Alan Quotes

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

Jesus said, 'Enter into My rest' and let God do what He does best

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.But, generation after generation, They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Death is more uni­ver­sal than life everyone dies but not every­one lives.

When we blindly focus on what is to come we fail to see the 'now' and it is the 'now' which is our life. Each moment of each day is what we are living. Don’t miss the moments of each day.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Time reveals character.

I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery.

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Books require titles reading them doesn't

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Books make the soul float.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Discord on one level is harmony on another

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting

Love builds a bridge. Hate builds a wall.

Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog', a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse

Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.