Quotes
Watching TV shows sometimes Quotes sick out to me. They're uplifting, poignant, and special little words of wisdom. These are mostly from TV series and movies. A lot of cool lessons from these words.
"Education is our passport into the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcom X
"Charity is humiliating because it is exercised vertically and from above; solidarity is horizontal and implies mutual respect" - Eduardo Galeano
"Never get on the bad side of small minded people with a little authority" - 'Gifted' (2017)
Joan of Arcadia
S1 E2
"You're an instrument of God. Bound by time and space. Perfect.
... by the way, as an instrument of Me, have some Pride! Do better. Do your best!"
Being Erica
S3 E8
"What does it mean when history repeats itself? It means we failed to learn from it."
A Boy Called Christmas
"Nikolas showed the king that it's not about the presents, though they are wonderful. It's about what's behind them We give what we have to show that we care. And then we all share in joy."
The Good Witch
S5 E5 - "The Tea"
"Sometimes silence is true wisdom's best reply" - Cassie Nightingale
Cupid's Kitchen
"Hard work is never wasted."
Boss & Me
"Don't depend on the whims of others" FL's father
"I have to speak up against unfairness" - ML's Harvard educated Secretary
"Money buys peace" - ML's sister
E22 - "We women are always looking for a capable one who allows us to be stabilized" - Li Shu
"I don't think girls need to make themselves too perfect. They are worthy of being loved all the same." - Feng Teng (ML)
"True Love deserves everyone's good wishes"
Bridgeton
S4E3
"It has been said that surprise is one part privacy and one part speed"
The Double
E22
"A man is known by the company he keeps"
Highway to Heaven
S3 E15
None of us can make it in alone. We're not strong enough.
Wally's sick child friend Stevie. The doctor at the front desk tells Wally, Johnathan and Mark that they can't see Stevie because the rule is that it's only family.
Johnathan: Why?
Dr.: Why what?
Johnathan: Why is that the rule? I mean, people always want to see their friends, they don't always want to see their relatives.
Wally made a wish to save the sick boy.
Wally: It's all true.
Johnathan: Just the way you always knew it was in your heart.
Johnathan tells wally he's been an angel all his life.
Wally expires in the back of an ambulance.
The emergency medical worker remarks: "Poor old guy. Just a bum who who wasted his life..."
Commentary:
Did he waste his life? By who's, and by what standards?
Rethink what it means and what it looks like to be an excellent person.
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At the end when it's all revealed that Wally was an angel he visited the kid and left him one of his puppets. Wally's voice comes on during a close up of the puppet. "I wasn't born a bum. Maybe... oh, nevermind. It's easier to say we're all just bums."
Twilight
"Death is peaceful. Easy. Life is harder" - Bella Swan