Robert Anderson Quotations

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

We were almost lost in the middle of the Pacific. We almost capsized in those doldrums.

We have recognized that the postal service should undertake a Section 106 review before selling air rights.

Maybe my son can get some rest now.

No human being on this earth should go through what my son went though. I just wish they could have done me like that instead of it being him.

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

I did make a comment that I didn't think more than 20 (residential units) per acre was appropriate for that site. At the same time, I'm only one board member.

He was trying to do what they wanted him to do but they still beat him, kicked, punched him, and the nurse stood around there and didn't do nothing.

He wants full control of the town. He wants to micromanage everything.

Harry Bridges was very famous in his day. And Connie had given him favorable coverage.

The anger of the common citizen is growing as people realize they will soon be caught in this trap for the unwary. This is simply bad policy and must be abolished.

We pulled into berth and made ourselves at home.

We are thrilled with the success of this year's show.

When Georgia Tech went on probation, the calls flooded in. Even the recruiters at Tech said they were getting calls from other schools to see how many scholarships they were going to have to offer.

There's another way to edit the sentence, which is to add a comma before the second 'which.' The survivor is struggling toward 'some resolution,' not a specific resolution that the mind may never find. The final clause is an appended thought, not a conclusion of the previous clause: 'Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution, which it may never find.'

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

We had a false start. We pulled in and dried out.

We need to be more creative and imaginative about the kinds of contributions which older people might make in their communities, in neighborhood organizations and by volunteering.

We like to keep our investigations under an hour. We push our guys to get roads reopened. This tool is what we need to make it happen.

It was exciting. Probably the most exciting thing in my life. It was exciting to say the least.

It's a crying shame we've got to go pull our son up again just to get the truth.

It's a crying shame ù we've got to go pull our son up again just to get the truth.

The odor is out of control. It stinks all the time. We know it's an old plant, but there are ways to contain odor.

I want the governor to do something. I'm pretty sure that if it was me doing this to his son, I would have been locked up.

Impact fees are usually assessed for new homes that come up, to cover the impacts of added utility and sewer lines and the like. (In the case of the arena) it will only be partial use so they requested a variance to the fees.

I had spent all of that time at sea. And I had a job I didn't care about. ... That was the reason they asked me to go. Everything sort of fit. We shook hands on it that night.

The tribes have got a powerful case, a very logical case.

All of those things are at risk now, so we're trying to preserve a natural treasure really for this area.

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"

For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.

Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt for ever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised.