A.A. Allen Quotes

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.

The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end'. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.

I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.