It's not about the children. It's a political game.
JASON ATKINSON Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the ...
KATE ATKINSON To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their...
ROWAN ATKINSON I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and se...
EDWARD ATKINSON Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. On the subject o...
ROWAN ATKINSON If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
JOHN ATKINSON It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ...
BROOKS ATKINSON Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open inf...
GIL ATKINSON The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
GORDON ATKINSON It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift y...
GORDON ATKINSON Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no ...
GORDON ATKINSON Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and ...
GORDON ATKINSON We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exis...
GORDON ATKINSON The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising way...
GORDON ATKINSON God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my fait...
GORDON ATKINSON And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, ...
GORDON ATKINSON Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in...
GORDON ATKINSON Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
GORDON ATKINSON When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentl...
GORDON ATKINSON I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
GORDON ATKINSON EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for...
GORDON ATKINSON Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person ...
GORDON ATKINSON When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There migh...
GORDON ATKINSON You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
GORDON ATKINSON In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of...
RICK ATKINSON Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorpho...
ROWAN ATKINSON I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I sli...
KATE ATKINSON I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas ...
KATE ATKINSON American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were th...
RICK ATKINSON The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Cri...
ROWAN ATKINSON There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You...
ROWAN ATKINSON No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ...
ROWAN ATKINSON The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very sm...
RICK ATKINSON Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I...
ANTHONY ATKINSON It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best...
ANTHONY ATKINSON Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.
ANTHONY ATKINSON Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable...
ANTHONY ATKINSON I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life,...
RICK ATKINSON The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should firs...
RICK ATKINSON You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles sout...
RICK ATKINSON I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing ...
KATE ATKINSON It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly ...
ROWAN ATKINSON When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like...
ROWAN ATKINSON I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch th...
ROWAN ATKINSON I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembere...
ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonv...
ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in...
ROWAN ATKINSON The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be v...
KATE ATKINSON Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest...
RICK ATKINSON There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month o...
RICK ATKINSON Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot ...
ROWAN ATKINSON I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends u...
ROWAN ATKINSON The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apa...
BROOKS ATKINSON The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point ...
BROOKS ATKINSON It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
BROOKS ATKINSON Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God...
BROOKS ATKINSON The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or...
BROOKS ATKINSON People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of t...
BROOKS ATKINSON The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'...
BILL ATKINSON To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their...
ROWAN ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time...
BROOKS ATKINSON It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republica...
FRANK ATKINSON George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as gover...
FRANK ATKINSON To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and tea...
FRANK ATKINSON This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.
FRANK ATKINSON When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast,
FRANK ATKINSON It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.
FRANK ATKINSON We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many...
JANICE ATKINSON If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel election...
JANICE ATKINSON Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough ma...
JANICE ATKINSON To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with ...
JANICE ATKINSON Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f...
JACOB ATKINSON Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id...
JACOB ATKINSON Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain
JACOB ATKINSON Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything...
JACOB ATKINSON Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I...
JACOB ATKINSON He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ...
JACOB ATKINSON Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart....
JACOB ATKINSON Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.
JACOB ATKINSON Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they...
JACOB ATKINSON It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ...
JACOB ATKINSON I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-c...
ALIA ATKINSON This was our first time.
JOHN ATKINSON I checked with our infectious disease specialist and we've not had any cases here yet. So far so goo...
JOHN ATKINSON They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting...
JOHN ATKINSON Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ki...
JOHN ATKINSON We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life...
JOHN ATKINSON We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home r...
JOHN ATKINSON I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from C...
JOHN ATKINSON [That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy,...
JOHN ATKINSON When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.
JOHN ATKINSON It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to o...
JENNIFER ATKINSON This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here ...
JENNIFER ATKINSON It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.
JENNIFER ATKINSON She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee th...
JENNIFER ATKINSON I haven't seen anything like this before. It's an odd way to run for the Republican nomination, base...
KATY ATKINSON Money is important; it always will be.
KATY ATKINSON The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.
KATY ATKINSON Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year.
KATY ATKINSON It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks.
KATY ATKINSON I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position ...
KATY ATKINSON They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are.
KATY ATKINSON This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their ow...
KATY ATKINSON There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandal...
KATY ATKINSON If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you s...
KATY ATKINSON We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move forward...
DAVID ATKINSON The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't nec...
DAVID ATKINSON We realized that as a system we could handle those cases … in a family-...
DAVID ATKINSON Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted ...
DAVID ATKINSON We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable.
DAVID ATKINSON We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent op...
DAVID ATKINSON The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that...
DAVID ATKINSON They've got more scale and can do something with it,
DAVID ATKINSON I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebra...
DAVID ATKINSON Considering [this market] is in an era of strong secular trends in basic materials, our firm foresee...
DAVID ATKINSON I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSON Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five.
CHRIS ATKINSON It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.
CHRIS ATKINSON I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play...
CHRIS ATKINSON It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much...
CHRIS ATKINSON We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of t...
CHRIS ATKINSON It's nice have to have a name for the park. We've just been calling it the old bridge approach. It w...
CHRIS ATKINSON The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overal...
CHRIS ATKINSON Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.
MARK ATKINSON With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficul...
MARK ATKINSON It's quite hearty in the environment.
MARK ATKINSON We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a ...
MARK ATKINSON It's more likely to be brought in by the illegal movement of birds and bird products.
MARK ATKINSON Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essentia...
MICHAEL ATKINSON You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like ...
MICHAEL ATKINSON One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus wh...
MICHAEL ATKINSON Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and...
MICHAEL ATKINSON Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men ar...
MICHAEL ATKINSON They used to throw this stuff away.
LEO ATKINSON I was a little country hick boy.
LEO ATKINSON Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits tog...
LEO ATKINSON It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.
LEO ATKINSON I am blessed to have first been a salesperson.
LEO ATKINSON It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.
LEO ATKINSON I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you...
GORDON ATKINSON When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
GORDON ATKINSON Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes t...
GORDON ATKINSON I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never i...
GORDON ATKINSON It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is rig...
GORDON ATKINSON Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
GORDON ATKINSON One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'...
GORDON ATKINSON The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, ...
GORDON ATKINSON Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa...
GORDON ATKINSON See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things...
GORDON ATKINSON If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ...
GORDON ATKINSON Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
GORDON ATKINSON I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
GORDON ATKINSON External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev...
GORDON ATKINSON Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
BROOKS ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev...
BROOKS ATKINSON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
GORDON ATKINSON I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ...
GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ...
ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
RON ATKINSON I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ...
ROB ATKINSON Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into...
ROB ATKINSON We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor...
ROB ATKINSON We know what techniques work best and what technology people should use for any particular brief.
ROB ATKINSON Andy Eastwood is our new offensive coach and he's helping us with our man up offense. We had trouble...
ROB ATKINSON We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha...
RITA ATKINSON We need to be patient and move the ball well. We need balance with an inside-outside game. But if we...
RITA ATKINSON One of the reasons for our success this year is clearly that 13 kids came to practice every day and ...
RITA ATKINSON She said they're a perimeter team .... They're scrappy, and they push the ball up court on the fast ...
RITA ATKINSON The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else.
NICK ATKINSON But we have just found the more we play live in the UK, the more people have started to talk about o...
NICK ATKINSON I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us.
NICK ATKINSON In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something,
NICK ATKINSON