Doctor Who

"Doctor: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers, are you feeling lucky, are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest, who's going to be luckiest? Kate: This is not a game! Doctor: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely. Bonnie: Why are you doing this? Kate: Yes I'd quite like to know that too. You set this up. Why? Doctor: Because it's not a game, Kate! This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought, right there in front of you! Because it's always the same! When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn, how many hearts will be broken, how many lives shattered, how much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning, SIT! DOWN! AND! TALK! Listen to me, listen, I just- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind. Bonnie: I will not change my mind. Doctor: Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you could walk right out of that door, and you could stand your revolution down. Bonnie: No. I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it, I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go after what I've done? Doctor: You're all the same, you screaming kids, you know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable," well here's the unforeseeable: I forgive you! After all you've done, I forgive you. Bonnie: You don't understand. You will never understand! Doctor: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. I mean, you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war. I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know! I did worse things than you could ever imagine! WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight, 'till it burns your hand, and you say this: No one else will ever have to live like this. No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch."

"It's funny, the day you lose someone isn't the worst. At least you've got something to do. It's all the days they stay dead."

"I'm not scared of hell. It's just heaven for bad people."

"How long can I keep doing this, Clara? Burning the old me to make a new one?"

"Go to the city. Find somebody important. Tell them I'm back. Tell them I know what they did, and I'm on my way. And if they ask you who I am, tell them "I came the long way around." You can probably still hear me. So just between ourselves, you got the prophecy wrong. The hybrid is not half-Dalek- nothing is half-Dalek, the Daleks would never allow that. The hybrid destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins... is me."

"Grant: Who're you thanking? Doctor: The universe. There's somebody worse at this than me."

"What do the rich old men always do when the fighting starts? They'll find the safest place to hide themselves away and send away all their young people to die."

"You don't steer the TARDIS, you negotiate with it."

"Bill: You know what I mean? Every choice I make here in this moment, here and now, would change the whole future! Doctor: Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is stop worrying about it."

"Doctor: What makes you so sure your life is worth more than those people out there on the ice? Is it the money? The accident of birth, that puts you inside the big, fancy house. Sutcliffe: I help move this country forward. I move this Empire forward. Doctor: Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy’s value is your value. That’s what defines an age, that’s… what defines a species."

"Bill: Regency England. Bit more black than they show in the movies. Doctor: So was Jesus. History's a whitewash."

"Fear is temporary. Love is slavery."

"You had history! History was saying to you "Look! I've got some examples of fascism here for you to look! No? Fundamentalism? No? Oh, okay, you carry on.""

"Doctor: Humanity is doomed to never learn from its mistakes. Bill: Well, I guess that's part of our charm. Doctor: No. It's really quite annoying."

"Shhh. Does anybody hear that? Do you know what that sound was? ...That was the sound of my patience shattering into a billion little pieces."

"Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out. You and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it’s about? I’m not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone — or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun. God knows it’s not because it's easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind! It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live — maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, maybe there’s no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do. So I'm going to do it, and I will stand here doing it until it kills me. You're going to die, too, someday. When will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?"

"Oh, there it is, silly old universe. The more I save it the more it needs saving. It's a treadmill... Yes, yes I know they'll get it all wrong without me. Well, I suppose one more lifetime won't kill anyone... well, except me. You wait a moment, Doctor! Let's get it right. I've got a few things to say to you. Basic stuff first: never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never-ever eat pears! Remember, hate is always foolish, and love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. Oh, and you mustn't tell anyone your name. No one would understand it anyway... except... except children. Children can hear it, sometimes, if their hearts are in the right place, and the stars are too, children can hear your name. But nobody else. Nobody else, ever. Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. Doctor, I let you go."

"A bit of adrenaline, a dash of outrage and a hint of panic knitted my brain back together again. I know exactly who I am. I’m the Doctor. Sorting out fair play throughout the universe."

"I carry them with me. What they would've thought, said, and done. Make them a part of who I am. So even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from me."

"You had no right to do that."

"Ryan: Can we open it? Doctor: Is the right question!"

"Now we know what our task is. Keep history in order. No changing it. Just guarding it against someone who wants to disrupt it."

"I know there aren't many certainties in any of our lives, but Umbreen, Prem, what I see in you is the certainty of having each other. Something I believe in my faith, love, in all its forms, is the most powerful weapon we have. Because love is a form of hope, and like hope, love abides. In the face of everything, you both found love with each other. You believed in it, you fought for it, and you waited for it. And, now, you're committing to it. Which makes you, right now, the two strongest people on this planet. Maybe in this universe... I'm not sure how we formalize this."

