David Quotes

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

The old will die and the young will forget.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

Utopia is not one of the options.

The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

If it works, it's out of date.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.