us the edge."
— B.A. Baracus, from _The A-Team_ episode _Children of Jamestown_
"Do you think I'm losing my grip?"
"No, it's just the opposite, really. You seem calm. Scary calm."
— Oliver Queen and John Diggle, from unknown _Arrow_ episode
"There is a fundamental difference between you and I."
"Yeah. You're a psychopath."
— from _Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury_
"Think defense."
"No. There's someone I need to kill."
— from _Death Race_
"Sometimes what you've learned conflicts with what you know."
— from _Children of the Corn 2_
"Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius."
— Zorin, from _A View to a Kill_
"Sounds dangerous."
"It's very dangerous."
"Count me in."
— Alan Shepard, from _The Right Stuff_
"You learn a few good tricks when you've been a target all your life."
— from _Ultimate X-Men_
"There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man."
— Billy, from _Predator_
"I have a certain...experience in handling matters of this kind, so if you do need any help, feel free to call on me."
— _The Equalizer_ episode _Out of the Past_ (1985)
"What can you do?"
"Well, I can equalize the odds...make them more in your favor."
"How?"
"I have ways."
— from _The Equalizer_ pilot episode (1985)
"Don't overestimate my good nature. I don't have one."
— from _War Man_ (1993 comic by Chuck Dixon)
"I can do little now. He will have to find his own path. If that is what he wants. Be warned, the places a man like him may go can be very hard to escape from."
— from _Jonah Hex_ #70, March 1983
"What choice do we have?"
"That's the wrong question. What you should be asking...is what can we choose to do about it?"
— from _Lex Luthor, Man of Steel_ (2005)
"This place hasn't been safe since long before me and mine."
— from _Big Legend_
"Are you threatening us?"
"Absolutely."
— from _Eraser_
"Seems I...underestimated you."
"Consistently."
— from _Hitman_ (2007)
"Time to stop playing defense and get back on offense."
— Agent May, from _Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _Emancipation_
"Turns out fear is a powerful motivator, even more powerful than greed."
— Boyd Crowder, from an unknown episode of _Justified_
"Members of your curious profession are few in number."
— from _Goldfinger_
"One man's tool is another man's weapon."
"In your mind, perhaps. But there aren't many things you can't turn into a weapon."
— from _The Dark Knight Rises_
"The people who made the world are the people who were the risk- takers, the people who didn't play it safe, the people who can see opportunity where others see only risk."
— narration from _Mankind: The Story of All of Us_
"This place has everything."
"Everything except a reason why."
— from _Fantastic Four #88, July 1969
"I hate mysteries. They bug me. They need to be solved."
— Barry Allen, from _Arrow_ episode 2.8, _The Scientist_
"We don't have all the answers...but we do have purpose."
— Andromache of Scythia, from _The Old Guard_
"This job...we try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes, that doesn't mean everybody. But if we can't find a way to live with that...then next time...maybe nobody gets saved."
— Captain America, from _Captain America: Civil War_
"When the dead walk, the living will fill these coffins."
— from _Sherlock Holmes_ (2009)
"A widespread investigation.....has concluded that the unburied dead have been returning to life and seeking human victims."
— from _Night of the Living Dead_ (1968)
"Please. Let's find another way."
"I don't know any other way."
— from _Preacher_ season 4 episode 4, _Search and Rescue_
"It's senseless!"
"I'm sure it makes sense to somebody."
— unknown movie or book
"That's not an option."
"You're right. It's not an option...it's the ONLY option."
— from _The Ice Limit_ by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
"Have you got any ideas that won't get us killed?"
"I've got a few I'm working on."
— from _The Expendables 2_
"He had crashed through the barrier. He had stopped worrying and started relaxing. He was up on that plateau where you just did whatever needed doing. I knew that place. I lived there."
— from _Killing Floor_, by Lee Child
"Our friends are missing, maybe dead."
"Yeah, as always."
— from _Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _The Patriot_
"You will be thrilled to see how much can be learned when we use artifacts as tools, not collectibles."
— Paracelsus, from _Warehouse 13_ episode _Endless Terror_
"I hope you find what you're looking for."
"I plan to."
— from _The Midnight Line_, by Lee Child
"We might not find anything."
"I found something."
— from _Stranger things_ episode 1.3 (_Holly, Jolly_)
"What are we getting into here?"
"We're not getting into anything...we're already there."
— from _the Equalizer_ episode 1.7 (_The Childrens' Song_)
"Half of everything is luck."
"And the other half?"
"Fate."
— from _Goldeneye_
"I'd sit this one out."
