A.A. Allen Quotes
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.
In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are
When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.
Man's rise or fall success or failure happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.
I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.
Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.
In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.
A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that's completely untrue.
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little he who would achieve much must sacrifice much he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman, ' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.
My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.