David Quotes
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship.
Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.
I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.
We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
