• "Don't crush your own potential before you even try."

– Rin (Free! Eternal Summer; Ep.13)

• "I believe I have seen hell. It's white. It's snow-white.”

― Margaret (North & South)

• "Loyalty is but a step away from delusion."

– Auntie Joan (Doc Martin)

• "Why is it children must always pay for the sins of their fathers?"

– Mrs. Reynolds (Death Comes to Pemberley; Ep.3)

• "Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy."

― Dr. Kelso (Scrubs)

• "The guys with the funnies get the honeys."

– Edwin (Life with Derek; Season 2, Ep.2)

• "Telling isn't tattling, especially when someone's going to get hurt."

– Casey's counselor (Life With Derek; Season 3, Ep.7)

• “It’s the boy that blames the girl, not the man."

― Chuck (Gossip Girl; Season 6, Ep.1)

• "Was that funny? I never know when I'm being funny. Whenever I try to be, I lay the bomb of all time."

– Janet (Rope)

• "...because every white person's worst fear is being called racist. It's their equivalent of experiencing actual racism."

– Tamra (The Mindy Project; Season 5, Ep.12)

• "You don't have the monopoly on being a sad loser. None of us get what we want. What we do is we find people who are all right. And we cling to them. Good people."

– Agatha (Agatha Raisin, "The Vicious Vet")

• Van: "Mrs. H has stuck by us. Something you wouldn't know about."
• Van's father: "You watch yourself. I've fed you and clothed you for 17 years."
• Van: "Oh so that makes you a good father? My whole life all you've done is bully me."

– ("Don't Know Much About History")

• "So what's the best way to conquer fear? Knowledge."

– Erik (Mako Mermaids; Season 3, Ep.8 "New Orders")

• "A problem shared is a problem halved."

– _Uncle Shen (Mako Mermaids, Season 4, Ep.9)

• "If you do decide to go, make sure it for right reason. Leave under blue sky, not a cloud."

– _Uncle Shen (Mako Mermaids, Season 4, Ep.9)

• "Only men need to be loved, sweetheart. Women need to be wanted."

– Gemma (Sons of Anarchy, Season 5, Ep. 13)

• "All you've got is an impression... corrupted by the opinions of others."

– Gemma (Sons of Anarchy, Season 3, Ep. 7 "Widening Gyre")

• "Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator."

– Sherlock (BBC Sherlock; Season 1, Ep.1 "A Study in Pink")

• "Fear is wisdom in the face of danger."

– Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

• Spongebob: "What if I break your trust some day?"
• Patrick: "Trusting you is my decision. Proving me wrong is yours."

— Spongebob

• "Drinking is not a problem it's a symptom."

– Eliot (Leverage, Season 2, Ep.12)

• "People don't just show up to help. That's not how the world works."

– Victim (Leverage, Season 1, Ep.2)

• "He'd kill to protect their rights. A real soldier? Would die to protect somebody else's"

– Eliot (Leverage, Season 3, Ep.7)

• "Friendship, for example, is a real gift. And it's given with no expectation. And no gratitude is necessary. Not between real friends."

– Mr. Feeny (Boy Meets World)

• "When being right is more important than being friends? Then that's the end of being friends."

– Maya (Girl Meets World, Season 1, Ep.18)

• "Riley, people only get upset with each other when what they're talking about is important to them."

– Maya (Girl Meets World, Season 1, Ep.18)

• "He told me to give [the inheritance] to you when you found something that you value so much to give up everything else."

― A Millionaire's First Love drama

• "A damsel in distress? In the end, are you really so obvious? Because this was textbook: The promise of love, the pain of loss, the joy of redemption, then give him a puzzle and watch him dance."

– Mycroft Holmes (BBC Sherlock; Season 2, Episode 1 "A Scandal in Belgravia")

• "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

– Mycroft Holmes (BBC Sherlock; Season 2, Episode 1 "A Scandal in Belgravia")

• "Vah mau vah tor-yehat ri stau. Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau? Dom nam-tor vohris nem-tor ha'kiv. [As far as possible, do not kill. Can you return life to what you kill? Then be slow to take life.]"

