D. T. Max Quotes

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.

I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

The dead walk among us.

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

I was never a believer in decline.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

Because of Bethlehem, I have a friend in heaven.

God has work for you to do.

You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.

To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.