Miriam Quotes in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Miriam Quotes:
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Miriam: They say there is a correlation between generosity and guilt.
-- Miriam -
[last lines]
Tally: I promised to go back. I need to say goodbye.
Josie: Mom, I want to go with her. I want to say goodbye too.
Miriam: Honey, it's a miracle you survived.
Josie: It's a miracle.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [speaking of Christ] As though he were carrying that cross the pain of the world.
[she whispers]
Miriam: So fearful.
Tirzah: And yet why is it... I'm not afraid anymore?
[thunder rumbles]
Esther: The shadow of a storm.
[they go inside a nearby cave; the sky goes dark outside]
Esther: A strange darkness, but still day.
[a violent storm begins]
Miriam: His life is over.
[lightning cracks]
Tirzah: He's here. It's tearing... I feel the pain!
Miriam: I feel it too.
[They seem to faint]
Esther: [concerned] Miriam?
[Miriam presses Esther's hand]
Esther: I thought that... Miriam! Do you see your hand?
[They look; Tirzah sits up, healed]
Esther: Tirzah! Miriam!
[They touch each other's faces, feel their hands, embrace as they realize they've been healed]
-- Miriam -
[Judah confronts Esther and Malluch in the Valley of the Lepers]
Judah Ben-Hur: [angrily, to Esther] Why did you tell me they were dead?
Esther: It was what they wanted. Judah, I must not betray this faith. Will you do this for them?
Judah Ben-Hur: Not to see them?
Esther: [seeing Miriam and Tirzah approach] They are coming... Judah! Judah, love them in the way they most need to be loved: not to look at them! Judah, let it be as though you had never come here. Please, Judah!
[Judah hides behind a boulder as Esther goes to meet Miriam]
Miriam: Is Judah well? Is he happy?
[Judah's face twists in anguish]
Esther: Yes. He is well. Your mind can be at rest for him. He is well, Miriam.
Miriam: [taking the basket of food] God be with you.
[Miriam and Tirzah go back into their cave]
Esther: [going back to Judah] They are gone. We can go back.
Judah Ben-Hur: [bitterly] Go back... to what?
Esther: Judah, they have one blessing left: to think you remember them as they were. Live your own life. Forget what is here.
Judah Ben-Hur: Forget? It's as if they were alive in a grave!
Esther: But what can you do?
Judah Ben-Hur: Undo what you've done! How could you have suffered them to come here? I must see them!
Esther: No Judah, please! Judah!
[Judah starts toward the cave but is stopped by Malluch]
Esther: Oh, think, Judah, *think*! It will tear them apart if they see you!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [hesitating as they leave the Valley of the Lepers] I'm afraid.
Esther: [embracing her] No cause. The world is more than we know.
-- Miriam -
[Christ passes, bearing the cross]
Esther: How can this be?
Judah Ben-Hur: [shocked] I *know* this man!
[Jesus stumbles and is whipped by the centurions]
Miriam: [pleading] Won't someone help him?
[Jesus is whipped again]
Tirzah: Pity on him!
Miriam: [wonderingly] In his pain... there's a look of peace.
Judah Ben-Hur: Watch over them, Esther.
[he goes after Jesus]
Miriam: We must go back.
Esther: [sadly] I brought you here to this... when I hoped...
Miriam: [looking after Christ] You haven't failed, Esther.
-- Miriam -
Messala: Just as I remember it. The courtyard where we used to play at changing the guard; the roof where we used to throw pebbles at the people in the street and then hide!
[to Miriam]
Messala: Ah, we were rascals, weren't we?
Miriam: No, you were good boys! I would have that time again.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Moses, hear what I say. I have been a slave all my life. And God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, He saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh. God will not abandon you. So don't you abandon us.
-- Miriam -
God: [whispering] Moses...
Moses: Here I am.
God: Take the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
Moses: Who are you?
God: I am that I am.
Moses: I don't understand.
God: I am the God of your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Miriam: [disembodied] You were born of my mother, Yocheved! You are our brother!
[Moses quickly removes his sandals and throws them behind him]
Moses: What do you want with me?
God: I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and have heard their cry.
[sound of screams and cracking whips]
God: So I shall stretch forth my hand, and lead them out of Egypt, into a good land. A land flowing with milk and honey. And so, unto Pharaoh, I shall send... you.
