Alan Quotes

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Rights come from God and only from God.

When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

I was a high school throw-out.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.