John Keating: They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary..

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

Live the good life. Drink, smoke, gamble, feast, joke, fornicate and be tolerant of those who do. Take risks and thrive for the good challenge. Work hard and play hard without going over the edge. Live in the moment. Believe in moderation in all things, including moderation. Live it up!

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Dean Vernon Wormer: The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

Buddy Holly: The sky belongs to the stars.

Rita: Have you ever had déjà-vu?
Phil: Didn't you just ask me that?

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan..."

Kris Kringle: Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.

Yoda : Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible.

The world saw that spirit three miles from here, when the people of this city faced peril together, and lifted a flag over the ruins, and defied the enemy with their courage. My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, and here a nation rose.

Emperor Meiji : Tell me how he died.
Algren : I will tell you how he lived.

Davy Crockett: Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.

John Kinsella: Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella: It's Iowa.
John Kinsella: Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.
[John starts to walk away]
Ray Kinsella: Is there a heaven?
John Kinsella: Oh yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.
[Ray looks around, seeing his wife playing with their daughter on the porch.]
Ray Kinsella: Maybe this is heaven.

Pippo Popolino: Don't be frightened, Francesca. I'm scared enough for all of us.

Potter: Brave men run in my family.

Chester: Am I dead?
Duke: I can't tell, you always look that way.

Turkey Jackson: I hope she didn't hear that. The dead have a way of coming back you know.
Jeff: Get out, when they're dead they're dead.
Turkey Jackson: Not Aunt Lucy, she was a republican.

In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog and a Frenchman is not perceptible.

Piggy: We did everything just the way grownups would've. Why didn't it work?

Dr. Emil Reingold: Mickey and Mallory know the difference between right and wrong; they just don't give a damn.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

Scarlett: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tommorrow.
After all ... tomorrow is another day.

Jareth: You remind me of the babe.
Goblin: What babe?
Jareth: The babe with the power.
Different Goblin: What power?
Jareth: The power of voodoo.
Goblin: Who do?
Jareth: You do.
Goblin: Do what?
Jareth: Remind me of the babe.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

President Whitmore:We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive!

Bill Cole: The next time you're going to do anything or say anything or buy anything, think it over very carefully. When you're sure you're right, forget the whole thing.

Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Bonn.
Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!
Hujar: Jawohl?
Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.

Mary Matthews: Oh, that's silly. No woman could ever run for President. She'd have to admit she's over 35.

Tracy Lord: You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

Amanda Bonner: What I said was true, there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.
Adam Bonner: They are?
Amanda Bonner: Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.
Adam Bonner: Well, you know as the French say...
Amanda Bonner: What do they say?
Adam Bonner: Vive la difference!
Amanda Bonner: Which means?
Adam Bonner: Which means hurrah for that little difference.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Sy Parrish: Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Ann: If it were raining hundred dollar bills out, you'd be looking for a dime you lost somewhere!

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.