D. T. Max Quotes

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

When we would say 'No way, ' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

Our athiests are pious people.

Hope is a mistake. If you cant fix what's broken, you will go insane.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

I don't remember when i was born.Death I haven't experienced yet.All I know is I'm here now and right up until my used by date comes, I'm going to shake that tree of life until every leaf falls off.

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

People fear what they don't understand. They always have.

Not everything needed to be processed. Some things needed to be ignored and slept on.

Homeschool doesn’t give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It justgives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone’s lame Facebook joke.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.

Flirtation attention without intention.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Flirtation - attention without intention.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

If you try to bring 'teen drama, ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.