House of Cards - Season 1

"There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that's only suffering. I have no patience for useless things."

Zoe Barnes: "Okay, so you think when a woman asks to be treated with respect, that's arrogance?"
Tom Hammerschmidt: "Are you accusing me of sexism?"
Zoe Barnes: "Just making an observation."
Tom Hammerschmidt: "No TV for a month."
Zoe Barnes: "What?"
Tom Hammerschmidt: "You heard me. No interviews."
Zoe Barnes: "That's completely unfair."
Tom Hammerschmidt: "You want to make it no TV indefinitely?"

Russo: "I don't believe in God... heaven, hell, none of it."
Doug Stamper: "Too much Catholic school?"

"Every time I've spoken to you, you've never spoken back, although given our mutual disdain, I can't blame you for the silent treatment. Perhaps I'm speaking to the wrong audience. Can you hear me? Are you even capable of language, or do you only understand depravity? Peter, is that you? Stop hiding in my thoughts and come out. Have the courage in death that you never had in life. Come out, look me in the eye and say what you need to say. There is no solace above or below. Only us - small, solitary, striving, battling one another. I pray to myself, for myself."

Linda Vasquez: "I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed."
Francis Underwood: "The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances."

"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."

"I never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn."