David Quotes

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

It's only words... unless they're true.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

People make their own luck.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.