David Quotes

I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.

I got a lot of heart. I am going to give it my all every day. I have no excuses. I come prepared every day. I put it in the hard work.

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

I don't have any fault steps. I play with good technique and good pad level.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

Cynicism does not cause inaction.

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

The only wealth is life.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.