David Quotes

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

Headlines can be strengthend by the inclusion of emotional words like darling, love, fear, proud, friend and baby.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

There is more inside you than you dare think.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.