Scott Elliott dot info

If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Police: Are you classified as human?
Korben Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Mr. Newberry: What have you been doing with your life?
Marty: Uh... professional killer.
Mr. Newberry: Oh! Good for you, it's a... growth industry.

I reject your reality and choose to substitute it with my own.

We don't torture. We freedom tickle.

Tess: We need to get Rusty a girl.
Rusty: There's a women's prison down the road?

Bartender: [over the noise in the background] How's the game going?
Rusty: Longest hour of my life.
Bartender: [not hearing him] What?
Rusty: I'm running away with your wife.
Bartender: Great!

Danny: Ten oughta do it, don't you think? You think we need one more? You think we need one more. All right, we'll get one more.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Extremists run this country because moderates have shit to do.

Homer Simpson: Funny Story Kent, (grabs microphone) IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!! GOD LOVES YOU!! HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU!!

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where is began,
Now far ahead the road is gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who where certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Lisa Simpson: Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, then sold off piece by piece.

Superintendant Chamers: Religion has no place in public schools the way facts have no place in organized religion.

Principal Skinner: Mr. Burns, what is the secret to your success?
Mr. Burns: Family, religion, friends... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Kang [running for President]: Abortions for all! [crowd boos]
Very well, Abortions for none! [crowd boos]
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for the others! [crowd cheers]

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'What ride!'.

Olive: Grandpa, am I pretty?
Grandpa: You are the most beautiful girl in the world.
Olive: You're just saying that.
Grandpa: No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality.

Dwayne: [on notepad] don't kill yourself tonight
Frank: Not on your watch.
Dwayne: [on notepad] welcome to hell
Frank: Oh... thanks. That means a lot coming from you...

Richard: Everyone, just... pretend to be normal.

Jean Luc Picard: Villians who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.

Samantha: If two people love each other, but they just can't seem to get it together, when do you get to that point of enough is enough?
Jerry: Never.

Leroy: A lot of people are under the impression that you get to choose who you love.

We often miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish–as long as your feet keep moving.

When passing by a mirror, notice the frame.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Sharon Bridger: We're the CIA, something always goes wrong.

General Devereaux: The CIA didn't know the Berlin Wall was coming down until bricks started hitting them in the head.

Anthony Hubbard: Come on General, you've lost men, I've lost men, but you - you, you *can't* do this! What, what if they don't even want the sheik, have you considered that? What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we're doing? And put soldiers on the street and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution just a little bit? Because if we torture him, General, we do that and everything we have fought, and bled, and died for is over. And they've won. They've already won!

Carter Webb: There's a big fucking world out there. It's messy, and it's chaotic, and it's never, it's never ever the thing you'd expect.

Trevor McKenney: I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Trevor McKenney: [to Mr. Simonet] What did you ever do to change the world?

Christopher McCandless: I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.

Mr. Edward Magorium: Your life is an occasion, rise to it.

Gust Avrakotos: A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, 'Oh how wonderful.' But a Zen master who lives in the village says, 'We shall see.' The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, 'Oh how awful.' The Zen master says, 'We shall see.' The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, 'Oh, how wonderful.' The Zen master says, 'We shall see.'

Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.

Mac MacGuff: The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Juno MacGuff: I could so go for like a huge cookie right now, with like, a lamb kabob simultaneously.

Mac MacGuff: Did you see that coming?
Bren: Yeah... but I was hoping she was expelled, or into hard drugs.
Mac MacGuff: Or DWI... anything but this.

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, life goes on.

Let it be, let it be. There will come an answer, let it be.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

When it rains or shines, it's just a state of mind.

Hello, hello. I don't know why you say good-bye, I say hello.

Living is easy with eyes closed.