A. D. Gordon Quotes

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

There are no hard times for good ideas.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

The Bible consistently denies free will.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

Ask me. I'm a cow expert.