That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.
Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.
Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be u...
Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.
How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short...
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Every man has one destiny,
Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, h...
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
— Nunca se aborreça — Don Corleone o havia instruído. — Nunca faça uma ameaça. Argumente com as pessoas.
Измениться или умереть, как-то раз вырвалось у него. В этом смысл жизни. Он просто не смог измениться. Так что вина за случившееся лежала на нем.
В молодости некоторые женщины говорили, что любят меня за мои длинные ресницы. Я не спорил. Потом место ресниц заняло остроумие. Влиятельность и деньги. Талант. Наконец, мудрость. Ладно, я согласен на...
He had been a tough teenager in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery,
The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking.Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going