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Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod. Lyndon Johnson: A pot? Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, spl...

The Right Stuff

[Brick-Top's men have Turkish pinned on the floor. Errol raises a sword to strike, then Tommy appears with his dud pistol] Tommy: Turkish, get your arse up. Any of you lot follow me, and I'll fucking shoot you. Errol: Calm down son, behave yourself. ...

Snatch.

Moses: You know it is death to strike an Egyptian? Joshua: I know it. Moses: Yet you struck him. Why? Joshua: To save the old woman. Moses: What is she to you? Joshua: An old woman. [Joshua was defending his Hebrew race] Egyptian guard: Lord Prince, ...

The Ten Commandments

[Charles appears just as Raven points a gun at Trask] Raven: Get out of my head, Charles! Charles Xavier: Raven, please do not make us the enemy today. Raven: Look around you, we already are! Charles Xavier: Not all of us, Raven. All you've done so f...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

[after Juror #8 has established that the old man witness could not have heard the killing over the noise of the elevated train] Juror #3: Why should he lie? What's he got to gain? Juror #9: Attention, maybe. Juror #3: You keep coming in with these br...

12 Angry Men

Captain America: You need men in these buildings. There are people inside and they're going to be running right into the line of fire. You take them to the basements, or through the subway. You keep them off the streets. I need a perimeter as far bac...

The Avengers

Bruce Wayne - age 8: [riding his father's monorail] Did you build this train, Dad? Thomas Wayne: Gotham's been good to our family, but the city's been suffering. People less fortunate than us have been enduring very hard times. So we built a new, che...

Batman Begins

Monsignor: And I am reminded, on this holy day, of the sad story of Kitty Genovese. As you all may remember, a long time ago, almost thirty years ago, this poor soul cried out for help time and time again, but no person answered her calls. Though man...

The Boondock Saints

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

The Curse of Chalion

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Christ and Culture

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

The Captive & The Fugitive

 “Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.” “Exactly,” she agreed.

Chocky

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

The Children of Men

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

The Children of Men

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

Commencement

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Candide

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

Calling Romeo

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

City of Silence

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Democracy in America

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Democracy in America