David Quotes

All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?

In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

A man must know his limitations.

[F]ear is a great ally.

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.

Incompetency fed on itself.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.