"I don't see how I can."
— Black Widow and Captain America, from _The Avengers_ (2012)
"A wolf remains a wolf, even if it has not eaten your sheep."
— V.I.N.CENT, from _The Black Hole_ (1979)
"What do you think you're doing?"
"The usual. Double-crossing evil."
— Modeus and Qubit, from _Irredeemable_
"I don't want things to be easy. I want them to be right."
— from _The Day of the Triffids_ (2009 BBC version)
"Let them hate, so long as they fear."
— Emperor Caligula, circa A.D. 37
"Half of writing history is hiding the truth."
— from _Serenity_
"She's different...like me."
"Not different...special."
— Ian and Samuel, from the _Heroes_ episode _Upon This Rock_
"I thought he was helping us!"
"I'm pretty sure we're helping him."
— from _Star Trek: Into Darkness_
"If we do this, there's no going back."
"There never was."
— from _Superfly_ (1972)
"Why do you help all these people?"
"There's two kinds of people in this world...people who help and people who need help. It's a choice."
— from _Stingray_ (1986-1987) episode _The Neniwa_
"Do we _want_ to go down?"
"Where else can we go?"
— Dana and Marty, from _the Cabin in the Woods_
"Little late in the semester to be starting a course, isn't it?"
"Oh, I'm a quick study."
— from _Stingray_ (1986-1987) episode _Orange Blossom_
"All creatures feel fear."
"Even the scary ones?"
"Especially the scary ones."
— from _Batman Begins_
"He had nothing to lose, which was why he was going to win."
— from the novelization of _Hard Times_ (1975)
"When's the last time anything went according to plan?"
"I don't think there was a last time."
— from _Legends of Tomorrow_ episode _Last Refuge_
"They said your team played a dangerous game."
"We play to win."
— from _The Six Million Dollar Man_ episode _Target: Steve Austin_
"You're out of your mind."
"That's between me and my mind."
— Simon and Early, from _Firefly_ episode #14, _Objects in Space_
"Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
— Tacitus
"They are the best, and they specialize in the ridiculous!"
— Captain Sosa, from _The A-Team_ film (2010)
"All of us are born weak. We have to learn to be strong, or we perish. A simple fact of life and death."
— from _the Wolf's Hour_
"The fact that we don't understand the purpose of a thing opens it to tremendous speculation."
— from the _Ancient Aliens_ season 1 bonus documentary
"How are you so calm, anyway?"
"I'm getting used to this sort of thing."
— from _Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _Emancipation_
"There's no such thing as the unknown, only the temporarily hidden."
— from _Star Trek: Beyond_
"Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance."
— old British Army adage
"It is my job to keep you alive. I will not succeed. Not with all of you."
— Colonel Quaritch, from _Avatar_
"This doesn't have to end in a fight."
"It always ends in a fight."
— from _Captain America: Civil War_
"Why'd we do it?"
"No one else would."
"Are you ready for this?"
"Let's find out."
— from _X-Men: First Class_
"It's a blessed miracle!"
"I make my own miracles."
— from _Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend_ (1978)
"The question is not if, but how."
— unknown
"Do you require backup?"
"No."
— from _Dredd_
"We cannot allow the world to be this way."
— Dr. Axel Brass, from _Planetary_ issue 5
"I'm a blunt instrument, and I'm damn good at it."
— from _Aquaman_ (2018)
"It's why most battles are won in the first few seconds...surprise, and overwhelming force."
— from _Marvel Universe vs Punisher_ (2010)
"Obviously you can pull together a list of reasons you can't do things, as long as your arm, but that wasn't the way you did things in those days. What you really did is say...Why can't we?"
— Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director for the Gemini and Apollo programs
"How can you be doing all this...I don't understand."
"Sometimes, neither do I."
— from _The Equalizer_ episode 1.13, _Back Home_
"You're a weird guy. This is what you do for a living? You're like a shark...you keep moving forward, you never stop, you're in it for the moment and then you're out again. I gotta tell you, it's a little hard to follow."
"I didn't plan it that way."
— from _Stingray_ (1986-1987) episode _Orange Blossom_
"You have no sense of time."
"Of course I do. It's just different than yours."
— From _the Last Witch Hunter_
"People with this kind of firepower do not make mistakes about who they visit."
— from _The Transporter_
"Are you sure you want to find it? Some things are better left unfound."
— from _Abominable_ (2006)
"So...they want to fight."
"Can you imagine for one minute that they wouldn't?"