– Surak (Star Trek)

• "You may have created me, but you were never my father. Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the Monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends. They are my family. This is my home. And you are not welcome here."

– Raven (Teen Titans; Season 4 finale "The End - Part 3")

• “There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You’d think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would fine the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.”

– Cameron Tucker (Modern Family; Season 3, Ep.9)

• "You're right. I got no family, not like you mean, but I had brothers. I had a lot of them. I didn't know all the names of them, but I knew their faces and I knew their rank, and I did things I didn't want to because they counted on me. Bad things for good reasons. And you know what I learned? Bad choices are bad choices, doesn't matter why you made them. And they tear you apart from the inside out, and you don't even notice."

– Eliot (Leverage; Season 5, Ep.2 "The Blue Line Job")

• Dorothy's Ex-husband: "You know, Dorothy. All those years of marriage, through all those struggles, the one thing I wanted was to be a success. Suddenly I have all the success I want, and it scares me. I keep waiting for a knock at the door–'Hi, it's me. Failure.' I'm scared to face it alone. What I'm trying to say is, I need your help, Dorothy, like I did when we were together. [Dorothy doesn't respond, so he chuckles, disheartened.] So what'dya think?"
• Dorothy: "I hate to admit it but you look good."
• Dorothy's Ex-husband: "Well, wish me luck."

– The Golden Girls (Season 1, Ep.32)

• Alric: "You'd side with them... over me?"
• Jana: "They're my friends!"
• Alric: "And you condemn me."
• Jana: "Why did you have to lie to me?"
• Alric: "I'm trying to protect you."
• Jana: "You lied to me!"
• Alric: "Jana, please. Please help me, or there will be no clan for you to inherit! ...Aaaagh!! Don't! Don't come near me. There's no way back for you now. ...You're no daughter of mine. Not anymore."

– Wolfblood (Season 2; Ep.5 "Ancient Grudge")

• "Have you ever had a dream... that's—that's so real... that you thought it was a memory?"

– Papa Stilinksi (Teen Wolf; Season 6, Ep.3)

• "One's an incident. Two's a coincidence. Three's a pattern."

– Stiles (Teen Wolf; Season 2, Ep.8)

• "Our family has a surprisingly progressive tradition. Knowing wars and violence are typically started by men, we place the final decisions—the hard ones—with the women. Our sons are trained to be soldiers. Our daughters to be leaders."

– Chris Argent (Teen Wolf; Season 2, Ep.3 "Ice Pick")

• "You don’t care about getting hurt. But you know how I’ll feel? I’ll be devastated, and if you die, I will literally go out of my freaking mind. You see, death doesn’t happen to you, Lydia. It happens to everyone around you. Okay? It happens to all the people left standing around at your funeral trying to figure out how they’re going to live the rest of their lives now without you in it.”

– Stiles (Teen Wolf; Season 2, Ep.12)

• Derek Hale: "You've been trying to find a way into his pack. Trying to earn his trust, trying to fight for him. You've had it wrong the whole time. You don't fight for a leader. You fight for a leader's cause."
• Aidan: "What cause?"
• Derek Hale: "Scott's always been about one thing. Saving his friends. He will do anything and everything to save the people he cares about. When there's no chance of winning, he keeps fighting. When all hope is lost, he finds another way, and when he's beaten down, he stands up again! You want to find a place in his pack? You want redemption? Find another way to stand and fight!"

– Teen Wolf

• "Every feeling is valid."

― Grace (Will & Grace)

• "But we're your friends and we love you. And if we can't help each other out in the hard times, then what are we doing?"

