A.A. Allen Quotes

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

I am a huge sports fan.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams

Men expect too much, do too little.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.