Cognitive re-calibration, Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

Natasha Romanoff: [Clint is waking up from Loki's mind control] Clint, you're gonna be alright.
Clint Barton: You know that? Is that what you know? I got... I gotta go in though. I gotta flush him out.
Natasha Romanoff: You gotta level out, that's gonna take time.
Clint Barton: You don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Take you out and stuff something else in? You know what it's like to be unmade?
Natasha Romanoff: You know that I do.
Clint Barton: Why am I back? How'd you get him out?
Natasha Romanoff: Cognitive re-calibration. I hit you really hard in the head.
Clint Barton: Thanks.

- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

Nature, Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb

Women, Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

여성은 신의 두번째 실수입니다.

- 니체

Winter, Willa Cather

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

- Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Work, Albanian Proverb

Kur s'ke punë luaj derën.
Translation: When you have nothing to do, rattle the door.

- Albanian proverb

Meaning: If you are bored, start doing some work.

Kostallari, Gjuhësisëdhe i Letërsisë(Akademia e Shkencave e RPS tëShqipërisë) (1981). Fjalor i gjuhës sësotme shqipe. Rilindja. p. 1570.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albanian_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Celebrity, Phoebe Cates

Young people are more sophisticated today, thanks to magazines and movies and even porno cable television. As a New Yorker I think I`ve matured faster than other young people. I`m street smart.

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Time, Zhu Xi (朱憙, 1130-1200)

少年易老学难成，一寸光阴不可轻。

- 朱憙

The young become old soon. It takes a lot of time to learn something. We must not waste any time.

- Zhu Xi (朱憙, 1130-1200)

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Similar Sayings

¶ Time is money. (Western Proverb)

¶ You may delay, but time will not. (Benjamin Franklin)

Winter, William Bradford

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

- William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor, 1590-1657)

Fortune, Ndebele Proverb

Amajodo awela abangelambiza.
Translation: Fortune favours the foolish.

- Ndebele proverb

As quoted in Rev. J.N. Pelling, A Practial Ndebele Dictionary, Longman Zimbabwe, Harare (1994), p. 150.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ndebele_proverbs
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Time, Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer. You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,13-14

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Tomorrow, African Proverb

Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

- West African proverb

Prospectus, Goldman (2011). Baseball Prospectus 2011. John Wiley and Sons. p. 496. ISBN 0470622067.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/African_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not steal. You shall not deceive or speak falsely to one another.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,11

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Japan, Hua Chunying (華春瑩)

Abe's visit to the shrine has already attracted the Chinese people's ire and denunciation. How can a person who is not willing to face up to their own history, to facts, win the trust of the international community or cause people to believe he has a role to play in maintaining regional and global peace and stability?

- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying (Dec 27, 2013)

Courage, Chinese Proverb

Only the brave deserve the fair.

- Chinese Proverb

However, only the rich, fat and cowardly merchants can afford the same.