A.G. Howard Quotes

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Who asks a king for a penny?

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.

What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

There's no place like home, there's no place like home

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

I'm the munter of my friends. I've got wonky teeth and a lazy eye. My friend Rob is disgusted I'm a heart-throb.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.