Characterize Quotes

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for,
and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco

And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)

I know how hard it is in these times to have faith.
But maybe if you could have the faith to start with,
maybe the times would change.
You could change them. Think about it. Try.
And try not to hurt each other.
- the movie Oh, God!

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo

Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )

It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel

My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!

Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death

It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

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