David Quotes

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The past is our very being.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.