Moses: Me? W-who am I to lead these people? They won't follow me, they won't even listen!
God: I shall teach you what to say.
Moses: [disembodied] Let my people go!
Moses: But I was their enemy. I was the prince of Egypt, the son of the man who slaughtered... their *children*! You've chosen the wrong messenger! H-how can I even speak to these people?
God: WHO MADE MAN'S MOUTH? WHO MADE THE DEAF, THE MUTE, THE SEEING OR THE BLIND? DID NOT I? NOW GO!
[Moses falls to the ground, cowering]
God: [soothing, lifting Moses up] Oh, Moses, I shall be with you when you go to the king of Egypt. But Pharaoh will not listen. So I will stretch forth my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders! Take the staff in your hand, Moses. With it, *you* shall do *my* wonders.
[whispers]
God: I will be with you, Moses.
-- Miriam -
Rameses Son: Father?
Miriam: It's...
Egyptian: Blood!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [singing] Many nights we've prayed, with no proof anyone could hear. In our hearts a hopeful song we barely understood. Now we are not afraid, although we know there's much to fear. We were moving mountains, long before we knew we could...
-- Miriam -
Miriam: There can be miracles, when you believe Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill Who knows what miracles you can achieve When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe
-- Miriam -
Moses: [Moses opened the door, after Bithiah knocked] Bithiah.
Bithiah: In fear of your God, they have set me free. May a stranger enter?
Moses: There are no strangers among those who seek God's mercy.
Bithiah: My bearers?
Moses: All who thirst for freedom may come with us. The darkness of death will pass over us tonight, and tomorrow the light of freedom will shine upon us as we go forth from Egypt.
Bithiah: I shall go with you, Moses.
Miriam: A princess of Egypt?
Aaron: An Egyptian?
Miriam: An idol worshipper!
Moses: This woman drew me from the Nile and set my feet upon the path of knowledge. Mered, bring a chair to our table for the daughter of Pharaoh.
Bithiah: There is a great light that shines from your face, Moses. Perhaps someday I shall come to understand it.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Do you ever tell anyone the truth?
Edward Pierce: The truth? The truth... no.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: All you ever think about is money.
Edward Pierce: All anyone ever thinks about is money.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: It's all very good... unless something goes wrong.
Edward Pierce: What could go wrong?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [referring to Pierce's social acquaintances while she disrobes in front of him] And do they know you take an *interest* in the theater?
Edward Pierce: Well, an unmarried gentleman must amuse himself.
Miriam: [smiling] Must he?
-- Miriam -
Delilah: You love him. Women cannot deceive each other. It is in your face when you look at him. You want him for yourself.
Miriam: Yes, I love him. In his face, I see all that is strong and good. His name is like a cry of hope for us. I've dreamed that someday Samson would take me for his wife. But he's never looked upon me as a woman.
Delilah: His face... his name... shadows on the wall. You think that is love? You worship him with prayers and downcast eyes. I love him as a man of flesh and blood!
Miriam: He is not leaving you for me. There is a higher voice that speaks through him, and he will always answer its call. Even your treacherous beauty cannot turn him from it.
Delilah: I cannot fight against his god. But no woman will take him from me.
-- Miriam -
[last lines]
Saul: He was so strong. Why did he have to die?
Miriam: His strength will never die, Saul. Men will tell his story for a thousand years.
-- Miriam -
Samson: Miriam, you're further above me than the moon.
Miriam: But not as hard to reach. Only stretch out your hand.
Samson: I don't want to hurt you, Miriam. You're like a sparrow, so gentle and...
Miriam: That's a very gentle way of telling me that you're in love with someone else?
Samson: You always see through people as if they were cobwebs.
Miriam: I hear you saw a woman in Timnath.
Samson: Yes... and I can't forget her.
Miriam: You did the same with me. I can't forget you.
[Miriam walks to the door]
Samson: [approaches Miriam at the door] Miriam.
Miriam: I'll always be here.
[Miriam closes the door]
-- Miriam -
Beth: Miriam! I have to take your blood pressure!
Miriam: I've been sitting still for 25 years. You missed your chance.
-- Miriam -
Margaret: Miriam, there's no easy way to tell you this, so - your husband - he was granted a divorce from you in 1952.
Miriam: Oh, thank God!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: That poor woman... I used to be such a fan
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [to her husband] Your, clothes, your hair. They might say 1968, but your attitude is pure 1920.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: What's she like Paul? The woman, you are sleeping with. What's she like?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Miracle! Oh, what a beautiful name! What's yours?
Comicus: Miracle... uh, Comicus. I'm a stand-up philosopher.
Miriam: Oh, I'm Miriam. I'm a Vestal Virgin.
Comicus: I'm really sorry to hear that!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: We've got to get out of Rome!
Josephus: But how? The streets are crawling with soldiers! See?
[they look down and see soldiers crawling, literally, across the street]
-- Miriam -
Barney Panofsky: ...and I'm just gonna keep talking here, 'cause I'm afraid that if I stop there's gonna be a pause or a break and you're gonna say 'It's getting late' or 'I should get going', and I'm not ready for that to happen. I don't want that to happen. Ever.
[they pause]
Miriam: There it was. The pause.
Barney Panofsky: Yeah.
Miriam: I'm still here.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: We can be friends now, can't we?
Barney Panofsky: No. We can't.
Miriam: I'm here for you if you'll let me. We had a beautiful marriage, but it's over. I want you to be at peace with that.
Barney Panofsky: Have I ever given up when it comes to you?
Miriam: Never.
Barney Panofsky: So what makes you think I would start now?
-- Miriam -
Barney Panofsky: Should I sleep on the sofa?
Miriam: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You're not sleeping on the sofa, we don't sleep apart. Good night.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Really? Well, words matter. Actions matter. They have consequences. If you want people to take you seriously, then act accordingly. Do you understand me, Barney?
Barney Panofsky: Yes
Miriam: What am I saying?
Barney Panofsky: Be great in act, as you have in thought
-- Miriam -
Miriam: We were just gonna throw some burgers on the barbecue. Do you want to join us?
Blair: I'm a vegan. But thank you.
Barney Panofsky: A what? Is that treatable?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Are you out of your mind?
Barney Panofsky: No! I'm bent over backwards in love!
-- Miriam -
Eunice: I know I'm a bad person
Miriam: Don't be daft. There's no such thing as a bad person.
-- Miriam -
Eunice: Do you remember how Elijah beat the prophets of Baal? They were up on Mount Carmel and Baal's prophets put the sacrifice on the altar and called for Him to come and take it... and they never came. And Elijah poured water all over his sacrifice, drowned it with water, water swirling all round the altar! And the fire of God came and turned it all to steam, and consumed the sacrifice and the altar with it. So you see, you never know. Have you entered the springs of the sea or walked into the dark recesses of the deep?
Miriam: No.
Eunice: Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or seen the storehouses of the hail?
Miriam: I've been nowhere.
Eunice: Do you know the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the winds are scattered to the earth?
Miriam: I know nothing.
Eunice: Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
Miriam: I'm useless. I am useless but you can do all things.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Why wouldn't I tell him that his pure, darling little girl was having a dirty little affair with a married man?
Charlotte: You're a vile, sorry little bitch!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [Arriving at Charlotte's house] They say places you knew as a child always seem smaller than your memory of them. It's not true!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: You idiot. You wretched idiot! He's dead. And you killed him!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?
Velma Cruther: I just come for my things.
Miriam: Is my cousin one of your things?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: What is it that you don't believe Drew? That I'm here, or that I look the way I do?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: My dress. Somebody slashed my dress!
-- Miriam -
Miriam: As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices.
-- Miriam -
Jasper: Everything is a mythical, cosmic battle between faith and chance.
[offers Miriam a joint]
Miriam: Maybe I shouldn't.
Jasper: You already did. Take another one. Now cough. What do you taste?
Miriam: Strawberries!
Jasper: Strawberries? That's what it's called: Strawberry Cough!
Kee: Wicked!
Jasper: So. You've got faith over here, right? And chance over there.
Miriam: Like yin and yang.
Jasper: Sort of.
Miriam: Or Shiva and Shakti.
Jasper: Lennon and McCartney!
Kee: [looking at pictures] Look, Julian and Theo.
Jasper: Yeah, there you go! Julian and Theo met among a million protestors in a rally by chance. But they were there because of what they believed in in the first place, their faith. They wanted to change the world. And their faith kept them together. But by chance, Dylan was born.
Kee: [picks up another photo] This is him?
Jasper: Yeah, that's him. He'd have been about your age. Magical child. Beautiful. Their faith put in praxis.
Miriam: "Praxis"? What happened?
Jasper: Chance. He was their sweet little dream. He had little hands, little legs, little feet. Little lungs. And in 2008, along came the flu pandemic. And then, by chance, he was gone. You see, Theo's faith lost out to chance. So, why bother if life's going to make its own choices?
Kee: Baby's got Theo's eyes.
Jasper: Yeah.
Miriam: Oh, boy. That's terrible. But, you know, everything happens for a reason.
Jasper: That, I don't know. But Theo and Julian would always bring Dylan. He loved it here.
-- Miriam -
[on tape]
Edward Bell Wilson Jr.: Everything is a secret.
Miriam: You were brought up on secrets. What was such a big secret that his own son couldn't know?
Edward Bell Wilson Jr.: He was standing outside talking. I heard something I wasn't supposed to, and he knew I listened to his conversation. I heard them say something in Spanish: Bahia de Cochinos.
Miriam: Bahia de Cochinos.
Edward Bell Wilson Jr.: I'm afraid of him.
Miriam: You're safe here with me. People who really love each other don't have secrets. I have something to tell you.
[Tape mutes down]
Edward Bell Wilson Jr.: I love you so much, I love you so much.
-- Miriam -
[first lines, which are repeated with repeated playings of the surveillance video to Edward Jr]
Miriam: You are safe here with me.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Take down the vacancy that says "Emily's ghost is welcome here". You got to do the hard stuff. Got to clean out closets and get on with your life without her.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Have you personally, had any experience with Emily since her death?
Joe Darrow: You know the answer as well as I do, of course I haven't.
Miriam: And why haven't you?
Joe Darrow: Because I haven't gone half way to Heaven and she has no way of reaching me. I know it sounds crazy.
Miriam: I know, and aren't you the guy, who doesn't believe in Heaven?
-- Miriam -
Optio: We're looking for the family recently arrived from Egypt. Gone to Jerusalem for Passover. Is the boy with them?
Old Sarah: We have many boys in our family. The boy born in Bethlehem. The boy who's seven. If my memory serves, all the boys that age born in Bethlehem were slaughtered by Herod's soldiers. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps they were Roman soldiers.
Miriam: Perhaps they seek a boy because they ran out of girls.
-- Miriam -
[last lines]
Eliza: [narrating as she walks off stage] My father told me once that I could reach the ear of God. That words and letters would guide me to reach beyond myself; to know the world as whole again. And like the ancient mystics, God will flow through me. And we would be together.
Miriam: [watching her on television] She's my daughter.
[crying, laughing]
-- Miriam -
Miriam: -Be careful that you don't go so far out that you can't find your way back.
Tom: -What if I don't want to get back?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Did we go sailing?
Catharine Deane: Almost! Mocky-Lock showed up.
Miriam: [saying a nursery rhyme] Mocky-Lock is the boogeyman, Mocky-Lock wants me where I am!
Catharine Deane: Mocky-Lock is a pain in the ass.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: [about Edward's parents] It's a good thing she worships you.
Catharine Deane: Because he hates me?
Miriam: I wouldn't say hate. Distrusts, dislikes immensely, can't bear the sight of.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: I think we should have a great big weddin'; you get so many more presents that way.
Pam Charters: You'll have to help me write the thank-you letters!
Miriam: Why - can't you write?
-- Miriam -
Miriam: May I?
[Pulls postcards out of Maxine's hands]
Maxine: They're just my impressions of the Camp.
Miriam: Listen, Maxine, there ain't no j in gorgeous. No kidding.
Maxine: Well, the people I'm sending them to won't know the difference anyway.
Miriam: See you later.
Maxine: So will I.
-- Miriam -
Miriam: Honestly, you must get a lot of pleasure out of making me feel unnecessary.
Buzzy Armbruster: Oh, button the lip and and give me the body.
-- Miriam
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