S.A. David Quotes

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

It takes a long time to make it simple.

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.