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No Country for Old Men
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"No Country for Old Men" Quotes

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and is pursued by a relentless killer, while Sheriff Bell grapples with the changing nature of crime in the American West.

Quotes

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count.

Cormac McCarthy

pastregret

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Cormac McCarthy

eviladdiction

You can't be any poorer than dead.

Cormac McCarthy

povertydeath

You can't stop what's comin. It ain't all waitin on you. That's vanity.

Cormac McCarthy

fateacceptance

I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He would have to say, O.K., I'll be part of this world.

Cormac McCarthy

riskfear

You never see it comin what life is gonna throw at you next.

Cormac McCarthy

surpriseuncertainty

I think once you quit hearing 'sir' and 'ma'am' the rest is soon to follow.

Cormac McCarthy

respectmanners

You can't help but compare yourself against the old timers. But it's hard. You know they just don't make that kind of man anymore, for better or for worse.

Cormac McCarthy

comparisonchange

You never know what's in a man's mind.

Cormac McCarthy

mysterypsychology

You can't make a deal with him. Let me say it again. Even if you gave him the money back. You could'nt make a deal with him.

Cormac McCarthy

unpredictabilitydanger