David Quotes
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat I just feel really happy in the water.
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.
Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!
The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists.
John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.
The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.
