A.A. Allen Quotes

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.