Daniel Rand (Earth-616)/Quotes

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If a man ceases to exist -- how long will his memory survive him?

—Marvel Team-Up Vol 1 31

Do not force me to battle you, officers of the law. For I am blameless of any wrongdoing and would remain so.

—Marvel Premiere Vol 1 22

Though I'm beginning to wonder if this foul concoction even contains real water.

—Iron Fist Vol 1 8

My way of life was instilled in K'un-Lun as well -- I regret you cannot understand!

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 52

Yes .. I like it -- Partners!

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 54

Hey, Mr. Cage, Can I have your autograph?

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 55

Luke, do you need my -- -- help? No, I guess not.

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 62

Uh, Luke, do they sell pizza in Florida?

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 70

We're going to settle this between ourselves man to man, with no minions ... and no fancy toys!

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 72

Self pity and a defeatist attitude will hurt your progress a lot more than ill health does.

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 79

But I should warn you, I studied martial arts for 10 years in the lost city of K'un-Lun.

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 86

...Please Luke... Try to stay calm... Try to stay patient...

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 116

No! It's happening! I'm too late! It's K'un Lun! The cities are merging!

—Iron Fist: Wolverine Vol 1 1

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

—Civil War Vol 1 5

Yeah, yeah, Hydra is legion. But when was the last time you faced a dragon?

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 1

Oh! My name is Daniel Rand. I am Iron Fist and I know kung fu. Hi-yahh.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 2

C'mon, old man. I'm not going down without a fight.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 3

Great, Orson, so you learned your kung fu from Lei Kung and Smith & Wesson?

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 4

"I'm a superhero, Orson. I have to get from Point A to Point B fast and I can't fly. So I have real estate."

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 5

What -- what does this mean?

—New Avengers Vol 1 31

I can hear the sweat running down your cheek.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 9

There is a lot going on here. I get that. But I have a responsibility to the other worlds, too. There are parts of the Book of the Iron Fist that are unwritten. And right now, I'm the only guy with the pen.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 20

This was the city where all of my nightmares were set, since I was a little boy. I'd never been here before, but I knew it intimately.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 22

The truth is the only thing that matters. I've lived through Hell because of a lie, and it stops here.

—Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1 26

Your old mentor has given you a clear ultimatum. This mess we're in today, the one you created by stealing this eye from its rightful owner... He said, and I believe him, that this fight we had today -- this was just a taste. This was just a sampler. So I'm going to ask you again, Stephen... Whose is this, really?!

—New Avengers Vol 2 4

I made my choice a long time ago. I stood in front of the tree of life and traded away the fruit of immortality for vengeance. So why has it started to feel like I'm still stuck in eternity? Is this my penance? My purgatory? Are all of the other poor souls just to scared to admit we've fallen into a lake of fire? So why can't I feel the heat? Pills won't help me sleep. So I try something else. I tell myself I earn it. But it's just an exercise of forms. One cold, dead thing imitating another. Training. Regime. Routine. I stare out the window and the dead corpse of my father stares back. A grave maker in a field of 8.25 million dead souls. I remember the screaming. I thought it was my mother at first. And then I thought it was myself. A high-pitched desperate skrill. It wasn't either of us. I remember seeing my father for the first time just then. For what he truly was. He wasn't afraid of dying. How could he be? He was already gone. A dead man walking in my father's skin. The look in his eyes said it all. He was insane. had been for a long time. And then he was... I have my father's eyes. That's what she would tell me. Before she kissed me on the cheek and tucked me in for bed. She smelled like rose petals. Like baby powder in the rain. And she loved me because I had the eyes of a madman. We all chose, didn't we. We all chose to pretend... To ignore... We chose to see what we wanted to... Not what was really there. I'm so sick of choosing. I've been avoiding the past for so long... Afraid that if I was to turn around... I'd see what was coming for me.

—Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Vol 1 1

The monk shouldn't be here. K'un-Lun appears on Earth once every ten years. The next cycle isn't due for some time. When I left, I was told I wouldn't be able to return for a decade. But like so much of what I was told, it was a lie. There is a way back. And it's here in this very building. Just down the elevator. All the way down... Twelve stories underneath a seventy-two floor skyscraper... Four city blocks across a labyrinth of underground access tunnels... And I find myself underneath Rand Tower. If this building was a tombstone, this would be its buried corpse. Nineteenth century engineering, kept running through pristine neglect. There are a lot of questions that come with a device like this. I'm sure there are answers. I'm sure there are lies. It's been so hard to tell the difference, I've stopped asking. My father had no idea the doorway to K'un-Lun was literally at his feet. If he did, maybe they wouldn't have had to die. Cold. Death is cold.

—Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Vol 1 2

My name is Danniel Rand. After watching my parents murdered in cold blood, I was taken in by mystical monks. They protected me the only way they knew how. They turned fear into rage. To focus my rage, they promised vengeance. They turned me into a living weapon. Trained for ten years for the sole purpose of returning to Earth and killing Harold Meachum in the name of my dead mother and father. And then they acted surprised when I left. I returned to the world of men and found Meachum waiting for me in Rand Tower. A paraplegic, reeking of bourbon and fear. In essence, he was already dead. Guilt, reject and terror had already taken him. I looked into his hollow eyes. It was like looking into nothingness. I had become a weapon without a target. A worthless exercise. A lie. My fist wasn't forged in iron... But irony. An orphan of two worlds. Two families. Stuck in that place in-between. Now, where's a good place to catch up? Should I start with the metal monster standing over me? My dead father's face bolted onto it like a cheap Halloween mask... Or should I begin with the broken mess of bones I once called fists? My chi, the source of my power, cut off at the source.

—Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Vol 1 5

We'll find 'em, and we'll get out of here. You can believe that. My partner is working on that right this very minute.

—Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 3 8

Lady... you had me at "kung fu tournament." When do we start?

—Iron Fist Vol 5 2

You couldn't go undercover for S.H.I.E.L.D. and still tell your husband?

—Jessica Jones Vol 2 7

Cool. They brought me here to kill me and steal the Chi of Shou-Lao the Undying so they can invade K'un-Lun. I mean... I guess that's what I get for following some random dude I met at the bar back to a mystical kung fu island no one's ever heard of.

—Iron Fist Vol 5 4

You didn't come to Earth to learn how to use your fists. You came here to learn how not to.

—Immortal Iron Fists Vol 1 1

Great! Who put a contract on me this time?

—Iron Fist Vol 5 6

Listen, I don't know what Choshin's paying you to come at me like this... but I hope it's worth the beating I'm going to bring down on you -- no matter how many of your brainwashed zombies you try to put between yourself and me.

—Iron Fist Vol 5 7

Creed, you sure you want to do this? Every time we've done this, I've beaten you. Every. Time.

—Iron Fist Vol 1 73

Pei... remember your teachings. Wherever you are, trust in your training. Believe in yourself. But don't fight for yourself. Fight for your friends. For the ones you love.

—Immortal Iron Fists Vol 1 6

So, I guess that's the way we're going? Bar brawling with a bunch of z-grade baddies?

—Iron Fist Vol 1 74

I'm not looking to get out of this fight. Just wanted you to know what's going to happen after I kick your ass.

—Iron Fist Vol 1 77

The thing that annoys me the most about you, Robbins... is you use objects of ancient and dangerous power and you have no clue what it is you're messing with.

—Defenders Vol 5 10

But they're right. My mother, father and sister... even you... all died for me. Me living means someone dies. I can't let that happen anymore.

—Iron Fist Vol 1 78

Who am I now? What am I without my fist?

—Iron Fist - Marvel Digital Original Vol 1 1

It wasn't my time to punch the clock.

—Iron Fist - Marvel Digital Original Vol 1 2

We had a deal, Yama. I bring you Mo Wang, and you put everyone he's infected right again, including the boy he was possessing. I want him back. Now.

—Iron Fist - Marvel Digital Original Vol 1 3

I know you can hear everything. Listen to your body for once.

—Man Without Fear Vol 1 3

Super hero life can be a lonely existence at times. Sure, there're friends in the community that you see now and then. But it's not like there's super hero company picnics or Avengers-sponsored bowling nights. For the most part, you are out there by yourself doing your own thing. For the most part, the only time you see each other is when the really bad stuff is going down. But sometimes, just sometimes... you're there for the good stuff too. And those are the best parts.

—Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors Vol 1 3

This is the Caveman Avengers thing again, yeah? You know I've read every chapter of the Book of the Iron Fist. There's nothing in there about any Stone Age defender of K'un-Lun. But I'll tell ya... there's sure an awful lot about that big, fiery space bird that just came back to Earth. About the Phoenix. And most all of it's bad.

—Avengers Vol 8 38

"Heroes" are very different on Earth, your radiance. They are not of a single mind, nor all so pure of heart.

—Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon Vol 1 2

I am the Iron Fist. I hold back the storm when nothing else can.

—Daniel Rand (Earth-616)

When Davos was a child he knew his destiny was great. He didn't understand why no one else recognized his potential. Not the Yu-Ti. Not the Thunderer, his own father. At every turn he's been held back. Is it a wonder he has a problem with authority? He takes what little they have to offer. These insect. These ants. He rips their life force from their bodies and heals his wounds. Flesh bubbles closed. Blood coagulates. Bones fuse. He takes it all so that he may stand while they fall. If he had enough of it, the Chi of Shou-Lao... could he heal his heart, too? And if he was simply given the love he needed in the first place... but K'un-Lun was never a place for love. All it offered was fire and blood. Can you blame him for accepting?

—Davos (Earth-616)

The sky goes red as a troupe of marionettes is pulled off the stage. And through it all, father's watching me. With those crazy eyes. I couldn't bring myself to repair Rand Tower. Engineers declared it structurally sound enough to keep standing. Maybe one day I'll be ready to bring it down. But for now... I'll leave it alone a little while longer. A reminder of--