D. T. Max Quotes

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

The power of Christ compels you!

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

The only person I can amaze is me.

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!