S.A. David Quotes

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

California is always in my mind.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

you don't need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that's all.

Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.