NASA Director:
This could be the worst disaster NASA’s ever experienced.
Gene Kranz:
With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.
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J.T. LeRoy (2018)
Laura:
You’re as much a part of JT as me.
Hiroshima – min älskade (1959)
Lui:
Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love’s forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Maya:
[to Navy SEALs]
Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn’t believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they’re using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn’t there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you’re going to kill him for me.
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Herman Melville:
Something else you’ve given me tonight.
Old Thomas Nickerson:
And what’s that?
Herman Melville:
The courage to go where one does not want to go.
Sully (2016)
[last lines]
Elizabeth Davis:
[At the NTSB investigation proceedings]
First Officer Skiles, is there anything you’d like to add? Anything… you would have done differently if you… had to do it again?
Jeff Skiles:
Yes. I would’ve done it in July.
Den tysta revolutionen (2018)
Edgar:
A moment of silence is a disagreeable act of political protest.
Theo Lemke:
Whatever!
12 Strong (2018)
Colonel Mulholland:
The most important thing you take into battle, is the reason why.
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
Gust Avrakotos:
There’s a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse… and everybody in the village says, ”how wonderful. The boy got a horse” And the Zen master says, ”we’ll see.” Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, ”How terrible.” And the Zen master says, ”We’ll see.” Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight… except the boy can’t cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, ”How wonderful.”
Charlie Wilson:
Now the Zen master says, ”We’ll see.”
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Commisar Danilov:
I’ve been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there’d be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there’s always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don’t have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.