Quotes About Pat

#1. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#2. I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Pat Robertson

#3. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Pat Robertson

#4. Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).

Peter Boghossian

#5. [On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Pat Nixon

#6. And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Pat Robertson

#7. Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

Pat Conroy

#8. Hitting is mostly confidence. I just go out and play and that's the best you can ask for.

Pat Burrell

#9. There's the neurotic mother who's so demanding that the sound of her voice over the phone can cause instant nausea in her daughters.

Pat Conroy

#10. The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

Pat Oliphant

#11. Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

Pat Ament

#12. When you are down and you don't know how to pick yourself up, start where you are. I can hear Pat's voice saying the words in my head, "Left foot, right foot, breathe.

Robin Roberts

#13. Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

Pat Paulsen

#14. I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.

Pat Meehan

#15. When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Amity Shlaes

#16. I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Sal Mineo

#17. Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass,

Pat Dye

#18. Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Pat Buchanan

#19. The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

Jeff Bridges

#20. music as we danced our way in both

Pat Conroy

#21. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

Mary Mapes Dodge

#22. When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

Pat Boone

#23. Well?"
"Well, what" she asked.
"Are we gonna do this or not?"
... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so you can pat me on the head and buy me something pretty to shut me up?

Kit Rocha

#24. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

Maggie O'Farrell

#25. I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Pat Bowlen

#26. I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.

Pat LaFontaine

#27. Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

Pat Swindall

#28. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.

Laurence Gonzales

#29. I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

Pat Robertson

#30. There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Pat Metheny

#31. Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me.

Pat Conroy

#32. In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

Pat Boone

#33. You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you
take a gun and shoot him.

Pat Robertson

#34. It's the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

Arthur Gordon

#35. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Pat Robertson

#36. Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

Pat Condell

#37. In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.

Pat Riley

#38. John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.

Tim Pat Coogan

#39. We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

Pat Summitt

#40. Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Pat Summitt

#41. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

Pat Riley

#42. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

#43. There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

Pat Benatar

#44. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

Pat Toomay

#45. You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you've got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

Pat Robertson

#46. Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

Pat Robertson

#47. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Pat Conroy

#48. If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

Jerry Pinkney

#49. Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Dennis Miller

#50. Beneath the great sisterhood of stars unfurling in the night sky ...

Pat Conroy

#51. I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

Pat Paulsen

#52. Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.

Pat Williams

#53. Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

Pat Buchanan

#54. We risk becoming so commonplace to the men we've thrown our lots in with who can't see us anymore, and who pat the sofa when they mean to pat our knee.

Helen Oyeyemi

#55. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.

Pat Williams

#56. Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Pat Barker

#57. Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Pat Brown

#58. Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

Pat Croce

#59. It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Pat Morita

#60. Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.

Pat Rodegast

#61. But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Pat Robertson

#62. The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

Pat Brown

#63. Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Pat Conroy

#64. Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

River Phoenix

#65. I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate

Pat Buchanan

#66. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy

#67. A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass.

Geri Halliwell

#68. When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

Pat Buchanan

#69. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

Pat Conroy

#70. It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

Pat Boone

#71. I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

Pat Buckley

#72. Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.

Pat Condell

#73. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.

Pat Barker

#74. A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments.

Pat Conroy

#75. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Pat Metheny

#76. Putting words onto paper - when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection - is a holy act.

Pat Schneider

#77. I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Pat Buckley

#78. Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Pat Buckley

#79. Son, you can do more good at Yamacraw than you could ever do in the Peace Corps. And you would be helping Americans, Pat. And I, for one, think it's very important to help Americans.

Pat Conroy

#80. Rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Elizabeth Bowen

#81. I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

#82. You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.

Pat McBride

#83. The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism ...

Pat Robertson

#84. If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?

Pat Paulsen

#85. I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Pat Summerall

#86. A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Pat Conroy

#87. Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

Pat Robertson

#88. I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Pat Summitt

#89. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

John McCain

#90. You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

John Wooden

#91. It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.

Pat Conroy

#92. When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

Pat Metheny

#93. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

#94. I saved you," Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be reminded of the basic rules of the universe. To wit: Gravity exists. Time purports to flow in a linear fashion, but it's only trying to fool us. I saved you.

Alex Gabriel

#95. Look eye! Always look eye!

Pat Morita

#96. I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games.

Andrew Luck

#97. If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood ... Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

Pat Sajak

#98. The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,

Pat Robertson

#99. Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

Bobby Knight

#100. You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Pat Summitt