what is the most profound line in cinema?

[K7P5V]

“Once You've Met Someone, You Never Really Forget Them. It Just Takes a While for Your Memories to Return.”

[DrNewGod]

POTUS: "We have to fight the fights we can win."
Louis: "We have to fight the fights that need fighting!"

Michael Douglas and Michael J. Fox in The American President.

[j9ac9k]

POTUS: "We have to fight the fights we can win."
Louis: "We have to fight the fights that need fighting!"

Michael Douglas and Michael J. Fox in The American President.

I prefer, "People drink the sand because they can't tell the difference." from that movie.

[DrNewGod]

Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,”
Gandalf:“So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

[DrNewGod]

I prefer, "People drink the sand because they can't tell the difference." from that movie.

Too cynical for me. No matter how true.

[DrNewGod]

Brian Keith's Teddy Roosevelt in The Wind And The Lion: Other great souls, even when enemies, are the only true luxury those who choose to be great have, as they're usually more admirable than the friends that cluster around the great. (paraphrase)

[Captain Smith]

GODZILLA!

Generate more movies with this character than most I would think.

[K7P5V]

"The world is cursed, but still you find reasons to keep living."

[James Cameron]

"What does it matter? All is grace."
-Diary of a Country Priest

"What have I done, Bones?"
"What you had to do; what you've always done: turned death into a fighting chance to live."
-Star Trek III

"One shot."
-The Deer Hunter

"Is that my daughter in there???"
-Mystic River

"I'm kicking my ass!"
-Liar Liar

"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."
-Excalibur

"You know how I won? I didn't save any for the way back"
-Gattaca

[K7P5V]

"They're all dead. They just don't know it yet."

[Celgress]

"Many that live deserve death, some that die deserve life, can you give it to them, Frodo?"

and

"The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."

LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring

[Huntsman Spider]

"Many that live deserve death, some that die deserve life, can you give it to them, Frodo?"

and

"The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."

LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring

"Then do not be too [or so] quick to deal out death in judgment." Something to that effect. It's pretty much why I believe superheroes in general shouldn't just kill bad guys, especially in light of how "killing for a just cause" can degenerate into "killing just because I'm pissed off at [or even mildly inconvenienced by] whoever I want dead today."

[achilles]

"No matter where you go, there you are." ---Buckaroo Banzai.

[Celgress]

"Then do not be too [or so] quick to deal out death in judgment." Something to that effect. It's pretty much why I believe superheroes in general shouldn't just kill bad guys, especially in light of how "killing for a just cause" can degenerate into "killing just because I'm pissed off at [or even mildly inconvenienced by] whoever I want dead today."

True, as a Buddhist, I approach it from the POV that redemption (including atonement) is always possible no matter how small the chance (if that individual lives). And who am I to decide they should die, especially if they are not an immediate unmanageable threat to others or myself?

[zinderel]

“You mean, all this time…we could have been friends?”

Sums up the movie and the contentious relationship between the two lead actresses in a nutshell…