#pat

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#knocking #lawmakers #our #pathetic #pitiful

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#call #cologne #exercise #fortune #going

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. ↗

— David Sylvian

#anticipate #approached #artists #ask #because

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#irish #language #like #soothing

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#capacity #greater #our #our time #patience

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#god #going #good #i #i think

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#brain #controlled #correlation #different #different parts

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ↗