Al David Quotes
Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.
One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you
It is always the ones who believe that are hurt the worst when things go wrong.
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.
The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free!
No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.
Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 after the WTC crash.)
The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.
Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.
Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
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(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.
While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, “they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,
We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.
Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.
Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.
I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.
A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.
Son, my dad said, every man needs a bitter, resentful woman in his life. Because there's nothing more touching to a mother's heart than to know that her son thinks of her constantly.
One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.
People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
Seldom do we think about how seldom we think.
Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.
Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.
Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".
I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.