The Counselor (2013)

Westray: Well, I'm perfectly willing to believe you had nothing to do with this but I'm not the party you have to convince.

Counselor: Convince of what, for Christ sake?

Westray: That this is some sort of coincidence. Because they don't really believe in coincidences. They've heard of them. They've just never seen one.

Malkina: The truth has no temperature.

Reiner: Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is that you can do anything to them except bore them.

Reiner: I don't know what Malkina knows. I don't want to know.
Counselor: You don't trust her.
Reiner: Jesus Counselor, she's a woman.
Counselor: Woo!
Reiner: Yeah, well, I don't mean to sound cold, I just mean that where women are concerned, they've got their own agenda. I always liked smart women, but it's an expensive hobby.

Diamond Dealer: To partake of the stone's endless destiny, is that not the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.

Counselor: I want her to have something that she would not be uncomfortable wearing. I don't want to give her a diamond so big she'd be afraid to wear it.

Diamond Dealer: She is probably more courageous than you imagine.

Westray: I'm pretty skeptical about the goodness of the good. I think that if you ransacked the archives of the redeemed you would uncover tales of moral squalor quite beyond the merely appalling. I've pretty much seen it all, Counselor, and it's all shit. I could live in a monastery, scrub the steps, wash the pots, maybe do a little gardening. Why not?

Counselor: You're serious.

Westray: Very.

Counselor: Why don't you?

Westray: In a word, women.

Banker: Where will you go?

Malkina: I think I might like China.

Banker: China, really?... What about cash?

Malkina: ...Diamonds are worth about one point five million an ounce. You can hold twenty million dollars in the palm of your hand. Money itself weighs about three thousand dollars to the ounce, roughly fifty thousand dollars a pound. So the twenty mil in your hand would be over four hundred pounds of paper in hundred-dollar bills - four forty to be exact.

Banker: Can you sell diamonds in China?

Malkina: You can sell diamonds on Mars.

Westray: Have you ever seen a snuff film?

Counselor: No. Have you?

Westray: No. Would you?

Counselor: I would not.

Westray: ...You might want to think about that the next time you do a line.

Malkina: I suspect that we are ill-formed for the path we have chosen. Ill-formed and ill-prepared. We would like to draw a veil over all the blood and terror that have brought us to this place. It is our faintness of heart that would close our eyes to all of that, but in so doing it makes of it our destiny... But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Malkina: I can see you're blushing. OK, we'll change the subject.

Laura: Good.

Malkina: We'll talk about MY sex life.

Laura: You're teasing.

Malkina: Just rattling your cage. What a world.

Laura: You think the world is strange?

Malkina: [expression becomes disdainful] I meant yours.

The Vampire Diaries

"Love brought me to Mystic Falls. Love drove me away. We've all made sacrifices. But our greatest threat is still out there... and he looks just like me."
"There is crazy and there is... well, me."
"That pit is called guild. You feel bad because you broke his heart, and that nagging feeling is your brain waking up to tell you that you've made a horrible yet an reversible mistake."
"We're lucky. How many people die and still get to talk to their best friends? How many best friends can't feel each other?"
"Don't call me, don't write, and whatever you do, don't you damn miss me."
"Won't take the pain away. Yeah, but it will turn off your misery, your fear, your hopelessness."
"The best way to convince her we're normal is to act normal."
"You say you don't believe me and yet you're thinking at the possibility."
"Let's skip the "how" and get to the "why"."
"Your humanity is the one thing that makes you who you are."

Stalker [1979]

"Vezi tu, sa fii calauza implica un soi de chemare."

"In Zona, cu cat drumul e mai lung cu atat riscul e mai mic."

"Sa ocolesti mereu cand totul e asa de aproape!... Aici e risc, acolo-i risc. Ce mama dracu'!"

