David Goliath Quotes

The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked up at Goliath and realized that if he fought Goliath's way with a sword, Goliath would kill him. But if he picked up a rock and put it in his sling, he could hit Goliath in the head and knock Goliath down and kill him. David used his mind when he fought Goliath. So did we Vietnamese when we had to fight the Americans. ~ Vo Nguyen Giap

If I have sinned so much, if I have been since then so solitary, if my soul has taken such a swirling and solitary movement, if I have doubted everyting, if I have been fatalist and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man incapable of laughing wholeheartedly it is because you left me ... ~ Malcolm Gladwell

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such. ~ David Elliott

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it. ~ David Foster Wallace

If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame." No: ~ Henry David Thoreau

She became the bad company that she kept. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

I don't know where I am, Evan."
"I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just ... everywhere."
"I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater."
"I need a gun."
"Evan? I need- ~ David Levithan

The Bible tells you that real peace is found in resting in the wisdom of the One who holds all of your "what-ifs" and "if-onlys" in his loving hands. Isaiah captures this well with these comforting words: "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you" (Isa. 26:3). Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery. So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace. ~ Paul David Tripp

Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye, a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys, if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality. ~ Henry David Thoreau

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. ~ David Byrne

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. ~ David Duchovny

For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women - these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort. ~ David Henry Hwang

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to. ~ David Baldacci

Knowledge without action cost money ~ David Bach

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds. ~ David Bowie

Letting it go feels so sodding liberating. ~ David Mitchell

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace. ~ David Axelrod

To be awake is to be alive. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us. ~ David Amerland

I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile. ~ Gregory David Roberts

Peter suggests that we never forget one fact: 'That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.' Translation: God sets His watch to a time zone not accessible to us. Once again we need to remember that He is the one who created time, like everything else, and He uses it for His own purposes.
I like the little story about the foolishness of quantifying God's timing. A little boy asked God, 'How long is a second in heaven?' God said, 'One million years.' The boy asked, 'How much is a penny in heaven?' God answered, 'One million dollars.' The boy said, 'Could I have a penny?' To which God answered, 'In just a second. ~ David Jeremiah

Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears. ~ David Arnold

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders. ~ David Sills

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins. ~ Eric Avery

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity ~ David Jeremiah

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. ~ David Clennon

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else
and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music. ~ David Byrne

Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too. ~ David Levithan

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it. ~ David Eller

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. ~ David Crosby

If then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become of the worthies of the world. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Papa was no longer fixing a carburetor: he was setting up a greasy little Cuban missile base smack-dab in the middle of Mama's immaculate Washington, D.C. It was a flagrant act of war. ~ David James Duncan

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing. ~ David Hasselhoff

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive. ~ David Toop

When I was a Poet
Everything was Possible
there wasn't Anything
that wasn't Poetry ~ David Meltzer