People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with d...
I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.
Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
Roden: Sphingid ceratonia, maybe. [cuts open cocoon] Roden: Agent Starling, meet Mr. Acherontia styx. Pilcher: Weird. Roden: Better known to his friends as the Death's-head moth.
Frank Booth: Here's to Ben! [Frank punches Jeffrey in the face] Frank Booth: Say, "Here's to Ben." Jeffrey Beaumont: [scared to death] Here's to Ben. Frank Booth: Be polite!
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Dog Boy: Look Cap'n, look what he done to Blue. He's dead, he's dead. he run himself plum to death.
Sister Helen Prejean: Look at you. Death is looking down your neck, and you're playing your little male come-on games.
The Mechanic: In death, a member of project mayhem has a name, his name is Robert Paulsen. His name is Robert Paulsen. His name is Robert Paulsen. His name is Robert Paulsen...
[after their escape from the Death Eaters] Ron Weasley: You're amazing, you are! Hermione Granger: [wryly] Always the tone of surprise.
Ben Sanderson: I came here to drink myself to death. Sera: How long will it take you? Ben Sanderson: I'd say about three to four weeks.
[after hearing of his father's death] Gareth Peirce: [With tears in her eyes] Well, I think they ought to take the word 'compassion' out of the English dictionary.
Robert Angier: But here, at the turn, I must leave you Borden. Yes, you, Borden, sitting there in your cell, awaiting your death. For my murder.
Sallah: Indy, there is something that troubles me. Indiana: What is it? Sallah: The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
Sgt. Schulz: How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns? Lt. James Skylar Dunbar: We sort of hope you'd laugh yourselves to death.
Harold Crick: [crying] You're asking me to knowingly face my death? Professor Jules Hilbert: Yes. Harold Crick: Really? Professor Jules Hilbert: Yes.
Helena Glabrus: [after she has selected the best gladiators to fight to the death] Do my choices displease you? Batiatus: Oh no, Lady Helena. I tingle.
Scott Pilgrim: We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.
Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: I've lived with these men, sir, for two and a half years and I will not order them all to their deaths.
[climbing an on-deck staircase to the stern as the ship is about to sink] Male Passenger: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... Jack: You want to walk a little faster through that valley there?
