A.G. Howard Quotes

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you‟re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn‟t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Money can't buy happiness.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.