S.A. David Quotes

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

This is the only planet with chocolate, so we've got to save it.

The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.