Purpose quotes

“You can scare a person to death, but if you do it deliberately, that's murder.”
Victor Sen Yung - Jimmy Chan

“Sometimes, I think the basic job that human beings have is just to figure out what the hell is going on.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“Good exists in order to be fucked up by evil. The very existence of good enables evil to flourish. Therefore, God is bad.”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“What I'm fighting for is to prove I'm a better man than the others. There's many a man worse than me, and some better. But I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters is justice. And that's why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved.”
Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“Pretend yer didn't do it on purpose.”

Donald Crisp - Battling Burrows

“I don't care about the money. I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard.”
Michael Douglas - Nicholas Van Orton

“I wonder, do we all know where we belong? And if we do, in our hearts, why do we so often do nothing about it? There must be more to this life, a purpose for us all, a place to belong.”
Angelina Jolie - Sarah Jordan

“- Lt. Joe Rossi: Don't get me wrong, Ensign, I'm not objecting to their youth. I'm all for it.
- Ensign Wright: They've all been trained for this job.”

Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi
Kane Richmond - Ensign Wright

“For years I've thought about killing myself. It's the only thing that kept me going.”
Robin Williams - Dale Putley

“- Dr. McCoy: Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby. I hope we got this one off to a good start.
- James T. Kirk: I hope so, too. I think we gave it the ability to create its own sense of purpose out of our own human weaknesses, and the drive that compels us to overcome them.”
DeForest Kelley - Dr. McCoy
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Stephen Collins - Decker

“As you know, I have dedicated my life to helping those who are less fortunate than myself... that's everyone. And now, I need you to help me.”

Madeline Kahn - Gussie Mausheimer

“Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? Didn't you ever hear of a campaign promise?”

Claudette Colbert - Gerry Jeffers

“Sylvia Pincus. Big fat Jewish broad, had a little tiny husband. She chopped him up with an ax and mailed his pieces all over the country. I don't know what she was tryin' to prove.”
Chazz Palminteri - Cheech

“- Mitch Leary: There's no cause left worth fighting for, Frank. All we have is the game. I'm on offense, you're on defense.
- Frank Horrigan: Well, when do we start playing the game?
- Mitch Leary: The clock's ticking, Frank.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“Truth, like football, receive many kicks before reaching goal.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“- Titans: Crush Zeus! Freeze Zeus! Melt Zeus! And blow him away! Zeus! Zeus! Zeus! Zeus!
- Hades: Uh, guys? Olympus would be that way.”

Corey Burton - Titans
James Woods - Hades

“It's sad, isn't it, how people always end up betraying each other? And for what?”
Parker Posey - Margaret Burre

“Playfulness ceases to have a serious purpose when it takes itself too seriously.”
Lorraine Bracco - Delores Del Ruby

“I was born to murder the world.”
Daniel von Bargen - Nix

“Wishing never got anybody anyplace.”

Clark Gable - Jack Thornton

“- Juliana: You have done well, my son. The North Village has fallen. We have won.
- Nekron: I want to thank you, Mother.
- Juliana: The Great Plain is all that stands between ourselves and Fire Keep.
- Nekron: That is a long distance.
- Juliana: A distance we may not have to travel. I am sending our envoys to Jarol with our new demands.”
Eileen O'Neill - Juliana
Sean Hannon - Nekron

“- Gus Sands: If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.
- Roy Hobbs: To hit away.”
Darren McGavin - Gus Sands
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity.”

Mary Wickes - Miss Preen

“Rocky, your mom sometimes does the wrong things, but for the right reasons.”
Sam Elliott - Gar

“We have buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down.”
Henry Wilcoxon - Vicar