“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”

“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”

“Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.”

“Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.”

“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”

“Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. ”

“O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?”

“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.”

“A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”