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No Country for Old Men Quotes
1- “Would you hold still, please, sir?” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
2- “What business is it of yours where I’m from… friendo?” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
3- “This is the best deal you’re going to get. I won’t tell you that you can save yourself, because you can’t.” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
4- “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
5-“They pretend to themselves they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. ” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
6- “Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this.” –Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
7- “Moss walked out onto the prairie behind the motel with one of the motel pillows under his arm and he wrapped the pillow about the muzzle of the gun and fired off three rounds and then stood there in the cold sunlight watching the feathers drift across the gray chaparral, thinking about his life.”-Llewelyn Moss, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
8- “Oh, baby, things happen…” –Llewelyn Moss, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
9- “Well let’s just take it one day at a time”-Llewelyn Moss, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
10- “You think … yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. ”-LIeweyln Moss, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
11- “The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin’ to die to even do this job. But, I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin’ I don’t understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He’d have to say: ‘O.K., I’ll be part of this world.'” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
12- “But I think once you quit hearing “sir” and “ma’am,” the rest is soon to follow.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
13- “I was Sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman, father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time, him up in Plano and me out here. I think he’s pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time Sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough’d never carry one – that’s the younger Jim. Gaston Borkins wouldn’t wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can’t help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d have operated in these times. There was this boy I sent to the ‘lectric chair at Huntsville here awhile back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14-year-old girl. Papers said it was a ‘crime of passion’ but he told me there wasn’t any passion to it. Told me that he’d been plannin’ to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he’d do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell: ‘Be there in about fifteen minutes.’ I don’t know what to make of that. I surely don’t.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
14- “I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell,‘No Country for Old Men’.
15- “Ninety percent of the time. 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.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
16-“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
17- “People think they know what they want but they generally don’t. Sometimes if they’re lucky they’ll get it anyways. Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
18- “I think it is more like what you are willin to become. And I think a man would have to put his soul at hazard. And I wont do that. I think now that maybe I never would.” –Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
19- “He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age.”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
20- “What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? I’ve thought about it a good deal. But he wasn’t nothin’ compared to what was comin’ down the pike.”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
21- “The papers said it was a crime of passion and he told me there wasnt no passion to it. ”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
22- “I believe that whatever you do in your life it will get back to you. If you live long enough it will. ”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
23- “By the time you figured it out it would be too late”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
24- “One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not ever’body is goin to get older with you.”-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
25- “You can’t stop what’s comin’, it ain’t all waitin’ on you… That’s vanity.” –Ellis, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
26- “All the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you, more is going out the back door.” –Ellis, ‘No Country for Old Men’.
27- “-Accountant: Are you going to shoot me?
-Anton Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me?” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
28- “-Wendell: This is turnin’ into a hell of a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: If it isn’t, it’ll do until the mess gets here.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
29- “-Carla Jean Moss: Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Who’s Charlie Walser? Oh! Well… uh… a true story? I couldn’t swear to every detail but it’s certainly true that it is a story.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
30- “-Carla Jean Moss: I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.
-Llewelyn Moss: Well I got a good feeling, so that should even out.”-‘No Country for Old Men’.
31- “-Wendell: That’s very linear Sheriff.
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Well, age will flatten a man.” ‘No Country for Old Men’.
32- ” -Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: That man that shot you died in prison.
-Ellis: Angola. Yeah…
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: What you’d done he had been released?
-Ellis: Oh, I dunno. Nothing. Wouldn’t be no point in it.
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: I’m kindly surprised to hear you say that.
-Ellis: Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what’s been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it. Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
33- “-Boot Salesman: How those Larry’s holdin’ up?
-Llewelyn Moss: Uh, oh, good. Good! I need everything else.
-Boot Salesman: OK.
-Llewelyn Moss: Lotta people come in here without any clothes on?
-Boot Salesman: No sir, it’s unusual.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
34- “-Carla Jean Moss: What’s in the satchel?
-Llewelyn Moss: It’s full of money.
-Carla Jean Moss: (speaks with a sarcastic tone) Yeah, that’ll be the day.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
35- “-Carla Jean Moss: I ain’t got the money. What little I had is long gone, and there’s bills aplenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. Can’t pay for that neither.
-Anton Chigurh: I wouldn’t worry about it.
-Carla Jean Moss: I need to sit down.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
36- “-Carson Wells: Buenos Dias. I’m guessing this isn’t the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don’t worry. I’m not the man who’s after you.
-Llewelyn Moss: I know that. I’ve seen him.
-Carson Wells: You’ve seen him, and you’re not dead?
-Llewelyn Moss: What’s this guy supposed to be, the ultimate bada**?
-Carson Wells: No, I wouldn’t describe him as that.
-Llewelyn Moss: How would you describe him?
-Carson Wells: I guess I would say he doesn’t have a sense of humor.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
37- “-Wendell: You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of b*tches that’re huntin’ him?
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: I don’t know, he ought to. He’s seen the same things I’ve seen, and it’s certainly made an impression on me.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
38- “-Loretta Bell: Be careful.
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: I always am.
-Loretta Bell: Don’t get hurt.
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: I never do.
-Loretta Bell: Don’t hurt no one.
-Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Well. If you say so.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
39- “-Anton Chigurh: And you know what’s going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
-Carson Wells: You go to hell.
-Anton Chigurh: Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
-Carson Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
-Anton Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?
-Carson Wells: I mean the nature of you.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
40- “-Carla Jean Moss: What’re you goin to do?
-Llewelyn Moss: I’m fixin’ to do somethin’ dumbern’ hell but I’m goin’ anyways. If I don’t come back, tell Mother I love her.
-Carla Jean Moss: Your mother’s dead, Llewelyn.
-Llewelyn Moss: Well, then, I’ll tell her myself.” –‘No Country for Old Men’.
