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By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you man and knife!

We are the shadows and the smoke, we rise. We are the ghosts that hide in the night.

Sandra: "What are your names?"
Lee Christmas: "[points to himself] Buda..."
Lee Christmas: "[points to Barney] ...Pest"
Sandra: "Follow me, please."
Barney Ross: "Buda and Pest? Nice."

Hale Caesar: "What happened to you?"
Barney Ross: "I got my ass kicked."

I promised myself, I'm gonna die for something that counts.

I once knew a man called Tool
To me, was the epitome of cool
He was good with a knife
Bad with a wife
But to think he could beat me
Dreaming he'd defeat me
Cool Tool
You gotta be a fool

Yin Yang: "I need a raise."
Barney Ross: "Say what?"
Yin Yang: "I want it for my son."
Lee Christmas: "Since when did Yin Yang get a family?"
Yin Yang: "You don't ask, I don't tell."

You know, the enemy's always been terrified of noise, especially shotguns. With this big boy spitting out 250 rounds a minute, you tell me who's tolerating that. Absolutely zero.

Tool: "I got a great idea. Why don't you let me doodle, like, a Charlotte's web on your head? On the top of your head. You know, something different, something exciting. 'Cause you got one of them perfectly shaped domed, muscular heads. I could put a web on the top of the head. Maybe a pregnant Charlotte coming out of your ear, peeking around, making sure them bugs don't come inside. Her long legs dangling down your neck. Yeah. Sexy, right?"
Barney Ross: "Very sexy. He looks thrilled."

Unlike people like her father, you, the Agency, you see life through a freaking keyhole because you let emotions cloud your judgment! Emotions are the cancer of the intellect!

Barney Ross: "What's wrong with this picture?"
Lee Christmas: "Everything."

You remember that time we was up in Bosnia? We took down them Serb bad boys? All our guys were gettin' chopped up all around us and there was blood everywhere. I never though I was gonna make it out of there and I know you didn't and you didn't either. Kinda feelin' like... dead too, ya know? My heads all very, very black place. Didn't believe in shit. Just goddamn Dracula black. I remember I got this bottle of this local shit they have over there. That slivovitz... I think that's what it was called. And I ain't feelin' no pain now... and I come up on this, uh... I come up on this overland bridge, and I see this... I see this... I see this woman standing there, ya know? And she's, uh... I stepped out and she saw me, and she's just lookin' right... right in my eyes. And I was lookin' right in her eyes, and I knew what she was gonna do. She looked at me, and I knew she was gonna jump. You know what I did, man? I just turned around I kept walkin'... until I heard that splash and she was gone. After... after taking all them lives, she was one that I could have saved, but I didn't, and... what I realized later on was if I'd have saved that woman, I might have saved what was left of my soul, ya know?

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

Have a good life… What's left of it.

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.