― Grace (Will & Grace)

• Bobbi: "Let me tell you something, dear. I joke about your father, but I love him. You can ask him anytime, day and night, who is the love of his life, and he'll say, 'I married her. Now move over. You're blocking the TV.'"
• Grace: "Maybe you just got really lucky."
• Bobbi: "No. No, I'm not lucky. I'm terrific. And you're terrific, Grace. Oh, honey, you are a wonderful woman. Grace, embrace who you are."

― Bobbi and Grace (Will & Grace; Season 1 "The Unsinkable Mommy Adler")

• "When I'm feeling like there's no love coming to me and I have no love to give, when I'm feeling separated from the world and cut off from myself, when I'm feeling annoyed by every little thing because I'm not getting what I want, I'll remember that there is an infinite amount of love available to me and I'll see it in you. I'll remember that I'm complete within myself so I'll never have to look to you to complete me, and most of all, I'll remember that everything I really need, I already have, and whatever I don't have will come to me when I'm ready to receive it."

– Will and Grace (Will & Grace; Season 3 Ep.11)

• Leslie: "This mural is called Bad Pawnee, Good Pawnee. All of the terrible things that have happened in this town's history are on one side. And on the other side are all the good things that have happened. I'm on the bad side."
• Ron: "No you're not."
• Leslie: "Yes, I am, Ron. I'm guilty. I did something bad. I'm a bad person."
• Ron: "It's not that simple. You know what makes a good person good? When a good person does something bad, they own up to it. They try to learn something from it and they move on."

– Parks and Recreation (Season 4, Ep.9 "The Trial of Leslie Knope")

• Ron: "Leslie, for God's sake, you're the adult here. When your kid screams "I hate you," you don't sink to his level and yell 'I hate you' back. You have to be the grown-up."
• Leslie: "You're right. I know. I have to be the grown-up. But it's so hard! Ron! God! And nobody ever thanks you."
• Ron: "You choose a thankless job, you can't be upset when nobody thanks you. And by the way, April thanked you. She nominated you for this award."
• Leslie: "Well, April does that all the time. She nominated Ann for Motocross Driver of the Year award just so she could get a rejection letter."
• Ron: "April respects you, and so do many others. Don't start chasing applause and acclaim. That way lies madness."

– Parks and Recreation (Season 6, Ep.1)

• "Trust is earned. I can't just magically hand it over."

– Elena (The Vampire Diaries; Season 1, Ep.4)

• "Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her, and you torture me because you still do. And that, my brother, that is your humanity."

– Stefan to Damon (The Vampire Diaries; Season 1, Ep.3)

• "(Klaus) and I are the same. We manipulate, we thirst for power, we control, we punish. But our actions are driven by one singular place deep inside: we’re alone and we hate it.”

– Katherine (The Vampire Diaries; Season 4, Ep.20)

• Caroline: "And no offense, but even if she still was alive wouldn't she be like really old?"
• Enzo: "70 years of captivity and she was the face I'd clung on to. It's just the notion that one day I'd get out and see her again... I don't want to date her, Caroline. I want to thank her."

– The Vampire Diaries (Season 5 Ep.18 "Resident Evil")

• Caroline: "Why didn't he go for me? You know, how come the guys that I want never want me?"
• Bonnie: "I'm not touching that."
• Caroline: "I'm inappropriate. I always say the wrong thing. And... Elena always says the right thing. She doesn't even try! And he just picks her. And she's always the one that everyone picks, for everything. And I try so hard and... I'm never the one."

– The Vampire Diaries (Season 1)

• Mellie: "You didn't show up for me. You didn't show up for that stupid reporter, and me, and Teddy, and that photo op, and the oval — you left me hanging and I had to do everything myself. I always have to. I am tired of doing everything myself! I am alone here. We're supposed to be partners. We're supposed to be in this together."
• Fitz: "Let's not pretend we're something we're not."
• Mellie: "If you knew the sacrifices that I have made, the things that I have given up, and the pieces of myself that I have given away for you and you treat me this way? You declare war on me and you shame me and you make me beg for scraps when I have done nothing but fight for you. ...You don’t have to love me, but we are in this hell together and the flames are burning both of us with equal intensity, baby, so the least you could do is be my friend. Just a little bit. The least you could do is show up! Show up for me. Show up for me, Fitz. Not some man, like some... stranger."

