A.A. Allen Quotes
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.
This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.
We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?