David Quotes

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

I like to breed players that attack people.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

While you are responsible to your clients for sales results, you are responsible to consumers for the kind of advertising you bring into their homes.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

There is no business on a dead planet

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.