Harry Patch Quotes

#1. Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

Trevor Dunn

#2. When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Alex Trebek

#3. War is nothing but organized murder.

Harry Patch

#4. A contained feeling not expressed will end up disappearing one day. It's the same as seeing a dream, it will never become reality.

Shoko Hidaka

#5. I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends ... It wasn't worth it.

Harry Patch

#6. Being baldplate is an unfailing sex magnet.

Telly Savalas

#7. War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

Harry Patch

#8. When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

#9. And he is immortal.

Josephine Angelini

#10. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman

#11. The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

Hakim Bey

#12. Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.

Harry Patch

#13. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.

Harry Haskell

#14. A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

Charley Pride

#15. War is organized murder and nothing else

Harry Patch

#16. At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'

Jessica Pare

#17. I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.

Harry Patch

#18. Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

J.K. Rowling

#19. She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

Clare Mulley

#20. This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Natan Sharansky

#21. I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

Julia Kent

#22. I'm gay."
"Oh. Of course." Immediately, Martin regretted saying "of course". He should have acted surprised. People are flattered if you act surprised when they come out, something Martin thought was stupid and vaguely homophobic but...

Marshall Thornton

#23. Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs

#24. Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#25. But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!

Steven Erikson