The best Quotes from 1917

I hoped today might be a good day. Hope is a dangerous thing.

There is only one way this war ends. Last man standing.

Schofield: "If we're not clever about this, no one will get to your brother."
Blake: "I will."

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope...

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Please don't ask me to have hope. Hope hurts, and I don't want to hurt anymore.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

While there's life there's hope.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.

When do you throw in the tower? Admit that a lost cause is just that? There comes a point when it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up.
That's when the real work begins: to find hope, where there seems to be absolutely none at all.

Hope is kind of like dominos. Once one falls - the rest follow.

In all tears, there's a spark of hope.

Fighting's for grownups, and that's only if you got no other choice.

I do not wish to fight. But cast a stone into the lake, and the ripples will return to you.

Fighting is something the old me would do. That always made things worse.

A fight you can't win becomes an obsession.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.

I've got two rules for every fight. Don't ask for permission, don't ask for forgiveness.

We will live on - either in victory, or in the scars we leave on them!

Don't fight for victory, fight to improve yourself. Victory will come.

There's nothing like a fair fight. It improves both competitors.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

When this war began, I thought we were fighting for peace. But we're just fighting.

Never stop war by taking part in one.

Fighting fair is a good way to die.

Everybody can fight. It's just a choice of whether you should.

Sometimes you have to fight to get your point across.

If you win you live. If you lose you die. If you don’t fight, you can’t win.

In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that's essential for a human being? Emotions used to swirl within me when I fought. Fear, impatience, anger... But now, day after day, after one punch I go home unharmed and wash my gloves.

Miyagi: "Miyagi hate fighting."
Daniel: "Yeah, but you like karate."
Miyagi: "So?"
Daniel: "So, karate's fighting. You train to fight."
Miyagi: "That what you think?"
Daniel: "No."
Miyagi: "Then why train?"
Daniel: "So I won't have to fight."
Miyagi: "Miyagi have hope for you."

The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.

Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.

I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!