David Quotes

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

The choice will be to fully trust in Christ or the setting of the Anti-Christ system.

There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.

The environment is going to change very quickly.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I was not born to be forced.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.