David Quotes

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

We must have infinite faith in each other.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Golf and dating don't mix.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

I hope suffering don't exist.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

I had a tumor. But it was great.