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Oceans 11. Frodo and Sam. Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope. All great teams are founded on trust. Click on any trust quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"And she shaved his head, and his strength went from him."Source: Judges 16:17, 19 | Author: Author of Judges

"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite



"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"Blood is thicker than water."Source: Ancient Proverb | Author: Unknown

"Can you dig it?"Source: Super Fly | Speaker: Youngblood Priest



"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."Source: Matthew 11:28 | Speaker: Jesus

"Don't bring me down…Bruce!"Source: "Don't Bring Me Down" | Speaker: Electric Light Orchestra

"Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer…"Source: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" | Speaker: Vicki Lawrence


"Everyone keeps saying that. It must be a conspiracy."Source: Jessica Jones | Speaker: Jessica Jones


"First rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club."Source: Fight Club | Speaker: Tyler Durden


"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash



"I am Groot."Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman


"I know it was you, Fredo."Source: The Godfather, Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Author: Douglas Adams


"I started Early—Took my Dog / and visited the Sea"Source: I started Early—Took my Dog | Author: Emily Dickinson

"I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zig ha."Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: The Spice Girls

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."Source: Question and Answer Session | Speaker: Helen Keller

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV."Source: Vicks Formula 44 | Speaker: Chris Robinson

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?"Source: The Gospel of Luke | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth

"Let's be careful out there."Source: Hill Street Blues | Speaker: Sergeant Phil Esterhaus



"Make it work."Source: Project Runway | Speaker: Tim Gunn

"Mamma mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist you?"Source: Mamma Mia | Speaker: ABBA

"Match me, Sidney."Source: Sweet Smell of Success | Speaker: J.J. Hunsecker

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen

"No arts; no letters; no society."Source: Leviathan | Author: Thomas Hobbes

"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley


"Shane! Shane! Come back!"Source: Shane | Speaker: Little Joey

"So you wanna play with magic?"Source: "Dark Horse" | Speaker: Katy Perry

"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The proof is in the pudding."Source: Proverb | Speaker: Unknown

"The truth is...I am Iron Man."Source: Iron Man | Speaker: Tony Stark


"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."Source: Crime and Punishment | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky


"Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall."Source: Superstition | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott

"We all need somebody to lean on."Source: "Lean on Me" | Speaker: Bill Withers

"We are canceling the apocalypse!"Source: Pacific Rim | Speaker: Stacker Pentecost


"You ain't never had a friend like me!"Source: Friend Like Me | Speaker: Genie

"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Author: Mark Twain

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You're so money and you don't even know it."Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker