David 8 Quotes

You stink of humanity,' he murmured, 'but I'll love you just the same. ~ Alan Dean Foster

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams. ~ Alan Dean Foster

Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design. ~ Alan Dean Foster

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years. ~ John Stossel

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

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work. ~ Ryan McGinley

What makes today's popular atheism so depressing is neither its conceptual boorishness nor its self-righteousness but simply its cultural inevitability. It is the final, predictable, and unsurprisingly vulgar expression of an ideological tradition that has, after many centuries, become so pervasive and habitual that most of us have no idea how to doubt its premises or how to avert its consequences. This is a fairly sad state of affairs, because those consequences have at times proved quite terrible. ~ David Bentley Hart

I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. ~ David Foster Wallace

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. ~ David Attenborough

If you have thirty dollars and rent is eighty, there's no point in saving any of it. Drink till you're drunk and pay for a ride home. You might as well enjoy your trip to the bottom. It's when you've got eighty-seven dollars and the rent's eighty that you need to save. ~ Ryan David Jahn

Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative energy, the fundamental decency, the tolerance and insistence on truth, and the good-heartedness of the American people are there still plainly. Many ~ David McCullough

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. ~ Henry David Thoreau

To know God is to know yourself! ~ Tice Davids Aka David T. Parker

That human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too. ~ David Mitchell

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all. ~ David McCullough

Love seemed all the sweeter when it was misunderstood, condemned by the outside world. ~ David Sedaris

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation. ~ David Icke

If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can't see yourself doing it, usually you can't achieve it. ~ David Goggins

Eric arrived, "Hey," he said, "what's going on here?" The two women were silent, and didn't ~ David J. Antocci

How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it? ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Hugh's old drawing teacher used to have one, and though it had been ten years since he'd taken the woman's class, I could suddenly recall him talking about it. "If I had a skeleton like Minerva's ... ," he used to say. I don't remember the rest of the sentence, as I'd always been sidetracked by the teacher's name, Minerva. Sounds like a witch. ~ David Sedaris

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. ~ David Byrne

Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't evolve; populations do. Nature doesn't give a damn about individuals. The only role we play in evolution is surviving long enough to give birth to offspring who are slightly different from us. Some of our offspring will prosper in a changing environment, and some of them will not. As for us individuals, once we've reproduced, nature has no more use for us. We perish along with our ill-adapted young. Death has always been an essential factor in species survival.

Now consider the human race. We are a partial exception to the rule. Unlike other species, we have developed culture. Instead of adapting to a changing environment biologically, we can sometimes adapt to it culturally. If an Ice Age comes along, we don't need to grow fur on our bodies if we invent the fur coat. Culture allows us to adapt to almost any environment, including the harshest, like space. In fact, our cultural adaptation is so robust that it all but obviates the need to evolve biologically.

We are so good at adapting to changing conditions with our knowledge and technology that we may deceive ourselves into believing that we are above nature. But only a fools believes that. Nature always has the last word. A star in our neighborhood could go supernova and wipe out all life in our solar system, and no amount of cult ~ David Marusek

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate. ~ Alex Ferguson

Despite the fact that Christianity initially was a non-violent radical movement of God's people, many today who claim to be of Christ seem to see war as needed and even God ordained. Such blasphemy is hardly new. Since the days of Constantine (I) when the State and the Church made an unholy alliance, the deception of redemptive warfare has been clung to as if it were a life belt. Yet, ever since the time of Jesus the Messiah and prophets before Him many radicals (often persecuted and outcast) have questioned the morality of war. Now in the 21st Century generations are also rising up against the war machine among both the secular and spiritual sector of society. They recognise that war is for power, economy and pride, not justice or peace. Long may the voices in the wilderness be heard, as they prepare the way for the Lord, who when he comes again will be the undoing of evil and the establisher of a kingdom not of this world that will live in peace forever!!! ~ David Holdsworth

Spring adds, summer multiplies, autumn subtracts, winter divides. ~ David Mitchell

People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit. ~ David Baldacci

I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all. ~ David Mackay

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced. ~ David A. Bednar

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.' ~ David O. Russell

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them. ~ David Crossman

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure. ~ David Vitter

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains. ~ David Eagleman

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth. ~ David Lynch

We all think we are actors, given our scripts. But really? You're the playwright. You're the composer. ~ David Levithan

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. ~ David Mitchell

That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart. ~ Gregory David Roberts

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating. ~ David Guetta

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church. ~ David Platt

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone. ~ David Rakoff