S.A. David Quotes

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

There is no stronger or weaker…. You’re strong in the moment when you go right to the end for the cause you are defending.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.

Finding that core of truth within yourself... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.