— from _The Six Million Dollar Man_ episode 4.6, _Kill Oscar_
"I don't fight for honor. I fight to win."
— Kinjo, from _The Hunted_ (1995)
"Overkill is underrated, my friend."
— from _The A-Team_ movie (2010)
"I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it _can_ do."
— Gene Kranz, from _Apollo 13_
"You've lost."
"I don't know how to lose."
"You'll learn."
— from _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_
"I think he might be in some kind of trouble...real trouble."
"Well, isn't he always?"
— from _X-Men: Apocalypse_
"Knowledge is the currency of the universe."
— Giorgio Tsoukalos, from _Ancient Aliens_ episode 4.2, _The Doomsday Prophecies_
"I am a woman of infinite surprises."
— Mrs. Frederick, from _Warehouse 13_ episode _Endless_
"Lesson one...always have a contingency plan."
— Sturgess, from _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter_
"Are we going to see you again?"
"I might turn up."
— Gayleen and Chaney, from _Hard Times_
"What's the point of being an outlaw when you've got responsibilities?"
— Jesse, from _Breaking Bad_ episode _Kafkaesque_
"It's not what you did...it's who you did it to."
— Viggo Tasarov, from _John Wick_
"There are people in the world who deal only in extremes."
"And it would be naive to think that anything less than extreme measures will stop them."
— from _Arrow_ episode _The Brave and the Bold_
"Like I said before, running isn't my style. Killing these bastards is."
— from _Punisher Max_ #74
"I'm better at this than they are. To them it's a job. To me it's a war."
— from _Punisher_ volume 1 issue 49
"I'm just trying to do what I've always tried to do."
"Which is?"
"Get people to leave us the hell alone."
— from _Justified_ (episode _Coalition_)
"Sometimes we make wrong choices to get to the right place."
— Susan Plummer, from _The Equalizer_ (2014)
"They're not strange, they're passionate."
— unknown
"I only wanted to do good."
"Then actually do good."
— from _Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _Identity and Change_
"I hope this isn't a mistake."
"I don't make mistakes."
— from _Superman: Red Son_
"How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do?"
— from _Invictus_
"Society operates by consensus. We all agree to abide by the rules. What you need to understand...what I have only begun to understand...is that you and I are outside that system. And I'm slowly starting to figure out just what that really means."
— Mark Milton, from _Supreme Power_
"The anger is not enough."
"It's gotten the job done all this time."
"It's nearly gotten you killed all this time."
— from _X-Men: First Class_
"I have experience...and patience. A man can do anything if he has those."
— from _Captain America: Civil War_
"The psychological niche where you'll find the man who can shoulder aside these two behavioral opposites is very narrow. The ideal is a man who, from the safety of long range, can kill when it is required but is immune to the impulse o continue killing when the situation is resolved. A man whose psyche is strong and so fundamentally rooted in a ersonal philosophy or religion that he doesn't suffer unduly from taking human life under appropriate conditions."
— Eric Haney, from _Inside Delta Force_
"You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place."
— Albert Einstein
"What's the plan?"
"Track him, find him, kill him."
— from _The Expendables 2_
"I didn't say the plan was foolproof. No plan ever is."
— from _The Wolf's Hour_
"In a fair fight I'd kill you."
"That's not incentive for me to fight fair, is it?"
— from _Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl_
"You can't help me."
"Maybe I can tell you something you don't know."
— from _The Six Million dollar Man_ episode _The Rescue of Athena One_
"Didn't you ever want to change the world?"
"Yeah, once. But it didn't work out, it was never organized well enough, o one ever wanted to hit the world where it lived...we always went after the soldiers, not the generals..."
"I still want to change the world. And I'll hit the world wherever I damned well have to, in order to see it done."
— Henry Bendix and Jenny Sparks, from _Stormwatch_
"It's the next step...if you have the courage to take it."
— from _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_
"There's nothing that can't be done."
— McManus, from _The Usual Suspects_
"We're not in the business of next time. We're in the business of one time."
— from _Sniper: Ghost Shooter_
"It's dangerous."
"I'd be disappointed if it wasn't."
— from _Avengers: Age of Ultron_
"I'm not that old. I've just been here a very long time."
— Elmer Hill, 12/14/13 (aged 107, lived 1906-2015)
"Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd?"
— Wash, from _Serenity_
"It'll never be an ideal world as long as there are people in it."
"Maybe the right kind of people can MAKE it ideal."
— from _The Incredible Hulk_ issue 379, 3/1991
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay
"Preemptive action is the only action here."
— Segen, from _World War Z_
"So you're working with governments? The military?"
