S.A. David Quotes

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

Worst haircut I've ever seen in my life. And I've had a few bad ones. It looks like he (John Daly) has a divot over each ear.

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.

Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The best idea is the simplest.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.