David Quotes

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

God's Word will never fall into disrepair. But here's what happens when we don't travel on it: We fall into disrepair!

Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.

It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.

God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.

Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.