T.R. Patrick Quotes
Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.
Nothing wrong with believing good things will happen.And if it doesn't, there's always whiskey.
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the other way around.
Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.
Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey.Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice.
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.
But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.
Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.
If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.
A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.
Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.
When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.
Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.
A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.
He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.
Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.
She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.
Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
Ego is the ultimate killer on a team
The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own.
There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".
Might-have-been are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.
Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.
We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.
The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.
There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.
Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.
What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
Life in a box was unbearable.How did humans stand it?
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.
My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I’d believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.
Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other regions.
What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.