Ray Velcoro Quotes

My powers of influence are so meager in this sublunar world of ours, I try to limit the people I can disappoint. And I make sure to know the difference between my obligations and somebody else’s.

Loyalty’s important and usually painful.

Pain is inexhaustible. It’s only people that get exhausted.

We get the world we deserve.

Key on my eyes, dip****. See if I’m whistling Dixie. If they don’t give you life, I will have every inch of your flesh removed with a cheese grater starting with your prick. I’ll cut off your nose and your lips. Your nuts, too. And I’ll make sure you live. Hell, they give you life, I might do it anyway.

I welcome judgment.

I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore.

A turn here, a turn there, and it goes on for years. Becomes something else. I’m sorry, you know, for the man I became, the father I was. I hope you got the strength to learn from that. And I hope you got no doubts how much I loved you, son. And you’re better than me. If I had been stronger, I would have been more like you. Hell, son, if everyone was stronger, they’d be more like you.

Sometimes a good beating provokes personal growth.

Everybody’s got the one option, you want it bad enough.

Better to walk before they make you run.