TV Quotes

Samir Mehran - Even a giant can be toppled by a single stone.

Michael - (to George Michael) I'm gonna give you a promotion. Welcome aboard, Mr. Manager. George Michael: Wow! I'm Mr. Manager!

Group - Three miles up, three miles down! Currahee!

Ronald Spiers - Well, maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest son of a bitch in the whole Roman Legion.

Lt. Winters - I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" Grandpa said "No... but I served in a company of heroes."

Norman - I think one of us has a problem, and I'm tired of the assumption being that it's me.

Gustav Fring - I hide in plain sight, same as you.

Gustav Fring - You are a wealthy man now. One must learn to be rich. To be poor, anyone can manage.

Saul Goodman - I can't afford to butter the wrong bread here.

Gale - To my other favorite W.W. It's an honour working with you.

Walter White - No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!

Hank - Tagging trees is a lot better than chasing monsters.

Fisk - But emotion... can turn the most circumspect of men careless.

Olivia Godfrey - Unfortunately, if you've done your job adequately, in spite of yourself, you find you're not needed at all.

Letha Godfrey - We're Godfrey's and what we say happened, happened.

Raymond Tusk - Decisions based on emotion aren't decisions, at all. They're instincts. Which can be of value. The rational and the irrational complement each other. Individually they're far less powerful.

Francis Underwood - Moments like this require someone like me. Someone who will act. Who will do what no one else has the courage to do. Someone who will do the unpleasant thing. The necessary thing.

Francis Underwood - Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power. In this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years.

Francis Underwood - Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn't see the difference.

Francis Underwood - There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that's only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.

Francis Underwood - You see, Freddy believes that if a fridge falls off a minivan, you better swerve out of its way. I believe it's the fridge's job to swerve out of mine.

Francis Underwood - After all, we are nothing more or less than what we choose to reveal. What I am to Claire is not what I am to Zoe, just as Zoe is not to me what she is to her father.

Francis Underwood - There's no better way to over power a trickle of doubt then with a flood of naked truth.

Doug Stamper - But the most important count I do has nothing to do with work. It's the number of days since April 4, 1999. As of this morning, that's 5,185. The bigger that number gets, the more it frightens me, because I know all it takes is one drink to go back to zero. Most people see fear as a weakness. It can be. Sometimes for my job, I have to put fear in other people. I know that's not right. But if I'm honest, like the fourth step asks us to be, I have to be ruthless, because failure is not an option. The same goes for my sobriety. I have to be ruthless with myself. I have to use my fear. It makes me stronger. Like everyone in this room, I can't control who I am. But I can control the zero. Fuck the zero.

Francis Underwood - How quickly poor grades are forgotten in the shadow of power and wealth.

Francis Underwood - Kindness isn't kindness if you expect a reward.

Francis Underwood - Rebellion on all fronts Claire, Zoe, Russo.

Francis Underwood - She knows the right questions to ask. I want to make sure she doesn't get the right answers.

Francis Underwood - If we're lucky, it'll be anthrax and I won't live long enough to see the bill fail.

Francis - If we never did anything we shouldn't do, we'd never feel good about doing the things we should.

Claire - He made the world a better place, but sometimes that comes at a price.

Francis Underwood - Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.

Dan - I'll let you know when I give a fuck about your respect.

Francis Underwood - This hurts us both. Its not my wound to suture. Claire must be the surgeon. Only she can stop the bleeding.

Francis Underwood - The road to power is paved with hypocrisy and casualties. Never regret.

Freddy - I ain't over for looking back. Eyes ahead.

Francis Underwood - I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.

Remy - I care more about you more than I should. But I'm getting tired of having to say it.

Francis Underwood - I've managed to isolate the president from everyone, including myself.

Francis Underwood - If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table.

Janine - My entire career, I have always chosen the tough stories. I have been fearless. But you know what? I'm really fucking scared this time. He's got power, he's got a lot to lose, and right now he is winning.

Francis Underwood - A flat-line will send a louder message than life support.

Dr. Cal Lightman - The absence of emotion is just as important as the presence of emotion.

Gillian - You can say something that is untrue and still not be lying. If you don't know it's a lie.

Fernando Vera - People walk around, act like they know what hate means. Nah, no one does, until you hate yourself. I mean truly hate yourself. That's power.

Don Moss - I'll float you some money. For professional development. Call it a loan. But do not pay me back. And you'll stay here and commute until you can save for an apartment.

Isaac Vera - Told you you'd get her back, bro. You just didn't realize She was with you the whole time.

Elliot - Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask?

Leon - I'll be rooting for you, cuz. Always.

Alan Eppes - I think that people like that, like this woman, they're just looking for something, they're looking for answers, you know, maybe even some of the answers that you are, but just by, uh, different means... It's just that, um, not everyone has the emotional and intellectual resource to search for God in a super collider. People look for answers in what's available to them, and when they're particularly desperate, they larch on to the closest answer that's available. I mean, it may make them wrong but not necessarily evil.

Neal - It's how you know you really got a home. When you leave it there's this feeling you can't shake. You just miss it.

Ron Swanson - Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat, and cats are pointless.

Ron Swanson - Capitalism is what makes America great, and England ok, and France terrible.

Ron Swanson - There is only one thing I hate more than lying. Skim milk. Which is water that is lying about being milk.

Ron Swanson - The reception will be held in each of our individual houses, alone.

Ron Swanson - That's what you do when you care about someone. You support 'em. Win, lose, or draw.

Ron Swanson - Food is for eating, places are for being. End of discussion.

Ron Swanson - I believe luck is a concept invented by the weak to explain their failures.

Michael - The things we *should* say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami... So now, plainly, simply, I want to say that I love you both. Very much. And I want you to promise me, that you are going to tell my child... that you are going to tell my child how much they're loved, every day, and remind them how lucky they are to be free. Because we are. We are free now. Finally! We're free.

Michael - Just have a little faith.

Lincoln - Have you seen the blueprints?

Michael - Better than that, I've got them on me.

Lincoln - A little. You know, I had made my peace with what was coming, then you show up and give me the one thing a man in my situation shouldn't have - hope. Now that's going to be taken away...Just have a little faith.

Lincoln - Go easy, Michael. You didn't even know him.

Michael - And that makes it ok?

Lincoln - That's now how she raised us. A man's down, you give him your hand.

Michael - Why are you so cynical?

Lincoln - Michael, I think there's cynicism and there's realism.

Michael - And there's optimism, hope, faith.

Henry Spencer - You know what cheating is? It's the easier way to win.

Carlton Lassiter - Unlike everyone else around here, I'm not fooled by the fact that you wear grown-up clothes have mastered the rudimentary levels of communication and, somehow, manage to feed yourselves. I see you for what you are: Children. So do me a favor and let the grown-ups do their work.

Capheus - Who can say if it is we who make the choice, or the choice that makes us?

Riley - It's not the drugs that make a drug addict, it's the need to escape reality.

Capheus - That day, I learned life and death are always so mixed up together, in the same way some beginnings are endings, and some endings become beginnings.

Hernando - In the end, we will all be judged by the courage of our hearts.

Lito - Lying is easy. It's what I do.

Wolfgang - Fighting is easy. Fighting is what I do.

Cassie - You can put any face behind a mask, but be careful.

Jal - Why?

Cassie - Because someone else might be pretending.

Taco - Girls are like kickers you can never have enough.

Andy - I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days...before you've actually left them.

Pam Halpert - It would just make my heart soar if someone out there saw this, and she said to herself, be strong, trust yourself, love yourself, conquer your fears, just go after what you want. And act fast, because life just isn't that long.

Creed - It all seems so very arbitrary. I applied for a job at this company because they were hiring. I took a desk at the back because it was empty. But no matter how you get there or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

Jan - There's always a million ways to not do something.

Michael - I wanna be married and have 100 kids so I can have 100 friends. And no one can say no to being my friend.

Jim Halpert - You just had a rebound.

Michael Scott - I had a rebound.

Jim Halpert - Yeah. Which, don't get me wrong, can be a really fun distraction. But, when it's over, you're left thinking about the girl you really like, the one that broke your heart.

Vikram - Confidence... It's the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool.

Michael Scott - I miss the old Dunder Mifflin. Too much change is not a good thing. Ask the climate.

Pam - You've been watering down the soap?

Dwight - Why do you even need soap? Are you that bad at going to the bathroom?

Dwight Schrute - If there's anything I hate more than art, it's crime.

Jim - Not "enough" for me? You're everything to me.

Dwight Schrute - What did I do? I did my job. I slashed benefits to the bone; I saved this company money. Was I too harsh? Maybe. I don't believe in coddling people. In the wild, there is no Health Care. In the wild, Health Care is: ow, I hurt my leg; I can't run; a lion eats me, and I'm dead. Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead.

Michael Scott - The Dundee award, for longest engagement, goes to Pam Beesly, Pam everybody!

Michael Scott - Jim and I are great friends. We hang out all the time. Mostly at work.

Zach Stone - This car had a tuneup recently. It is now equipped with...horsepower.

Zach Stone - She completely low balled everything. Two dozen roses? Boom! Make that a dozen dozen roses.