Will Patton Quotes

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

I am no one to be a purist.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a “silence bath,” where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

The deeper you dig, the bigger the possibility that something could happen.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

Restraint is the better part of beauty.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

You must do your damdest and win.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.