S.A. David Quotes

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts.

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Money is a mechanism for control.

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.