S.A. David Quotes

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

Today. This bright new day that awaits us

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I think reality is over-rated

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

True Christianity is love in action.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.