Gene Robinson Quotes

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.