D. T. Max Quotes

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.

I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more regular hours these days.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.