David Quotes

We are not the end of the gospel; God is.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones?

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on.

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I think I am basically a happy person.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

You're only as good as your last record.

They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking!

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.