S.A. David Quotes
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.
The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.
When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.
We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.
As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings
If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can't be filled with impure thoughts.
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?