Andrus Quotes

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

On the other side, I do think there's a melding in there. There are situations
I've done contracts for Carlos Gonzalez, or just recently I did one for Elvis Andrus
to where there is a melding of the club's wants and the player's wants where you do things in advance of free agency. ~ Scott Boras

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

Andrus turned the engine and gave her a suspicious look. "You smell like ... " He shifted into drive. "What?" "Nothing, but - did something happen inside?" Could he really smell ... that? He crinkled his nose. "Your face is red and your scent is ... " Oh, God. He can! Kill me now! Giant bomb, falling tree, spontaneous combustion ... anything! ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason. ~ Jerry Andrus

The Nephite prophets stressed that charity is not a man-made quality in those who possess it, but an endowment of the Holy Spirit, bestowed in some measure upon those who are born into the kingdom of God and thereafter increased in man by the influence of the Holy Ghost, as he grows in grace and in the knowledge of God. ~ Hyrum L. Andrus

Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that. ~ Jerry Andrus

You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant ~ Mark Andrus

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another. ~ Jerry Andrus

I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass. ~ Ian Kinsler

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity. ~ Mark Andrus

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me. ~ Mark Andrus

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. ~ Mark Andrus

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame. ~ Stephen King