Scandal (Season 3, Ep.7)

• Amanda: "What are you doing here, Nikita? I didn't kill Daniel. I didn't kill Ryan."
• Nikita: "Oh, I'm so grateful!"
• Amanda: "You should be on your knees. I saved your life. When you came to me, you were nothing. A foster kid tossed by the system, but I made you better. I made you amazing, and what did you do to repay me? You broke my heart."
• Nikita: "You think you gave me some kind of gift? You took a messed up girl, and you made her a broken woman. You told me I was beautiful and you told me that I was special."
• Amanda: "You were."
• Nikita: "You lied! You took me from one hell hole and you put me in another. And then you dressed me up all pretty, and you served me up to them. Just like my foster mother did. I broke your heart? You… broke mine."
• Amanda: "...So what happens now?"
• Nikita: "I guess, I die. And... you lose."

– Nikita (Season 2, Ep.18)

• “If my father donates it all, I suppose I’ll be left with nothing. The man has never taught his son how to fly, but he expects his son to fly. That’s my father."

– Han Do Hoon (Call of the Country; Ep.12)

• Han Do Hoon: “You once said that you could earn 20 won by just sticking an eye onto a doll, right? How many doll eyes do I have to stick to earn US$400,000.00?”
• Oh Ha Na: “Eh? US$400,000.00? A… lot. Probably until I can’t make out which is the left or right eye.”
• Han Do Hoon: “You said that your situation requires you to be the breadwinner in your family, right? Have you ever thought of giving up?”
• Oh Ha Na: “How can I give up? They’re my family.”
• Han Do Hoon: “How did you hang on?”
• Oh Ha Na: “It’s not going to kill a person. You just do your best and survive. Plus, when things get really pressing, you suddenly find yourself capable of things you would never have done before.”
• Han Do Hoon: “Even… if it means doing something bad?”
• Oh Ha Na: “Yeah. As long as you don’t go overboard. But, if I had to do something bad, I’ll probably first think of my mom. 'If I do something bad, my mom will be really disappointed.' I’ll not do it then. …Is something wrong? Today, did something happen at the Art Fair?”
• Han Do Hoon: “I thought of my father. Ah… He would be extremely disappointed... because I realized what I might cause.”
• Oh Ha Na: “Just don’t do it then. By the way, why do you want to do it?”
• Han Do Hoon: “Because… I… am a really bad guy.”
• Oh Ha Na: "(…) You’re not like yourself today. ‘Bad guy’… How can you be a bad guy? Real bad guys won’t go telling others that they’re bad guys.”

– Call of the Country (Ep.12)

• "When you love someone like I loved her, they're a part of you; it’s like you’re attached by this invisible tether and no matter how far away you are, you can always feel them."

– Sue Sylvester (Glee; Season 2, Ep.21 "Funeral")

• Principal Figgins: "Sue, the directors, both from the Jane Addams Academy and Haverbrook School for the Deaf, have informed me that you gave them the New Directions' set list."
• Sue: "You have no proof."
• Figgins: "The set lists were on Cheerios' letterhead."
• Sue: "I didn't do it."
• Figgins: "They say, "From the desk of Sue Sylvester."
• Sue: "Circumstantial evidence."
• Figgins: "They're written in your handwriting!"
• Sue: "Forgeries."
• Figgins: "Sue, there is an orgy of evidence stacked against you!"
• Sue: "Well, you've clearly made up your mind not to be impartial in this case.”

