A.G. Howard Quotes

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

My future's about trying to be a better man

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

It's a brave new world.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

There's action only if there is danger.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

Fortune favors the prepared.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.