For me, a few come to mind:
- “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”
It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.
- “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”
It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.
There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.
“My sister is the opposite of paranoid. She has the delusion that people actually like her.” Harry Block (Woody Allen) in the 187 film “Deconstructing Harry”
“My friends are so happy they’re killing themselves.” Steve McKenna (Jan-Michael Vincent) in the 1972 film “The Mechanic”
No one can change everything but everyone can change something.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
“The purpose of discipline is to live more fully, not less”
“Those who never try, never find out”
In a similar line, “the world belongs to the brave”
“I’m a leaf in the wind.”
Said by Wash the pilot in the movie Serenity. I tend to whisper that to myself when things aren’t going my way and I need a reminder to just go with the flow.
“Some people deserve to be punished.” - Amos Burton (actor Wes Chatham), The Expanse season 2, in reference to an opportunist who had been enriching himself during a humanitarian crisis; comparing him to pimps that force kids and vulnerable people into prostitution.
Full quote
(after beating up an uncooperative person and threatening him at gunpoint, then getting confronted about it)
I didn’t kill him. Not yet. He’s a bully, and where I come from, bullies take desperate young girls like your daughter and force them into prostitution. And when they finally get knocked up, they peddle them to johns who get off on that. After they have the kid, they push them right back out on the streets even before they have a chance to heal. And those kids, they use them, too. Some people deserve to be punished.
The Expanse has so many memorable quotes.
- “You’re not that guy. I am that GUY.”
- Amos - “What is it you’re think you’re doing?” “WHATEVER I GOD DAMN LIKE.”
- Avaserala answering to the council - “You look like shit.” “You look amazing.”
- Avaserala and Amos on Luna - “I’m just gonna take my pet nuke for a walk.”
- Miller on Ceres Station
- “You’re not that guy. I am that GUY.”
