A.A. Allen Quotes

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it.

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.

Time the devourer of everything.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Being an All-Star is everything.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

Vicodin and vodka the breakfast of champion's.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The definition of success is total preparation.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest.

I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.