Top 100 Quotes About Patton
#1. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Bill O'Reilly
#2. God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton
Scott Middlemist
#3. At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.
Andrew Roberts
#4. For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
Zakk Wylde
#5. Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.
Jean Edward Smith
#6. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.
George S. Patton Jr.
#7. I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola
#8. Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
Simon Sinek
#9. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#10. My mother was a Jewish General Patton.
Don Rickles
#11. Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.
Bill O'Reilly
#12. She wants me to take out Patton."
Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?"
"No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.
Holly Black
#13. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton,
David Baldacci
#14. If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.
Bob Dylan
#15. Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The
Bill O'Reilly
#16. Live for something rather than die for nothing.
- George Patton
Cindy Gerard
#17. My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jerry Hall
#18. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.
Bobby Jindal
#19. There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
George S. Patton
#20. Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton
Bill O'Reilly
#21. My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
John Zorn
#22. There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.
Joel Siegel
#23. A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.
Bill O'Reilly
#24. It's so dark," Patton says. "So late." He closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.
Bill O'Reilly
#25. The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more.
... George S. Patton
George S. Patton Jr.
#26. Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
Bill Mauldin
#27. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)
Thad Forester
#28. General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, "Seventh Army didn't cause that destruction, did it, sir?" The man replied, "No sir, that happened in the last war." "What war was that?" "The Second Punic War."5
Robert M. Edsel
#29. Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
Tim Cahill
#30. When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?
Andrei Cherny
#31. I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'
Al Madrigal
#32. Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.
Ayelet Waldman
#33. Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.
Tom Franklin
#34. As the Battle of Normandy raged, the Germans held fast to the illusion, so carefully planted and now so meticulously sustained, that a great American army under Patton was preparing to pounce and the German forces in the Pas de Calais must remain in place to repel it.
Ben Macintyre
#35. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton
Lee Child
#36. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton
Gary Keller
#37. Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.
Jean Edward Smith
#38. In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
Edward Albert
#39. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
Meghan Markle
#40. The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Francis Ford Coppola
#41. I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.
Greg Behrendt
#42. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. - George S. Patton
Luke Smitherd
#43. I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.
Greg Behrendt
#44. Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label].
Killer Mike
#45. I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy.
Brian Posehn
#46. I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.
Addison Timlin
#47. High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton. If you have a hard time making out the lyrics, you're not alone - even Son House (who, along with Howlin' Wolf, was influenced by Patton)
Tom Franklin
#48. As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton
Winston Groom
#49. There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.
Michael Showalter
#50. The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack. At Chancellorsville, Lee was asked why he attacked when he was outnumbered three to one. He said he was too weak to defend. - GEORGE PATTON
Jeff Shaara
#51. Mike Patton is a genius ... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
Dave Lombardo
#52. General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Victor Davis Hanson
#53. I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
Ed Royce
#54. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
George S. Patton
#55. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton
#56. Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
Patton Oswalt
#57. A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
George S. Patton Jr.
#58. Expecting people to read your mind hardly ever gets you what you desire.
Sue Patton Thoele
#59. Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing!
Ripley Patton
#60. Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.
Patton Oswalt
#61. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#62. War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
George S. Patton
#63. I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.
Patton Oswalt
#64. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
#65. Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'
Patton Oswalt
#66. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
George S. Patton
#67. First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.
Paula Patton
#68. I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
Patton Oswalt
#69. In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Patton Oswalt
#70. I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
Paula Patton
#71. I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
George S. Patton
#72. All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton
#73. On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.
Candice Patton
#74. I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
Patton Oswalt
#76. One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.
Patton Oswalt
#77. Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Patton Oswalt
#78. Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
George S. Patton Jr.
#79. If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.
Mike Patton
#81. Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.
Sue Patton Thoele
#83. I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.
Paula Patton
#86. If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.
Patton Oswalt
#87. Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a bit of an insight on what was on the inside.
Lindsay Patton
#88. If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
George S. Patton Jr.
#89. 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.
Patton Oswalt
#90. I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.
George S. Patton
#91. To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.
Frances Gray Patton
#93. Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Patton Oswalt
#96. I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
Patton Oswalt
#97. Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
George S. Patton
#99. Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.
Patton Oswalt
#100. If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
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