Those with the most eloquent explanation for their aberrations are the least likely to get better.


Alan Robert Neal

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We'll have to just leave it up to the rider not to do anything suicidal.
NEAL MCLAUGHLIN
A lot of them are disappearing, either from neglect or natural disasters. They're very fragile. We h...
NEAL BROWN
They are a good side. They are in a false position in the table because their Vase run has left them...
NEAL GRANYCOME
You were an aborted fetus.
NEAL BOORTZ
Ted Griffin, who created 'Terriers,' is one of my dearest friends.
NEAL MCDONOUGH
Twenty-twenty hindsight is a beautiful thing, but on live radio, live TV during a live broadcast, yo...
NEAL BOORTZ
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL
He predicted that mom and Bruce would ramp each other up after he was gone.
SCOTT NEAL
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
NEAL BOORTZ
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ
If he pleads guilty, then there's a feather in the cap of the prosecution quickly,
NEAL SONNETT
I just took him up there. I didn't have nothing to do with it. How the trailer hitch got in there, I...
JOHN NEAL
John came in as skipper in Rio and has had a careful look at all aspects of our campaign. The team h...
NEAL MCDONALD
You don't see the symptoms, and that's one of the puzzles of the moment.
NEAL SOSS
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who den...
RICHARD NEAL
This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purpose...
NEAL STEPHENSON
You have the soul of a corporation," a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
We have done the homework on this. We want to build something that everyone can be proud of.
NEAL PALMER
By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured t...
NEAL ASCHERSON
Anybody who actually cares about people, come out and help us help this man who was a veteran of the...
TONJA NEAL
It's a passion for me.
TONJA NEAL
There's an awful lot of good stuff out there, and we want to make sure that viewers know where to fi...
DAVID NEAL
Walls don't fall without effort.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?
NEAL STEPHENSON
I wouldn't say it was nasty; it was intense. We lost a game we had to win. Guys are going to be upse...
JOHN NEAL
the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was tru...
NEAL STEPHENSON
You have not seen a group more superstitious.
KATY NEAL