Henry Rollins Quotes

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I also know that it's not about me, it's about all of you and it's about our country, I know that, I fully understand that. That's why I got involved. It's about all of us together as a country. It's a movement the likes of which we have never in history in this country seen before, never in history. Even the pundits, even the media - that truly dislikes Donald Trump for their own reasons - will admit this is a movement the likes of which people have never seen before.

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

Easy lives make boring people and things have definitely not been easy.