S.A. David Quotes

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race