St. Patrick Quotes

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.

It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

It’s not over if you’re still here, ” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset, ” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.

Her mouth set. "I've already lost one man I loved tonight. I will not lose the other." She glared at him. "And curse you, you stone head, for making me say it first.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Death is not the end.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

You be as angry as you need to be, " she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and

If you can't stomach an ending, don't begin.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Hav

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?

A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

Let the sounds of nature amplify your vibrations of peace.

True human connection is found at the level of pure consciousness.

But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.

And you can't know it, because to know it is to be it, and to be it is to not be you.

There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.

Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.