A.G. Howard Quotes

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

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

That which is worth while is seldom easy.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no narrow loyalties.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.

For who would live if life held no allurements?

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.