Henry Rollins Quotes

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

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• A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Lot
  • Tougher

• There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Children
  • Family
  • Arguing

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Everything

• Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Sea
  • Generation
  • Leave

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Game

• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Whole
  • Rather
  • Ethical

• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Important
  • Know
  • Military

• History develops, art stands still.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Art
  • History
  • Still

• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Pain
  • Desires
  • Poison

• I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Got

• It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Men
  • Nature

• Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

  

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