Henry Rollins Quotes

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

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• I have never believed in the impossible.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Never
  • Impossible
  • Believed

• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Best
  • Editor

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Mind
  • Wear

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Meat

• My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Weakness
  • Too Much
  • Leopard

• I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fighting
  • Like
  • Fighter

• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Integrity
  • Own

• I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Day

• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Visualize

• How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Power

• Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Way
  • Impossible
  • Please

• Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Poison

• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Lonely
  • Going Away
  • Forsaking

• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Firsts
  • Stuff
  • Exciting

• There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Fighting
  • Impossible