Top 81 Robert Ferrigno Quotes
#1. Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.
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#2. I don't try to be perfect. It's the perfect ones that attract suspicion.
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#3. A death sentence was a death sentence, no matter how carefully it was worded.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#7. The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
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#8. - Not like God reads minds or anything.
- He better not, or we're all fucked forever.
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#9. Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
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#12. Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.
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#13. Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.
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#14. Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.
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#15. To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.
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#16. You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.
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#19. A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.
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#21. At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.
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#22. It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.
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#24. 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?
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#25. Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.
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#26. 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.
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#27. It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.
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#28. The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.
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#29. He had to appreciate a creature that knew what it was doing.
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#30. Whatever works, that's my philosophy. I don't care if it's magic beans or a prayer cloth dipped in the Jordan River.
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#31. When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory.
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#32. I'm waiting for God to give me a clue. It's a good thing I'm patient.
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#33. A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.
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#35. Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.
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#36. One thing I've learned in a very long life, Mr. Crews, is that there's never enough.
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#37. God didn't play games. He wasn't a co-conspirator. God either hit you hard and fast, and that was that, or he sat back and watched things spool out, laughing all the way out.
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#39. Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.
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#40. Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.
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#41. Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.
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#43. Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.
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#44. You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.
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#45. A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.
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#46. God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.
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#47. A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere.
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#48. If one's enemies know where you are, no matter how well protected you are, you can be gotten.
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#50. If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.
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#51. In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.
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#54. People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.
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#56. The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.
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#57. You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.
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#58. Getting older ... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.
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#59. It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.
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#60. A weak man's always in a hurry to punish somebody, so he can show how tough he is.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm.
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#63. I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.
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#65. People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.
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#66. The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.
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#67. 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.
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#68. You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.
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#69. We're all going to hell anyway, why not enjoy the ride?
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#70. Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.
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#75. 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,
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.
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#79. 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.
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#80. You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.
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#81. Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.
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