S.A. David Quotes

The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

If you can’t be brilliant, at least be memorable

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

All the knowledge is in the connections

Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.