- Shane: What makes you so sure I won't shoot you?
- Rufe Ryker: Well, if I was a miner had to work around nitroglycerine every day, don't you think I'd make it my business to know just how to handle it? To know what makes it go off? You're the nitroglycerine in my valley, Shane. I think I know you pretty well.
- Rufe Ryker: It's round-up time, Shane! Don't you read your Bible? It ain't the sheep in the fold you worry about, it's the lost ones you go lookin' for.
- Marian Starett: Shane, ever since you've been here you've been, I don't know, like some wild thing penned up, always hankering to get back to the wild ones again. Well, now you're going. And I truly hope you'll be happy. But be honest about it. Don't feel noble. If you sell that gun, it's not to help some poor widowed farmer to feed a fatherless boy, it's because you want to. It's because deep down inside you have to. And because at heart you're a killer!
- Shane: That's all it is, Johnny, a range war. I've been down that road too many times not to know each landmark.