Book and Movie Quotes
Movie Quotes
Independence Day
Good morning.In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind.
"Mankind"...
That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interest.
Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom--not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win today, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice,
"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!
Today, we celebrate... our Independence Day!
Braveheart
Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom? Alba gu brath!Full Metal Jacket
From now on, until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for! But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever!Flight of the Intruder
This is a daylight raid, gentlemen. Air Force, Marines, Navy, everything we got. They've had three years to get ready for us. The most formidable air defenses in the history of warfare. Our job, the task of the Intruder, is to kill SAM's. Make no mistake about it gentlemen, SAM's are where your ordnance goes. Otherwise those B-52's will be dead meat. We can expect a forest of SAM's and flak you can lay down on. We've got to cut a path through for the Air Force. We'll be going in broad daylight, with nothing to hide behind. We'll be easy targets up there, gentlemen. But they're counting on us. Lean into it!Let's go DOWNTOWN!!
Bogie said himself that dead is dead and life is for the living and you've
got to move on -- and if you don't, it's self-indulgent and does the dead
no good. He said it dishonoured them because if they gave you so little
care for your own life, then they didn't leave you with much.
--Lauren Bacall
Book Quotes
Ghostrider One -- Gerry Carroll
"When you command a unit you wind up having to do every thing since you have to have everything done your way. But when you lead it, you set the objectives and then allow the men to do their jobs as they know how and as they've been trained. All you have to do is step in when things go wrong or look like they're going to go wrong. The trick is in knowing when to step in."
"But when you command, you step in all the time because that's how you think. The men get used to being told what to do and sooner or later will get in some seriously deep shit because either the commander makes a mistake or they're afraid of using their own judgement. Sometimes the leader needs to bite his lip, but the troops need it to be done that way. Any asshole can command-- all you gotta do is have rank on your side and a loud voice."
North SAR -- Gerry Carroll
"...I do not say 'in glory' because there is no glory here. Glory is for the poets and the historians and the movie directors. Glory is a lie that only those who have not been where we have been can believe. Glory is in the paintings of great battles that hang in museums. It is not in the men who are in the paintings.
Flight of the Intruder -- Stephen Coonts
"Three guys," said Jake. He watched the smoke curl up from his cigarette. He looked at Steiger. "So we keep making craters in the runways at Kep. How many times have we done that? Or we bomb a 'suspected truck park' that turns out to be so many acres of forest, or mud flats along a river that someone labeled a 'boat yard.' Just this once wouldn't you like to really hit 'em where it hurts? If we bomb their headquarters, maybe, just maybe, we'll take out their leadership."
"Or die trying."
"So Grafton and Cole get smoked! Won't be the end of the world. But if it happens, remember this: we didn't buy the farm killing dogfaces--we didn't die gutting little girls who live too close to a bombed-out power plant. We died going for the head motherfucker. You can put that on our tombstones."
Final Flight -- Stephen Coonts
"So everyone can have a final moment to polish their soul before they get cremated alive? Nope. We don't need any panic. They'll have to go meet their maker with the tarnish still on. Death's a come as you are deal anyway."
"The gun's jammed," he told Toad. "Pull your harness as tight as you can stand it."
"What the fuck does that mean?"
"It means we're going to ram the bastard."
"Like fucking shit we are. I'll eject first. I'm not--"
"Oh yes you fucking are, Tarkington, you asshole. We're not blowing the canopy off until we've killed this guy. There ain't no other way."
Without Remorse -- Tom Clancy
Oh no, not in their wildest nightmares have they ever met anyone like me.
The name they had given him in Vietnam boiled up from the past.
Snake.
[H]e loved too much, cared too much, invested too much in the things and the people who touched his life. He could not turn away. Though it might save his life, to turn away would inevitably poison it. And so he had to take his chances and see things through.
The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they'd left behind. Probably. ... If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth, then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...
Final Blackout -- L. Ron Hubbard
"When an officer loses his command, that officer is also lost. But when that command remains, no matter what happens to its officer, he has not failed."
The Only Thing To Fear -- David Poyer
Nothing comes from nothing.Imagine a screen. A blank, white, rectangular screen filled with light.
Then on it numbers, black and sere, dancing, grainy, but still clear, stabbing like cold.
1945.
On the screen now, faces. Like ours. Some are ours, but so young.
So faithful, so fearless, so casual. Qur parents, or our grandparents.
They look like us. They were us.
A long time ago, yes. But today was there then, in embryo, in plan--or else causality means nothing.
1945.
The last year of the greatest war in history.
On the screen, flame and ruin, images those who see them will carry to their graves. Buildings fall in the slow silence of the past. The emaciated, tumbled bodies of Dachau. The shadows on the walls of Nagasaki. The beginning of a world won, or lost forever, depending on whose side you'd fought for.
1945.
Some of those we loved then went away.
Their decisions, courage, sacrifice, created the world we live in now.
On the screen the soldiers trudge endlessly forward, forever liberating the world from darkness. The film will crackle, seared by the slow burning of time.
Gradually they will fade from sight, from memory.
This book is dedicated, not to those who died, for they are marked and remembered, but to those who returned, and were never the same again.
One was my father.
Never count the casualties on the day the war ends.
Nothing comes from nothing.
And nothing ever ends.
--Dedication from "The Only Thing To Fear"