A.G. Howard Quotes

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

How sweet a thing it is to love and to be loved again.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.

There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

The home marks a child for life.

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I'll never let you see, the way my broken heart is hurting me, I've got my pride and know how to hide all my sorrow and pain, I'll do my crying in the rain.

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

We are being programmed by mental pygmies.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.