Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.