S.A. David Quotes

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

There is no balance, all or nothing.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

I tend to jot down music.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

Creating great content that educates and informs is always the best marketing strategy.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

The most alive is the wildest.

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.