Alan Quotes

[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

I have had situations in the past when you are close to signing a player and the money involved switches from euros to pounds to dollars. It is a difficult process, but one we have to work with.

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

Anger is a call for awareness.