D. T. Max Quotes

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

The great promise of Scripture is that every day is a day that's worth rejoicing in.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.

Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path?

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.