"Zona-i un sistem foarte complicat... de capcane, si toate sunt mortale. Nu stiu ce se-ntampla aici, in absenta oamenilor, dar, in clipa in care se iveste cineva, totul se pune in miscare. Vechile capcane dispar si apar altele noi. Prin locurile sigure devine imposibil de trecut. Acu' ti-e calea usoara, acu' e fara de speranta de complicata. Asta-i Zona. Pare chiar capricioasa. Dar, asta e ceea ce am facut noi cu propria noastra conditie. S-a intamplat ca oamenii sa se opreasca la jumatatea drumului si s-o ia inapoi. Unii dintre ei au murit chiar la intrare. Dar tot ce se petrece aici, depinde nu de Zona, ci de noi insine! Adica, ea ii lasa sa treaca pe cei buni, si-i ucide pe cei rai? Nu stiu. Eu cred ca-i lasa sa treaca... pe cei care si-au pierdut ultima speranta. Nu buni sau rai, ci oameni distrusi. Dar, chiar si cei complet distrusi, mor daca nu stiu sa se comporte. Dumneata ai avut noroc, tocmai te-a avertizat." 

"Sa facem ca tot ce-am planuit sa devina realitate. Sa-i facem sa creada. Si sa rada de propriile lor pasiuni. Pentru ca tot ce numesc ei "pasiune" e, de fapt, o anume energie emotionala, produsa de interactiunea sufletelor lor cu lumea exterioara. Si, ce-i mai important, sa-i facem sa creada in ei insisi. Sa fie neajutorati ca niste copilasi, pentru ca slabiciunea e o minune, si taria e un nimic. Imediat dupa nastere, omul e fara putere si flexibil, cand moare, e rigid si insensibil. Cand un copac e-n crestere, e fragil si elastic, dar cand e uscat si rigid, el moare. Rigiditatea si taria sunt insotitorii mortii. Elasticitatea si lipsa de putere sunt expresii ale prospetimii vietii. Pentru ca ceea ce s-a rigidizat nu invinge niciodata."

"Iertati-ma, dar am crezut ca nu-i capabil sa ajunga aici. Vedeti, eu... nu stiu niciodata, dinainte, ce fel de oameni iau cu mine. Totul se lamureste abia aici, cand e prea tarziu. Ce e important, e ca sacu' cu izmenele lui e in siguranta. Nu-ti baga nasu-n izmenele cuiva, daca nu-l intelegi. Ce-i de inteles aici? [...] Ceva abisuri psihologice."

"Putin imi pasa mie de blestemata de omenire. Intreaga ta omenire. Pe mine, ma intereseaza un singur om... eu insumi. Fie ca sunt valoros sau sunt doar un cacat ca ceilalti. Si daca descoperi ca, in realitate, esti..."

"Adevarul s-a nascut din contradictie, lua-l-ar dracu'!"

"Ai adus aici multi oameni? Nu atat de multi pe cat mi-ar fi placut. Nu asta conteaza. De ce au venit ei aici? Ce vroiau? Fericirea, cred. Da, dar ce soi de fericire? Oamenilor nu le place sa vorbeasca despre sentimentele lor launtrice. Si nu e nici treaba dumitale, nici a mea. In orice caz, tu ai fost norocos. Cat despre mine, eu n-am vazut un om fericit, in viata mea. Nici eu. Ei se intorc din camera, eu ii conduc inapoi, si nu ne mai revedem niciodata. Dorintele nu devin realitate imediat. Ti-ai dorit vreodata sa folosesti aceasta camera tu insuti? Eu sunt multumit asa cum sunt."

"Un om scrie pentru ca e chinuit, pentru ca are indoieli. El trebuie sa-si dovedeasca continuu, lui si altora, ca valoreaza ceva. Pai, trebuie sa spun ca noi existam ca sa... Pastreaza-ti complexele pentru tine."

"Omenirea exista ca sa creeze... opere de arta. Spre deosebire de alte activitati umane, asta nu e egoista. Iluzii minunate! Imagini ale adevarului absolut! Despre ce lipsa de egoism vorbesti? Oamenii inca mor de foame. Ai cazut din Luna?"

"Si mai sunt si considerati aristocratia noastra intelectuala! Nu esti, nici macar, capabil sa gandesti in abstractii. Te pregatesti sa ma-nveti despre semnificatia vietii? Si cum sa gandesc? N-are rost. Oi fi tu profesor, dar esti unu' ignorant."

"Vorbeati despre... seminificatia vietii... noastre... despre lipsa de egoism a artei... Sa luam muzica, de exemplu. Ea e conectata la realitate, mai putin decat orice altceva, ori, daca e conectata, cat de putin, asta se face mecanic, nu prin idei, doar un sunet deviat, rupt de... orice asocieri.

Immortals (2011)

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." [Socrates]

"When this world was still young, long before man or beast roamed these lands, there was a war in the heavens. Immortals, once thoughts incapable of death, discovered they had the power to kill one another. Lost in this war was a weapon of unimaginable power, the Epirus bow. The victors declared themselves Gods, while the vanquished were renamed Titans and forever imprisoned within the bowels of Mount Tartarus. Eons passed, mankind flourished and the great war receded from memory. But the evil that once was has reemerged."

"Old Man: Wheel that ax well, Theseus. Maybe someday we'll see you use the same determination to find a wife.
Theseus: You conspiring with my mother now?
Old Man: She worries about you.
Theseus: There's no need to worry about me.
Old Man: You know, being a warrior is not just being able to strike your opponent down with a sword. It's finding good reason to draw your sword in the first place.
Theseus: I draw my sword to protect those that I love.
Old Man: What about the others?
Theseus: The others turned their backs on me.
Old Man: The weak, the defenseless? Who's going to protect them?
Theseus: Careful, too much worry will make you an old man."

Theseus: Mother, your Gods are children's stories and my spear is not. And you know mother, it takes more than lighting candles to make babies. Besides, your priest wears a ridiculous hat.

Theseus: You are mad.
Old Man: No. Just tired. It's not living as such that's important, Theseus. It's living rightly.

Zeus: Yet as one of them, never as a God, only as his friend.
Athena: Why him?
Zeus: He does not fear danger, nor pain, defeat or ridicule. He fears only the failure to defend that which he holds so dear. His loved ones. If there is one human who could lead them against Hyperion, it would be Theseus. But it must be his choice.

King Hyperion: You are a defector, I understand.
Lysander: Yes, my king.
King Hyperion: I am not your king.
Lysander: But I wish you to be.
King Hyperion: But you are a traitor by definition, are you not? What would I want with a traitor in my midst?

King Hyperion: Do you have any children?
Lysander: Not yet.
King Hyperion: A man's seed could be his most brutal weapon for generations. Your people will stare into the eyes of their sons and they will see my likeness. I will be remembered in every glance, every smile, ever tear that is shed for eternity. But before your baptism, understand that you are not drawn here to my flame on instinct.
King Hyperion: You ran here because you are a coward. And the world does not need any more cowards. So I shall do this world a great favor, mark you as one of us.
King Hyperion: Enrich you with the ability to populate the earth. Traitor, although you will not hear them, your forefathers weep from their graves with the future of their bloodline ends with you here tonight.

Zeus: That maybe. But the Hellenic's have yet to adapt, and until they do...
Ares: Isn't it time to intervene, Zeus? How can you stomach baring witness to such atrocity whilst doing nothing?
Zeus: I obey the law. No God shall interfere in the affairs of man, unless the Titans are released. If we are to expect mankind to have faith in us, then we must have faith in them. We must allow them to use their own free will.
Heracles: And what if they unearth the bow?
Zeus: If any of you come to the aid of man or otherwise influence the affairs of mankind as a God, the punishment will be death.

Stavros: Who are they?
Dareios: The virgin oracles. The Heraclians must have found their temple. You don't know of them?
Stavros: I don't, but I wouldn't mind knowing 'em all for a night.

Phaedra: When cloudless skies thunder, stand fast (brave?).

Phaedra: Some people consider my visions to be a gift.
Theseus: A gift? How could it be considered a gift when you can see the future but you don't have the power to change it?

Theseus: Why would you do such a thing? You risked your life to save a complete stranger.
Phaedra: Only a faithless man would ask such a question.
Theseus: My mother was a woman of faith and her Gods were absent when she needed them most. As was I.
Phaedra: So we both mourn. You for what has past and...and I for what is to come.

