"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "

"Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort."

and finally...

"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."

Henry Rollins.

Nice Dark

particularly like the one about impressing the Gods!

Quote:

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

John C. Maxwell

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“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

A couple more from Mr.Rollins...

“I don't want to know. I don't need it. I don't want the information that millions of people have. I don't want to be fed these boring facts and figures. Then you'll become one of the masses. I'd rather starve my mind a bit and have to search out nutrition in stranger places.”


...and one that holds a special significance for me,which i read several years ago...bringing on one of those "light bulb moments"

“You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it's a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!”

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." --Harriet Rubin

Only the insane have strength enough to prosper, only those that prosper can truly judge what is sane.

"This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." -- John Steinbeck

"you've got eyes like a shit house rat!"

Ok guys have a guess who this quote is from...

'What is best in life? To crush your enemies and see them fall at your feet, to take his horse's and his goods, to hear the lamentation of his women. That is best'

Ghenghis Kahn. And Conan the barbarian.

Nice you got both sources, well done. :-)

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

Hmmm ...Stalin - smart quote, yet very scary .....

This I like:

"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards." ~Sir William Francis Butler~