Constable Fitzpatrick Quotes & Sayings

Trials come. Tribulation comes. Fires of refinement come. The purpose of refinement is to bring to light the things hidden in darkness and then remove them — Robin Bertram

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple. — Sarah Dessen

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide. — Andrew Davidson

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him ... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed. — Henry David Thoreau

I never listen to music when I'm writing. — Ben Fountain

Kate Gompert's always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that used to have affective content. Terms the undepressed toss around and take for granted as full and fleshy - happiness, joie de vivre, preference, love - are stripped to their skeletons and reduced to abstract ideas. They have, as it were, denotation but not connotation. The anhedonic can still speak about happiness and meaning et al., but she has become incapable of feeling anything in them, of understanding anything about them, of hoping anything about them, or of believing them to exist as anything more than concepts. Everything becomes an outline of the thing. Objects become schemata. The world becomes a map of the world. An anhedonic can navigate, but has no location. I.e. the anhedonic becomes, in the lingo of Boston AA, Unable To Identify. — David Foster Wallace

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's. — Dick Vitale

And now I'm at home on a laptop again, typing out stuff for this chapter that you are reading right now, possibly on a screen as well! — Aziz Ansari

A science must deal with a subject and its properties. — Aristotle.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold! — Douglas MacArthur

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today - when it meant so little. — Erich Maria Remarque

The house was full of murmuring voices. I could practically feel each room getting choked with the hot breath of other people. — Adam Rapp

I am one for whom dangers are play-
things
One who empties men of their
strength as a nut from its shell
The charms you use I chop up for
relish on my porridge
Beware! I am a deadly mamba
Wrestler of legends
A hive of hornets
A man among men — Nancy Farmer

Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow. — Nick Woodman