S.A. David Quotes

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.