S.A. David Quotes

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.