S.A. David Quotes

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life...It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

For me, architecture is a social act.

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

The most important thing is presentation.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.