S.A. David Quotes

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

Messi does incredible things, his stats make you cover your eyes. He cannot be compared to anyone.

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

The world rests on principles.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!