David Quotes

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

You get to decide what to worship.

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

I will not negotiate with the undead!

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God's love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!

When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.