Robert Ferrigno Quotes

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I don't try to be perfect. It's the perfect ones that attract suspicion.

A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere.

At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.

No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.

The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

A weak man's always in a hurry to punish somebody, so he can show how tough he is.

Getting older ... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.

God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

You're praying, they're praying, and God, oddly enough, will come down on the side of the one with the most guns and most willing to use them. God always does.

He most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

Pray for victory, plan for disaster.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.

Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.

Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I'm certain of one thing at least. God almighty has a sense of humor.

A man can never have too many friends.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.

Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.

Best place to hide was in a crowd.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we have to know if they're a friend or an enemy.

Time always won the race.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

We're all going to hell anyway, why not enjoy the ride?

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so that someday historians can sit quietly at their desks and act shocked.

Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.

A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.

There was always something worse.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.

The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?

No one in their right mind would attempt to salvage it, but there were plenty of people not in their right mind. The world was full of them, more produced every minute.

Reunification's a fine idea, as long as you get rid of all the people that go to sleep at night praying that God strikes the other side dead,

He had to appreciate a creature that knew what it was doing.

You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.

The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.