A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.

Knowledge is the key.

People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

Change the rule and you will get a new number.