Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Steve Allen

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• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Work
  • God
  • Sleep

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Mad

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Mountain

• When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Day
  • Problems

• The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Journey
  • Take
  • Internal

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Done
  • Things
  • Tell

• Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Fashion
  • Decision

• Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Army

• I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Law

• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Voice
  • Problems
  • Judges

• Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Play
  • Problems
  • Governments

• Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Effort

• One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Problems
  • Except
  • Imaginations