"No, we're actually efficient."
— from _Sharknado 5_
"We need allies. We need more like us."
"There aren't any more like us."
"Not yet. But there will be."
— Superman, Wonder Woman, and Lex Luthor, from _Injustice_
"This war has made me realize that we cannot rely on politicians to do their job properly. So I decided that I should do something about it."
— Orlando Oxford, from _The King's Man_
"Logistically, it's a miracle that it occurred...but there was a plan for that miracle, so I hand it to them."
— Robert Downey Jr, about the Marvel Cinematic Universe
"The old crew still around?"
"Except the dead ones."
"We're going to need them."
— from _Wasabi_
"Big dreams require big actions."
— from _Queer Eye_ episode _Snow White of Central Texas_
"Just like old times, isn't it? Well, not just like old times, but just as crazy."
— from _Army of the Dead_
"The reason they call it special warfare is because it's special. The minute you start being conventional in thinking, conventional in anything, you're no longer special and there's no reason to have you."
— Richard Marcinko, founder of SEAL Team Six
"A fighter who plans is ten times as lethal as one who doesn't."
— from _Operation Field Guide_ by Jeff Kirkham
"A force multiplier is a capability or technology that when properly used significantly increases the potential of the particular force used and enhances the probability of success."
— Richard Duarte, _Surviving Doomsday_
"A solid plan, violently executed, is better than a perfect plan too late."
— from _Apocalypse 101_ episode _Expect the Unexpected_
"You are insane."
"Quite possibly. But insanity has its uses."
— from _Pale Horse Coming_ by Stephen Hunter
"We're not invincible. We've probably just been lucky this whole time."
— Roman, from _F9_
"It's a strange thing, this life we've chosen. We know that the odds tell us without doubt that we'll one day be killed in the wilds, but we keep telling ourselves that it won't be this day at least, and so we walk farther along that same road."
— Regis, from _The Thousand Orcs_
"It takes more than intelligence to act intelligently."
— from _Anna_
"Please tell me you have a brilliant plan."
"I don't even have a regular plan."
— from the _Arrow_ episode _Public Enemy_
"That's not a choice, it's a lack of options."
— from _Armageddon_
"We're talking about a calculated risk...which is about the only option left to us."
— John Hammond, from _Jurassic Park_
"What happened?"
"Nothing we can't fix."
— from _Scarface_ (1983)
"With great powers such as ours come equally great responsibilities, but we've never fully faced up to that fact."
— Hyperion, from _Squadron Supreme_ (1985)
"But when you get in the professional world and you're outpacing people and you're doing things different, then it becomes a competition and they don't appreciate it. I've heard it all, and this is very typical: 'Are you just trying to overdo it because you're a woman?' No, motherfucker. This is how I am."
— Rachel Balkovec (first female manager in professional baseball)
"War is the implementation of policy by other means. We _are_ that means."
— from _Squadron Supreme_ (2006) issue 4
"There are killers, and there are killers. To tell you the truth, they all have a different book of rules. To get away with it depends on the book of rules you have in your pocket at the time...your own country, somebody else's country, or your own personal book of rules."
— Arthur Bishop, from _The Mechanic_ (1972)
"I am not a murderer. I am a force of nature. A servant of fate. I enable destiny."
— Vandal Savage, from _DC's Legends of Tomorrow_
"When you hit people with objects for a living...you become an expert at, you know, hitting people with objects for a living."
— Stone Cold Steve Austin, from _WWE Legends_
"And therein lies the truth: to be truly capable of doing battle with an extremely violent, murderous enemy, you have to be just as capable and just as willing to inflict harm to them as they are to you."
— Varg Freeborn, self-defense and tactics expert
"He thinks I'm being extreme...but I have to deal in extremes if I'm going to make a difference. That's the only way to make the war work."
— from _The Punisher_ volume 2 (1987) issue 71
"I think there is something very strange going on over there, and I think it's about time I started to find out what. Now there are various ways I can go about that. I intend to use the direct approach."
— from _The Equalizer_ episode _Pretenders_ (1985)
"It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions."
— Erik Selvig, from _Thor_ (2011)
"Why fight when you can negotiate? All one needs is the proper leverage."
— from _Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest_
"It is no more than a slight complication."
"Then I will un-complicate it for you."
— from _Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _All the Madame's Men_
"Fighting isn't about fair. It's about winning."
— Eddie Huang, from the _Fresh off the Boat_ book
"You know, some days maybe you just can't save the whole world. Maybe you're better off getting your own house in order."
