Patch Adams Quotes

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Good
  • Like
  • Gems

• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Want
  • Stand
  • Strangers

• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Church

• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Political
  • Authority
  • Rights

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Force
  • Labor
  • Participation

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Child
  • Sister

• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Love
  • Made

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Way
  • Food

• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Yoga

• The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Value
  • Trouble
  • Throne

• The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Canvas

• A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Clothes

• Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Clothes
  • Turn
  • Park