"I know because we are all the same. We want certainty, security. To believe that people are evil or heroic. But that's not how people are. You want to know the secrets of existence? Start with the mysteries of the heart. I can show you everything if you stop being afraid of what you don't understand. If you trust me."

"That creature is a lie, and he debased you and your faith. Don't you see? You were the creators! Look what you can do! You build! But he made you destroyers. That's no god. I'm sorry."

"Dalek: Humanity will surrender. Doctor: They really won't, trust me. I've seen them in action. They've fought off so many things, including the worst of their own people. They're really stubborn. Have you not worked that out yet?"

"Noor: Answer me one question. The fascists, do they win? Doctor: Never. Not while there's people like you."

"I've seen Gallifrey destroyed, twice. First by a war, second by a lunatic who I'm still trying to find. In my time, Gallifrey doesn't exist. It's gone! Forever. And if you don't know that, you're in my past, so you are only serving at the glory of ash and bone."

"His thoughts, his words inspire and influence thousands for centuries. If he dies now, who knows that will have on future history? Words matter! One death, one ripple, and history will change in a blink. The future will not be the world you know. The world you came from, the world you were created in won't exist, so neither will you. It's not just his life at stake, it's yours. You wanna sacrifice yourself for this? You want me to sacrifice you? You want to call it? Do it now. All of you... Yeah. Cause sometimes this team structure isn't flat, it's mountainous, with me at the summit, in the stratosphere, alone. Left to choose. Save the poet, save the universe. Watch people burn now or tomorrow. Sometimes even I can't win."

"Jericho: How did you get in here? Doctor: Your door was open. Jericho: It most certainly was not! Doctor: Well it was once I opened it, but let's not get bogged down in the order of things."

"Yaz, I can't fix myself to anything, anywhere... or anyone. I've never been able to. It's what my life is... Not because I don't want to. Because I might. But if I do fix myself to somebody, I know sooner or later it'll hurt."

"That's the only sad thing: I wanna know what happens next. Right then... Doctor Whoever-I'm-About-To-Be... Tag, you're it."

"I know these teeth. What? What?! What?!"

"I've got this friend called Donna Noble. And she was my best friend in the whole wide universe, I absolutely love her. Oh! Mm, do I say things like that now...? But Donna took the mind of a Time Lord into her head. I had to wipe her memory to save her life. If she remembers me, she will die. So what happens next? I get this face back and the TARDIS lands right next to her. I turn around, there's her husband, and then a spaceship crashes right in front of her, it's like she's drawing us in... She's got no idea. She's so ordinary, she's brilliant! She's got this beautiful daughter, she's happy... Is she? But now the universe is turning around her again. I don't believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble, right now."

"It's funny, cause I wonder where the TARDIS goes at random. Maybe it lands on some outcrop by the sea. There's a tribe, and they worship it for a hundred years. Then they grow up, they try to burn it. Then they get wise, they preserve it. Then they build a city all around it, till the TARDIS is just a tiny little dot, surrounded by skyscrapers and monorails. Time passes, and the city falls, it all gets swept away. And there's the TARDIS, still on its outcrop by the sea. She's the only thing I've got left."

"Funny thing is I fought all those battles for all those years. And now I know what for. This. I've never been so happy in my life."

"Bigeneration! I have bigenerated! There's no such thing -- bigeneration is supposed to be a myth, but... [cracks neck] Look at me!"

"Now, you two, if you don't mind, there is a great big universe out there calling, and I've gotta get going. So off you pop, old man."

"Name: "The Doctor". Occupation: "Not a doctor". Current status: "Just passing by". Employer: "Myself". Address: "That blue box over there". Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home."

"I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes."

"I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much. I've experienced everything."

"I don't care what you think, okay? You can say whatever you want. You can think absolutely anything. I will do anything if you just allow me to save your lives."

"I have toppled worlds. Sometimes, I wait for people to topple their world. Until then, I live in it and I shine."

"Rule 1: The Doctor lies. -The Big Bang 5.13 (26 June 2010), Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"(also) Rule 1: Don't wander off. -The Girl in the Fireplace 2.4 (6 May 2006), The Eleventh Hour 5.1 (3 April 2010)"

"Rule 7: Never run when you're scared. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"Rule 27: Never knowingly be serious. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011)"

"Rule 54: Anything can come from outside of the universe, but nothing can come from before the universe. -The Satan Pit 2.9 (10 June 2006)"

"Rule 408: You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. -Let's Kill Hitler 6.8 (27 August 2011), arguably the rule could be limited to the last sentence."

"He's the Doctor. -Listed as a rule in Dragonfire 24.4 (23 November 1987)[ref], and stated in pretty much every other episode in the last 60 years."