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William B. Davis Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It is a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity, the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 11: My Struggle III
Tagged: Doubt, Failure, Imagination, stupidity, Science, Tools
“You see a man lying here, a seemingly weak man, but I’m the most powerful man in the world.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Weak, Powerful, Contradictions
“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Talitha Cumi
Tagged: X-Files, Science, Religion
“I just changed the timetable. Everyone still dies in the end.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Death, timetable
“I didn’t set out to destroy the world, Mulder. People did.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Destruction, Malice
“I’ve controlled you since before you knew I existed.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Control
“The world will go on. Just in my image instead of God’s.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: World, blasphemy
“We have a small problem. They’ve reopened the X-Files.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Problem
“Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Weakness, Cigarettes
“You want the truth, Agent Mulder? You’ve come to the right place.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: Babylon
Tagged: Truth
“That which makes miracles, can also make great evil.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 7: En Ami
Tagged: X-Files, Evil, Miracles
“That’s the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster, when the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. We refuse to imagine our impending extinction, the acceleration of the cataclysms. We’ve thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion and cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths. Civilization a joke, and my plan merely the punch line.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 11: My Struggle III
Tagged: New World, disaster, extinction, Science, scandal, civilization
“Life... is like a box of chocolates - A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, and the taste is... fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.”
— The Cigarette-Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 4: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Tagged: X-Files, Life, Chocolates
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