“There will come a time when you might have to decide who lives and dies out there. It's a terrible responsibility but it's one you will have to make as a rescue swimmer. The bigger reality is also something you are going to have to live with as a human being.”
Kevin Costner - Ben Randall

“- Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
- Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
- Captain Spock: They're dying.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

In the novel you are supposed to read by monday "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe through his art reveals not only the ecstasy of romantic love but also the doomed consequences that necessarily follow.
James Toback - Leo Boscovitch

“- Lt. Frankie Reno: Why are you teaching the dogs Shakespeare?
- Colonel Kane: Someone's got to do it.”
Jason Miller - Lt. Frankie Reno
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane