Branch Rickey: You think God likes baseball, Herb?
Herb Pennock: What -? What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Branch Rickey: It means someday you're gonna meet God, and when he inquires as to why you didn't take the field against Robinson in Philadelphia, and you answer that it's because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply.
Quotes from Harrison Ford movies and TV shows
Burt Shotton: When I took the Cleveland uniform off two years ago I promised the missus I'd never put on another uniform again. So the roses are beautiful and, uh, I sleep better too.
Branch Rickey: Roses and sleep are two wonderful things, Burt. But sleep you can get when you're in your casket, and flowers look great on top of it. But, uh, you don't look like a dead man to me, Burt.
Branch Rickey: It's another opening day, Harold. All future, no past.
Harold Parrott: It's a blank page, sir.
Branch Rickey: Jackie Robinson. A black man in white baseball.
William Jones: Plato believed that every soul has a companion star that returns to after death... if you lived a moral life.
William Jones: Do you love her?
Ellis Jones: Yes, I am.
William Jones: How do you know?
Ellis Jones: Dad, I didn't kn.
William Jones: This is a simple quest, how do you know?
Ellis Jones: Everything is not make sense without her.
President James Marshall: Peace is not just the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.
President James Marshall: I trusted you with my life!
Agent Gibbs: So will the next president!
President James Marshall: Did you hear my speech?
Grace Marshall: Yeah.
President James Marshall: Yeah?
Grace Marshall: You're gonna get yourself re-elected.
President James Marshall: That's what I keep telling them.
President James Marshall: Get off my plane!
Deckard: I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
Rick Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine: they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit it's not my problem.
Rick Deckard: They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession: ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
John Thornton: This is a map of the Yukon. My son was always reading adventure stories, crazy about the news coming out of the Yukon. Wasn't the gold, he didn't care about that, it was the mountains. He spent all day looking at maps and pictures of the mountains, dreaming about was on the other side, places no-one had been, wild places. We could go, you and me, see what's out there. What do you think?
More Clear And Present Danger quotes
Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde: I want that man! You give him to me now, or I'm gonna take him!
Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde: The only one who knows what to say is in the ground. Isn't it enough that we took the time to put him there?
Max Brogan: I've never been invited to a shunning before. What is this? Something you guys brought over with you?
Zahra Baraheri: I didn't bring it, I was born here. I'm the only one in this family who's an actual American.
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