1923 Quotes

People think they’re so smart. People ain’t that smart.

Only thing that happens fast at a bank is deposits and robberies.

Only a banker would consider a mortgage a luxury.

One look at you and I had no choice at all.[Elizabeth Strafford: You just said you can’t choose destiny. You chose me.]

My aunt never had children. You saying she got no purpose? She raised me. Raised my father. Nursed my uncle back to life. You, too. No telling how many lives she nursed away from death during the war. I look at my aunt and all I see is purpose. Maybe that’s your purpose, too. Be a mother to those who ain’t got one. A teacher to those who need lessons. We choose our purpose.[to Elizabeth]

Killing a king doesn’t make you a king. It makes you an assassin.[to Banner]

It’s only lives we can’t afford to lose.[to Cara]

It ain’t our fate. You’re gonna need another reason to kiss me.[Alexandra: If death is our fate I will draw my last breath and kiss you with it. I swear to God.]

In this life, there’s no debating which is more important: the wedding or the cattle. It’s always the cattle.[to Elizabeth]

In the country, you survive your surroundings, or try to, anyway. It’s the most a man can muster when he abandons civilization. Cities are the mastery one’s surroundings. Necessities become comforts. In the wild, the availability of water dictates whether you survived the day. In the city, that most precious of resources, becomes an afterthought.[to Banner]

If you wanna give God a good laugh, you tell him what you think your destiny is.[to Elizabeth]

I’m a businessman. The word “decent” doesn’t apply to me.