T.R. Patrick Quotes

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

If you fall, you fall, " Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Give me liberty or give me d

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, " Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

A peace that blacked yer eye, ' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage, ” he says, “in the voice of a hick.

We don't have all the answers. A few months ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now I know sometimes you have to just take life for what it is instead of worrying about what might happen.

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belongI belong with you

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

she is born in the breath of a cloud

And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

You, ” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less.

I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!

You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

What what, " Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.