Classic Tough Guy Quotes & Sayings

Pain is the result of ignorance. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it
you can't teach it. — William Faulkner

In the end,
The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on
and gained by those who let go. — Lao-Tzu

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. — Vladimir Lenin

The dice are stacked against them — Theo Foley

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. — Shalom Harlow

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell

I was just looking up the definition for eviscerate. It says here, to remove the internal organs or entrails of a person or an animal. I'm thinking maybe when Daniel gets back that might be a fitting punishment? — Frankie Rose

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. — Jim Harrison

Choosing Luther and Calvin instead of the spiritual reformers who were their contemporaries, Protestant Europe got the kind of theology it liked. But it also got, along with other unanticipated by-products, the Thirty Years' War, capitalism and the first rudiments of modern Germany. If — Aldous Huxley

Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day. In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa. But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop. — Nicholas Lea