Allen W. Wood Quotes
Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
Allen W. Wood
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Barbara Mandrell
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
Rafael Palmeiro
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
Barbara Kingsolver
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
Saint Ignatius
Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
Arnold Palmer
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
Paul Bryant
I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.
Emma Dumont
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde
There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
C.P. Snow
Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
Allen W. Wood