A. D. Gordon Quotes

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

The customer is always right.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I think perception is important.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!