A.G. Howard Quotes

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Every project has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

The unknown is the biggest question.

I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters