T.R. Patrick Quotes

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

Give me liberty or give me death.

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Where the terror is, you must go.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

As the family goes, so go the children.

The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

I would never play in England in another shirt other than Arsenal's.

I'd hate wearing suits every day.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.