Al David Quotes

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

A strong man can make his own luck.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

LYNDA (TO TINY):Look forward to the momentwhen it falls apart.Look forward to themomentwhen you mustrearrange yourheart.It might feel like theend of the world-but it's the beginning of yourart.

you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.

If you walk out on me, i'm not walking out after you.

There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends and foes. Nothing replaces the other.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

If you only do what you want to do, you won't get there.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475).

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.

To lose is to win.

The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she’s at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

Mum, ” she frowned “if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can’t one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.

When you get in a snit, don't hit

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat’s what unlonely is like

According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their native leaders as the demons who betrayed their people. He called it a demonocracy

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.

A little toxin is the best tonic.

At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

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