Al David Quotes

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

She will be your living hell.

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice.

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine.

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

No one really knows why humans do what they do.

If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.

When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

...whatever God found worth creating we can find worth studying.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.

One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.

Surviving is one thing, " he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

Nobody should know what's waiting for them. If you knew your future, why... it would take all the fun out of living.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired, " and my spirit says "I have no desire, " whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!

To know God is to know yourself!

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

Maybe success comes from simply following one's destiny.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.

How can I possibly stop loving you when it's sort of predestined? — Malcom Lowry to Carol Brown, 1926 (age 16)

Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be.

Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?

Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades would lead the constellations to their destination.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

Learn to work on your work.

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well.

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.