David Quotes

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Faith never makes a confession.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.