Best Dialogues from Person Of Interest

Here are some of my favorite dialogues from the (2011-2016) TV series Person Of Interest by Jonathan Nolan. 

 

"If you really need a mystery, I recommend the human heart."

 

"Not everything that’s broken is meant to be fixed."

"If they don’t want you to get inside, they ought to build it better."

"Set out to correct the world’s wrongs and you’ll almost certainly wind up adding to them."

"You can’t make something right by doing something wrong."

"Obstacles are only obstacles until you move them out of the way."

"No one ever said we were gonna win, but it doesn’t mean you stop fighting."

"Sometimes your mistakes can surprise you."

"When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different. Someone better. When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?"

"Your mistakes, like mine, are a part of who you are now. You can't move on from that. Believe me, I've made a sizable number. But... sometimes your mistakes can surprise you. My biggest mistake, for instance, brought me here. At exactly this moment when you might need some help."

"Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and this is just the beginning; it keeps on going, forever, without ever repeating. This means that contained within this string of decimals, is every single other number. Your birth date, combination to your locker, your social security number, it's all in there, somewhere. And if you convert these decimals into letters, you would have every word that ever existed in every possible combination; the first syllable you spoke as a baby, the name of your latest crush, your entire life story from beginning to end, everything we ever say or do; all of the world's infinite possibilities rest within this one simple circle. Now what you do with that information; what it's good for, well that would be up to you."

"You asked me to teach you chess and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. And through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little, and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're gonna have to make. And one day I'll be gone, and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this: Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces, and you can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me, not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess deserves to lose."