“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune but omitted and the voyage of their lives is bound in shallows and miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat and we must take the current when it serves or lose the ventures before us.” ~Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 3 (as encountered in OTH S1E1)
“Look, son, there’s no shame in being afraid. Hell, we’re all afraid. What you gotta do is figure out what you’re afraid of, because when you put a face on it, you can beat it. Better yet, you can use it.” ~Coach Durham (OTH S1E2)
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. ~John Steinbeck (OTH S1E5)
“Perhaps we give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return.” ~ T.H. White (OTH S2E2)
“See Charlie, the thing about kids, is that, um, you can’t make them into what you want. You can teach them values, character, and a little common sense, but then you have to let go. You have to let them become the man or woman that they’re intended to be.” ~Alan Eppes (Numb3rs S2E5)
“…Well, as you all know, there are four fundamental forces in physics: electromagnetism, strong nuclear interaction, weak nuclear interaction, and gravity… We’ve been talking here about the forces that bind the universe. But what binds humans? Love. Powerful in small spaces, yet with profound effect on distance. Love defies time, outliving both its source and its object. Love is faster than light, for light requires time in order to travel through space, but love reaches its object instantaneously. Love journeys forever, into infinity, and its here binding together two lives.” ~Professor Lawrence Fleinhardt (Numb3rs S6E16)
“Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” ~Oliver Wendon Holmes (OTH S2E7)
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truer.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne (OTH S2E10)
“The courage of life is a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures. And that is the basis of all morality.” ~ John F. Kennedy (OTH S2E13)
“Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy (OTH S2E15)
“You can’t get it all back at once, man. Take it slow. Give it some time. Pretty soon, you’ll be back and better than ever.” ~Tony Battle (OTH S3E1)
“Live each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.” ~ Henry David Thoreau (OTH S3E2)
“Faith is believing where there’s nothing else you can do.” ~ Karen Roe (OTH S3E3)
“…So look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (OTH S3E3)
“Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it is yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that is will be worth remembering.” ~Ida Scott Taylor (OTH S3E10)
“Regret makes you old and bitterness poisons the people around you.” ~Karen Roe (OTH S3E14)
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow. When we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.” ~George Elliot (OTHS3E19)
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid, confused, without a road map. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course, when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back. But once in a while, people push on to something better, something found just beyond the pain of going it alone and just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in or to give someone a second chance. Something beyond the quiet persistence of a dream, because it’s only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are and it’s only when you’re tested that you discover who you can be. The person you want to be does exist, somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith and belief and beyond the fear of what lies ahead.” Voiceover (OTH S4E2)
“When life comes rushing at you from out of the darkness, who will you choose to face it with? Will it be someone you trust? Will they be wise? And will their love for you help them to guide you to the light? Or will they lose their way in the darkness? Will they make noble choices? Or will that person be someone untested, someone new? Life comes rushing at you from out of the darkness. Where it does, is there someone in your life you can count on? Someone who will watch over you when you stumble and fall and in that moment, give you the strength to face your fears alone.” Voiceover (OTh S4E6)
“The rest of your life is a long time and whether you know it or not, it’s being shaped right now. You can choose to blame your circumstances of fate or bad luck or bad choices, or you can fight back… Things aren’t always going to be fair in the real world. That’s just the way it is. But for the most part, you get what you give. Let me ask you all a question: What’s worse, not getting everything you wished for…or getting it, but finding out it’s not enough? The rest of your life is being shaped right now. With the dreams you chase, the choices you make and the person you decide to be.” ~Haley James Scott (OTH S5E2)
“You know, son, there’s gonna be a lot of times in your life when you’re afraid. Being afraid is okay, but if you don’t work through that fear, you might miss out on some pretty great things.” ~Nathan Scott (OTH S5E2)
“Sometimes people write what they can’t say.” ~Haley James Scott (OTH S5E18)
“You know the best thing about a paper jam? it forces you to open up the machine to figure out what went wrong in the first place.” ~Julian Baker (OTH S6E9)
“So what’s it about then? –Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I’m not a writer but let me take a shot at this. It’s that we found a story worth telling. We got the script just right. We got the crew just right, we got the perfect cast, and we were oh so close to being able to make something that would actually affect somebody–someone we’ve never met, but for two hours we can have a dialogue with that person, speak to them and maybe, I mean, just maybe illuminate a small part of their world by telling a story in ours. here’s the part you’re missing. Sometimes the beauty is in the attempt. We took a shot. We gave it everything we could and we did it well. Just didn’t work out. Now, when that happens, you have two options. You could sit in a public park like a bunch of homos, pouting and drinking cheap beer, or…you can celebrate the attempt.” ~Adam Reese (OTH S6E18)
“Sometimes happiness doesn’t come from money or fame or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family and from the quiet nobility of leading a good life.” ~Peyton Sawyer Scott (OTH S6E24)