Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To ...have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d'you get back? I ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of... it, I didn't see you at the surrender. Ethan Edwards: Don't believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare, neither.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Pawley: Do ya think maybe's there's a chance we still might find her? Ethan Edwards: Injun'll chase a thing 'til he th...inks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end. I promise ya. We'll find 'em, just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lars Jorgensen: It's this country killed my boy. Yes, by golly, I tell you Ethan-- Mrs. Jorgensen: Now Lars. It just so happe...ns we be Texicans. A Texican is nothing but a human man way out on a limb, this year, and next, maybe for a hundred more. But I don't think it'll be forever. Someday this country's going to be a fine good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't want no money from you Ethan, no money, Marty. Just a roof over old Mose head and a rocking chair by the fire, my own rockin...g chair by the fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »