Quotes of: His Keyword

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

Ralphie: [in his fantasy, Ralphie explains the cause of his blindness] It... It 'twas... soap poisoning!

A Christmas Story

[Victor is dangling by his braces from a weather-vane with his bare buttocks showing] Reverend Clement Hedges: Beware the moon!

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Sonny: [to a cop with his gun drawn] You see that? [points his finger like a gun] Sonny: Put it in your holster!

Dog Day Afternoon

Wind In His Hair: [watching Dunbar dance around like a buffalo] His mind is gone!

Dances with Wolves

George: He's very fussy about his drums, you know. They loom large in his legend.

A Hard Day's Night

Fischer: [handing his abductors his wallet] There's five hundred dollars in there. And the wallet's worth more than that.

Inception

[Talking to Michael Jr] John Rooney: A man of honor always pays his debts... and keeps his word.

Road to Perdition

Niki Lauda: A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Rush

Max Fischer: Sic transit gloria. Glory fades. I'm Max Fischer. Rosemary Cross: Hi. Max Fischer: Hi.

Rushmore

[Red places his bet on Andy] Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.

The Shawshank Redemption

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

David Josiah Brewer

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Horatio Nelson

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Phillips Brooks

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Stephen Ambrose

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Deana Carter

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson