Al David Quotes

One way or another we’re taking your bank. All you have to do is decide the level of persuasion we need to apply.

They stood either side of him like haunting little genetic bookends. The one thing he’ll leave behind, two kids who called another man for help with their homework.

Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net

Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.

I no longer belong to your ways. My religion is love. Every heart is my church.

On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

Visions are for the Heavens to see.

Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.

No worries and no goodbyes, just give me a smile.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.

I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

Head for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

If you're getting chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you. - Tim Ferris

Survival often demands our courage.

If there comes among you a prophet saying ‘Let us return to the darkness, ’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light.

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

elliptical, adj.The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being...'til death do you part.

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

No one rules if no one obeys

Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.