Al David Quotes

But that's the difference between people and stars. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

There was something wild about her, as if she was connected to this place but not the people.

Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?

This arrogant, perfumed young noble, in his rustling silks and polished lamellar armour, knew nothing of the hardships of war.

I became the fractured shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

Eternal nothingness is okay if you are dressed for it.

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

Necessity is a mother.

I fall off horses, " he explained to Loghain with a sickly grin. "It's this thing I do.

A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get, ” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

Even an imposter knows the one truth they cant hide is love

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!

Don’t you wonder sometimes, ” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.

Why is Jesus’ saying, “I am!” so important? Because, you’re not!

The season of evil, " I echoed. "Protect your soul.

...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?