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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
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Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized
by a sense of Universal responsibility,
not only nation to nation and human to human,
but also human to other forms of life.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
I see you.
- the movie Avatar
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Don't dream it, be it.
- the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Pie, pie, pie.
- Michael (1996)
- the movie Michael (1996)
Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I know how hard it is in these times to have faith.
But maybe if you could have the faith to start with,
maybe the times would change.
You could change them. Think about it. Try.
And try not to hurt each other.
- the movie Oh, God!
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
If you build it, he will come.
- the movie Field of Dreams
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for,
and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?
- said by Donkey in the movie Shrek 2
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
The world's mental.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
It happens - Sometimes.
- the movie Forrest Gump
I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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