A.G. Howard Quotes

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, " she would write seven decades later.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Becoming hurts.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

Love freelyAsk kindlyLive gentlyLove fiercelyHope infinitelyRage internallyForgive repeatedlySpeak wiselyFeel deeply

Always have something to look forward to

And there, in the midst of blinding orange, yellow, and white flames, our forever begins.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.

A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

Failure has its successes.

It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

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Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

Love is all that awaits you.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

Where's your sense of adventure?It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi.-Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

Don’t kiss me, ” she said warningly.“I don’t intend to, ” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I’m Sam Donovan.” “I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. I’m Jaine Bright.” “I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name.” Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?

Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Right now I've got just two rules to live by.Rule one: don't taunt elephants.Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.-Sergeant Schlock