S.A. David Quotes
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun
Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.