No Country for Old Men

"Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen."

"Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A persons path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning."

"It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?"

"I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that"

"It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."

"If it aint a mess, itll do till the mess gets here."

"Its not about knowin where you are. Its about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybodys. You dont start over. Thats what its about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it."

"I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise itd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late."

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a mans mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were."

"Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable."

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

"People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did."