The best Quotes from Pearl Harbor

Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.

Rafe: "You are so beautiful it hurts."
Evelyn: "It's your nose that hurts."
Rafe: "I think it's my heart."

That's what I want to come home to, that's what I want to have to think about and dream about. I wanna know that the best part of my life is still ahead of me.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

I soared above the song birds
And never heard them sing
I lived my life in winter
And then you brought the spring

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29. What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?"-questions? Worried? What about? 38, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and to do it I would feel God's pleasure.

I grew up a Baptist and went to seminary at Methodist school, Duke University, but I also don't worry too much about denominations. I love what John Wesley said - "If our hearts are together, let's not worry about whether our heads are together. If our hearts are together, then let's joins hands." So, I try to do that regardless of denominations.

I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.

I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

Will Traynor: "Will you stay?"
Lou Clark: "For as long as you want me to."

There's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived your life at all.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

I have loved her even when I hated her... only married couples'll understand that one.

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

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