– Glee (Season 1, Ep.13 "Sectionals")

• "You know there’s a question that I get asked a lot, whether I’m accepting an honorary doctorate or performing a citizen’s arrest, people ask me, Sue, what’s your secret? Well I’ll tell you my secret, western Ohio. Sue Sylvester is not afraid to shake things up. You know I’m tired of hearing people complain “I’m riddled with this disease” or “I was in that tsunami.” To them I say, shake it up a bit; get out of your box. Even if that box happens to be where you are living. I’ll often yell at homeless people, “Hey, how’s that homelessness working out for ya? Give not being homeless a try, huh?” You know something, Ohio? It’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something: there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full of cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you—they're both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that and someday, they will.”

– Sue Sylvester (Glee; Season 1, Ep.4 "Preggers")

• "Well, no one ever said life was fair. Only eventful."

– Law and Order: SVU ("Ballerina")

• "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime (Law); and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders (Order). These are their stories."

– Law and Order opening sequence

• "No one wants to hear you're happy."

– Kelly Sloane-Raines (Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Season 6, Ep.3 "Siren Call")

• Stabler: "He robbed that hotel on purpose. He wanted to go back to prison."
• Benson: "He thought she'd be better off without him."
• Eddie: "Yeah well some people could do the time and walk out like nothing happened. Other people, they do their time and they come out and they're never normal.
• Stabler: "Yeah well, what about Rosie?"
• Eddie: "He finally realized sometimes, even if you want something real bad, you shouldn't have it."

– _Law and Order: SVU ("Snatched")

• "There was this guy in the hood that she liked, this guy named Vince. She went down to Coney Island to, uh, to see him. You know that whole 'under the boardwalk, down by the sea' thing? After Vince... did her... his whole set wolf-packed her. Seven, eight guys... she's not sure. Which is bad enough, Captain, but it just gets worse. They left her there, uh, by herself, in the cold, wrapped up in a beach towel. It was after dark, you know, and she couldn't walk. She just sat there in what was left of her... clothes, and this guy comes along and asks her if she needs some help, and she says, 'Yes. Please. Thank you.' And this guy... this, uh... this Good Samaritan, he, uh... he..."

– Brian Cassidy (Law and Order SVU, Season 1, Episode: "Disrobed")

• (Dr. Rebecca Hendrix asks if Elliot's father ever helped him with his homework)
• Elliot Stabler: "Once, when I was in fifth grade. I had to make this diorama. Remember those things? The model you put in shoe boxes?"
• Dr. Hendrix: "Sure."
• Elliot Stabler: "It was about the Civil War. And he told me where the put the cannons, and the soldiers, the trees... Nah, forget it."
• Dr. Hendrix: "Did you get a good grade?"
• Elliot Stabler: What?"
• Dr. Hendrix: "Did you get a good grade?"
• Elliot Stabler: "What difference does that make?"
• Dr. Hendrix: "It's just a question."
• Elliot Stabler: "I don't understand what you want from me."
• Dr. Hendrix: "The truth. I want you to start talking... really talking. What grade did you get on the diorama?"
• Elliot Stabler: "An F!"
• Dr. Hendrix: "You failed."
• Elliot Stabler: "I didn't hand it in."
• Dr. Hendrix: "Why not?"
• Elliot Stabler: "I moved one of the trees. And my father saw it as I was leaving for school. He took it out of my hands and he threw it on the ground and he stomped on it."
• Dr. Hendrix: "It must have really hurt when he did that."
• Elliot Stabler: "He took off his belt and he beat me with it... Because I cried... and only... pan... pansies cry... He said I was weak, and called me a failure. He called me that a lot."
• Dr. Hendrix: "What did you see in that mirror today, Elliot?"
• Elliot Stabler: "The guy my father always saw."
• Dr. Hendrix: "You're not weak. You're so busy being strong, and helping everyone, you've got nothing left for yourself. It takes a lot more balls to talk about your problems, than beat the hell out of a ghost."

