T.R. Patrick Quotes

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

You could be your own spotlight!

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.