A.G. Howard Quotes

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

An indictment is not a conviction.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

Success is something that has to be earned every day.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.