T.R. Patrick Quotes

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I love everything about you that hurts.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.

I'm not a very fast-paced person.

I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know?

And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Babies laughing is like opium.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things.

I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'