A.G. Howard Quotes

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

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.

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'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

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.

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

I'm telling you right now, you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

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

Genuine effort is success.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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

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

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

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.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.