Phaedra: What I see is only a glimmer of what may come to pass. Your actions and desire shape what lies ahead.

Phaedra: That future is not set.

Theseus: She was right. For all those years I doubted her. Doubted their existence.
Phaedra: Your mother's death was not in vain, Theseus. It was fate that brought you back for the bow. And in your hands, Theseus, it will bring Hellenic victory.

Phaedra: You were right, Theseus. My visions are a curse. I want to see the world through my own eyes, filled with my own heart and touch with my own flesh.

Lysander: Twenty five feet of marble stone, weighing over twelve tons. It was designed to be impenetrable, your majesty.
King Hyperion: Have you ever known a gate designed to be anything but?

Athena: In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Are we at war, father?

King Hyperion: Embrace me, Theseus. They will never give you a seat at their table, but you could sit at the head of mine. Long after this war is over, my mark will be left on this world forever. The sun will never set on my blood, Theseus. This is what I offer you. Immortality.
Theseus: Deeds are eternal, not the flesh.

Theseus: I don't know if I can do what Zeus asks of me.
Phaedra: By doubting one comes the truth, Theseus. The Gods chose well.

Theseus: Listen to me! Listen!
Soldier: Who are you to tell us what to do?
Theseus: I'm nobody to tell you what to do! I am Theseus, a common man! One of you! I share your blood and I share your fear, but to run now would offer our souls and the souls of our children to a terrible darkness!
Theseus: We must stand and fight! Their numbers count for nothing! Stand your ground!
Theseus: Stand your ground! Show them that we are not weak. Because they scar their faces and scar their bodies does not mean they're braver or stronger than we are! They are cowards! They hide behind their masks. They are human and bleed like you and I!
Theseus: Stand your ground! Fight for honor! Fight for the man beside you! Fight for the mothers who bore you! Fight for your children! Fight for your future! Fight so that your name survives! Fight for immortality!
Theseus: Let us write history in Heraclian blood!

Athena: Father! Don't forsake mankind.

Old Man: All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Once a faithless man, Theseus gave his life to save mankind and earned a placed amongst the Gods. They rewarded his bravery with a gift, a son, Acamas.

Old Man: I knew your father. He was a very brave man. Soon it will be your time.
Acamas: My time for what?
Old Man: The fight against evil never ends, Acamas. War is coming to the heavens and your father will be there, fighting for your future.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) [The Movie]

Jack Twist: I wish I knew how to quit you.

Lureen Newsome: Do you think I'm going too fast? Maybe I should put on the brakes?

Jack Twist: Fast or slow, I like the direction you're going.

Ennis Del Mar: We can get together... once in a while, way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, but...

Jack Twist: Once in a while? Every four fuckin' years?

Ennis Del Mar: If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.

Jack Twist: For how long?

Ennis Del Mar: For as long as we can ride it. There ain't no reins on this one.

Ennis Del Mar: I'm gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin' Twist, an' I ain't foolin'. What I don't know - all them things that I don't know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I ain't jokin'.

Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I'll say it just once!

Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!

Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.

Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'... I'm nowhere... Get the fuck off me! I can't stand being like this no more, Jack.

Cassie Cartwright: [on the verge of tears] I don't get you, Ennis del Mar.

Ennis del Mar: I'm sorry.

[he pauses]

Ennis del Mar: Was probably no fun anyway, was I?

Cassie Cartwright: [crying] Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun!

Jack Twist: There ain't never enough time, never enough...

Jack Twist: Tell you what... truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it...

Ennis Del Mar: Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead.

Jack Twist: You know what, friend? This is a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. You used to come down so easy, now it's like seein' the Pope.

Eat Pray Love [The Movie]

"The only thing more impossible than staying, was leaving.

"It's unnerving when a total stranger sees you more clearly than you see yourself."

They are both in bed, talking. She touches him, he says: "Don't you wanna give me the chance to miss you?"

"Did you fall out? I don't know how to be here. You wanna know how to be here? Stop constantly waiting for something.

Him: "Hey, if you stay, we'll go out for Indian every night." Her: "You never asked me to stay."

"What if we just acknowledge that we have a screwed up relationship and we stick it out anyway? We accept that we fight a lot… and we hardly have sex anymore… but that we don’t wanna live without each other. And that way we can spend our lives together miserable, but happy not to be apart."

"When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping…tutti."

"But I guess the only difference between you and I is that you are afraid to love again."

"Balance, my darling, balance is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself."

"I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself."

"Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life."

"Dear David, we haven't had any communication in a while and it's give me time I needed to think. Remember when you said we should live with each other and be unhappy so we could be happy? Consider it a testimony to how much I love you that I spent so long pouring myself into that offer trying to make it work. But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augusteum, Rome's first true great emperor, how could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world, as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins? It's one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. It feels like a precious wound like a heartbreak you won't let go of , because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured, the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged, then found a way to build itself back up again, and I was reassured. Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, It's just the world that is, and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city, the Augustus shows that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better that staying together, because we're afraid we'll be destroyed if we don't.:."

"I thank God for fear because for the first time, I'm afraid the person next to me will be the one who wants to leave."

Her: "Did you get my email?" Him: "Yeah. I'm sorry I didn't call sooner." Her: "Why didn't you?" Him: "Cause if I did respond we were still having a conversation. I would still..."Her: "I am sorry. We were... just bad timing." Him: "I just wanted things to be easy. We were good when things were easy." Her: "It's not that I need easy right now, I just can't have so hard." Him: "Well, you sound good, stronger." Her: "So do you." 

"You have to learn to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day. Now, that's a power that you can cultivate. If you want to control your life so bad work on the mind. And that's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Cause if you can't master your thoughts, you're in trouble forever. [I'm trying.] That's the damn problem. Stop trying, surrender. Go out into the garden and just sit there. And still your mind and watch what happens. Why don't you just let it be?"

“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I'm just through with the guilt. So this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans.”

Liz: "It begins when the object of your affection bestows upon you a heady hallucinogenic dose of something you've never even dared to admit you wanted an emoitional speedball of thunderous love and excitement. Soon you start craving that attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When it's withheld, you turn sick, crazy, not to mention resentful of the dealer who ecouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff. 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "Just frustrated, I'm concerned. I don't understand." 
David: "What don't you get?" 
Liz: "What's going on? You don't look me in the eye. You don't finish your..." 
David: "Nobody's asking you to make the bed!" 
Liz: "You don't have sex with me!" 
David: "Sometimes I'm not in the mood!" 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "Goddamn him, and he used to give it to you for free. Next stage finds you skinny, shaking in a corner certain only that you'd sell your soul just to have that one thing more time." 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "Well, then why don't we discuss it? Why don't we sort it? Why don't we act like adults? 
David: "Okay. Can I have a little space? How about that?" 
Liz: "Meanwhile the object of you adoration is now repulsed by you." 
David: "You don't always make me miserable." 
Liz: "There's a comfort." 
David: "I just... Sometimes I need to come home and have a little David time." 
Liz: "He looks at you like someone he's never met before." 
David: "Is that okay?" 
Liz: "Yeah. No, it's fine." 
David: "And not have to, like, you know, justify it." 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "The irony is you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a mess. Unrecognizable even to your own eyes." 

Scene change. Liz and David argue. 

Liz: "You asked me to come here? Here I am." 
David: "And it turned into something else. Didn't it?" 
Liz: "You are such a child." 
David: "Right. I can't take this anymore." 
Liz: "Great. Perfect. That's a great response to a conversation. Goddamn it." 

Scene change. Liz gives her speech. 

Liz: "You have now reached infatuation's final destination. The complete and merciless devaluation of self." 

"In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call “The Physics of the Quest.” A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

Educazione Siberiana (2013)

"Cine vrea prea mult, e nebun."

"Un om nu poate detine mai mult decat inima sa poate iubi."

"O vietate tinuta numai in cusca, moare."

"Dumnezeu ajuta cateodata o parte, si altadata, cealalta parte. Important e sa fii de parte potrivita la timpul potrivit."