Al Doe Quotes & Sayings

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron. — Al Barkow

We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as our current valuation in the marketplace tells us every minute of every day that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of global warming into the thin atmosphere surrounding the planet every 24 hours as if that atmosphere is an open sewer, then the individual actions are not going to solve the problem. — Al Gore

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

What does everybody want? HEAD! — Al Snow

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly. — Al Franken

Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it,
For that your self ye daily such doe see:
But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit,
And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me.
For all the rest, how ever fayre it be,
Shall turne to nought and loose that glorious hew:
But onely that is permanent and free
From frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew.
That is true beautie: that doth argue you
To be divine and borne of heavenly seed:
Deriv'd from that fayre Spirit, from whom al true
And perfect beauty did at first proceed.
He onely fayre, and what he fayre hath made,
All other fayre lyke flowres untymely fade. — Edmund Spenser

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it. — Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks. — Al Pacino

Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God. — Al Barry

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured. — Al Pacino

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh? — Adel Al-Jubeir

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi'i

Mother Nature does not do bailouts. — Al Gore

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Keith's [Briffa] series ... differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series). — Michael E. Mann

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated. — George W. Bush

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now. — Al Gore