S.A. David Quotes

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

The difference is conflict, an important yet overlooked aspect of all good communications.

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.

I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.

The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

I've been proud to be national champion.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.