— from the _Heroes_ episode _Close to You_
"The word 'impossible'...is only found in the dictionary of fools."
— Dr. Reinhardt, from _the Black Hole_
"I don't have to make a plan. Because I already made one."
— Agent May, from _Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._ episode _Face My Enemy_
"I would encourage you to think about what happens after what happens next."
— Raylan Givens, from _Justified_ episode _Over the Mountain_
"History will be kind to me because I intend to write it."
— Winston Churchill
"Risk is the price of progress."
— Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director for the Gemini and Apollo programs
"There is something down here."
— from _The Meg_
"Did you use unnecessary deadly force?"
"I used everything I had."
— from _Cobra_ (1986)
"You do the best you can with what you know...and when you know better, you do better. That's the hardest lesson to learn being a leader."
— from _SEAL Team_ episode _A Perfect Storm_
"There's a sacrifice to greatness...and it's a price that a lot of people are not willing to pay."
— from _WWE Legends: _Stone Cold_
"I want you to do something for me. It's dangerous."
"Good. I'm in."
— from _The Godfather Part III_
"Knowledge is power. If you understand something, it can never truly control you."
— from _Terminator Zero_
"They're about to be taught a lesson in the REAL use of power."
— Hans Gruber, from _Die Hard_
"The people who made the world are the people who were the risk-takers, the people who didn't play it safe, the people who can see opportunity where others see only risk."
— from _Mankind: The Story of All of Us_
"People who lack vision are threatened by those who have it."
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, from _Be Useful_
"There's never been an armed occupation in history that wasn't overthrown by force."
— from _Arrow_ season 3 episode 12, _Uprising_
"What do we do?"
"Only one thing we can...we go to war."
— from _The Punisher_ (1989)
"There was no hesitation or reluctance...it was maximum force applied without conscience but with considerable skill."
— from _Pale Horse Coming_, by Stephen Hunter
"What have I done?"
"What you had to do...what you always do...turn death into a fighting chance to live."
— from _Star Trek III: The Search For Spock_
"You have to know more about your enemy than he knows about you. That means keeping your ass hid while you study his. That means limiting your encounters with him. The more times you fight the more he learns about your moves. Make the first fight the last fight whenever you can. Find him. Fuck him. And forget him."
— Gunny Sergeant Leffertz, from _Levon's Trade_
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"Why is any object we don't understand always called a 'thing'?"
— Dr. McCoy, from _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_
"What should I say to an invitation from a strange gentleman?"
"You should say yes!"
— Honey Rider & James Bond, _Dr. No_
"Is that...?"
"Magic...the darkest magic. My soul swims in it."
— from _Big Trouble in Little China_
"I'm the best there is at what I do - and what I do isn't very nice."
— Wolverine
"Thou strange piece of wild nature!"
— _The Lady's Last Stake_ by Colley Cibber
"Whatever advice you give, be short."
— Horace, _Ars Poetica_
"The true test of civilization is not the census, not size of cities, but the kind of man that the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm alone. I'm not lonely."
— Neil McCauley, _Heat_
"Beyond that gate lies my destiny. You can be a part of it or a victim of it. The choice is yours."
— Xusia, from _The Sword & the Sorceror_
"All right, I'll prove it...but I'll need someone to prove it _on_."
— Bruce Lee, from _Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story_
"You're crazy!"
"Oh, I'm much more than that."
— from _The Howling_
"Politics and crime - they're the same thing."
— from _The Godfather_
"No time for sanity, chum..."
— the Tick
"We're in the middle of nowhere."
"Stuff like this only happens in the middle of nowhere."
— from _Tremors 2_
"The path to knowledge is saying 'I do not know'."
— from _Kung Fu_
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
— variously attributed
"In a world of madmen, one must go about armed."
— from _What If?_ #13, by Marvel Comics
"Never underestimate a woman."
— anonymous
"The question isn't who am I? The question is, _where_ am I?"
— from _Scream_
"If we're lucky, they're all dead."
"If they're lucky, they _are_ all dead."
— ???
"There are many moments for ruthless action. What is often called ruthless...may in many circumstances be clarity seeing clearly what is to be done and doing it...directly... quickly...awake...looking at it."
— from _Apocalypse Now_
"You were born to become a chalk outline."
— from _Murder at 1600_
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
— Matt Groening
"No wonder you never show your face."
"This _is_ my face."
— from a _Boba Fett_ comic
"He's told us what he's not - he hasn't told us what he _is_."
— from _Breakheart Pass_
This page was last updated on 10 December 2025
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