– Law and Order: SVU (Season 7, Ep.4 "Ripped")

• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "My mother used to call me a 'flibbertigibbet.' I've been accused of being impulsive, irresponsible, flighty. And those are just the G-rated words."
• Olivia Benson: "But you never saw a doctor?"
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "In my day, eccentricity was tolerated. You know, now, they've got a pill for everything."
• Olivia Benson: "Did you ever try medication?"
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "Once. I had a fight with Joe, and his gun went off. He had me committed. And they tied me down, and they forced pills down my throat. I felt like an empty shell, like someone had reached inside of me and scooped out my soul. And I would rather be dead than go to that place again. You know? I mean, I am what I am. I accept myself, and I live life on my own terms."
• Olivia Benson: "But you pay a pretty steep price."
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "Yeah, well, maybe I do. But it's my life, and I'm not going to go parading myself in front of some court, and announce to the world that I'm crazy."

– Law and Order: SVU (Season 10, Ep.3 "Swing")

• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "See, we all make mistakes, Katie. There's no shame in that. But you do have to take responsibility for your actions."
• Kathleen Stabler: "I've done a lot of bad stuff, too. With boys."
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "You're a beautiful girl. Boys have always liked you."
• Kathleen Stabler: "They just wanted sex. And I gave it to them. A lot of them. Even ones I didn't know. When I think about it, it makes me want to die."
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "Honey, there's nothing we can do about the past. But you can start fresh tomorrow."
• Kathleen Stabler: "How?"
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "By hugging the ones who love you, even when you think that they might not want it."
• Prison Guard: "It's time."
• Kathleen Stabler: "Wait. You didn't answer my question, Grandma. Do you think I'm crazy?
• Mrs. Bernie Stabler: "I think you're different. Like me. I've lived the life I wanted to live, and I've paid a terrible price."

– Law and Order: SVU (Season 10, Ep.3 "Swing")

• "Problems are just opportunities that haven't presented themselves."

– Fisk (Daredevil)

• "It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it."

– Madame Gao (Daredevil)

• Matt Murdock: "Do you believe in the Devil, Father?"
• Father Lantom: "You mean... as a concept?"
• Matt Murdock: "No. Do you believe he exists? In this world, among us."
• Father Lantom: "You want the short answer or the long one?"
• Matt Murdock: "Just the truth."
• Father Lantom: "When I was in seminary, I was more studious than pious, more... skeptical than most of my peers. I had this notion, which I was more than willing to speak about, at length, to whoever I could corner. That the Devil... was inconsequential. Minor figure in the grand scheme."
• Matt Murdock: "Not very Catholic of you."
• Father Lantom: "Uh-huh, yeah. In my defense, in the scriptures, the Hebrew word 'Satan' actually means 'adversary.' It's applied to any antagonist. Angels and humans, serpents and kings. Medieval theologians reinterpreted those passages to be about a single monstrous enemy. And, in my youthful zeal, I was certain I knew why: propaganda. Played up to drive people into the church."
• Matt Murdock: "So you don't believe he exists."
• Father Lantom: "Am I done talking?"
• Matt Murdock: "Sorry."
• Father Lantom: "Years later, I was in Rwanda, trying to help local churches provide aid and sanctuary to refugees. I'd become close with the village elder, Gahiji. He and his family had the respect of everybody, Hutu and Tutsi alike. He'd helped them all; through famines, disease. The militia liked to force Hutu villagers to murder their neighbors... with machetes. But nobody would raise a hand against Gahiji. They said, 'Well... how can we kill such a holy man?' So the militia commander sent soldiers... with orders to cut his head off... in front of the entire village. Gahiji didn't try to put up a fight. Just asked for the chance to say goodbye to his family. By the time he was done, even the soldiers didn't wanna kill him. So they went to their commander and asked permission to shoot him. At least give him a quick death. The commander wanted to meet this man who had won the respect of so many. He went to Gahiji... talked with him in his hut, for many hours. Then he dragged him out in front of his village and hacked him to pieces... along with his entire family. In that man who took Gahiji's life... I saw the Devil. So yes, Matthew... I believe he walks among us; taking many forms."

– Daredevil (Season 1, Ep.9 "Speak of the Devil")