David Quotes

God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

We have become a force of nature.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

Should check the Internet and make sure everything on there is correct.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'