Edgeworth David Quotes

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known. ~ David Remnick

You want to hear a story? Well, buckle the fuck up."
From: What the Hell Did I Just Read ~ David Wong

Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be. ~ David A. Bednar

She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that's why I'm sick of love. ~ Gregory David Roberts

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom. ~ David Lilienthal

For all of us with consciousness" - the Dalai Lama returned to his seat - "our life is very precious. Therefore, we need to protect all sentient beings very much. Also, we must recognize that we share the same two basic wishes: the wish to enjoy happiness and the wish to avoid suffering." These ~ David Michie

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life ~ David Ogilvy

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye. ~ Henry David Thoreau

For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching. ~ David Foster Wallace

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process. ~ David Blunkett

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars. ~ David McCullough

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. ~ David Gerrold

Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. - Doc Childre and Bruce Crier ~ David Allen

Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys play the pipe organ. ~ Glen David Gold

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth. ~ David McCullough

Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash. ~ David Sedaris

The Grace Hotel in Sukhumvit had been a magnet for tarts, double-bent cops, single-trippers, sub-orbital space cadets and those spring-necked noddies who spent their waking hours peering into the dark side of the spoon. ~ David McMillan

The prayer we know as "The Lord's Prayer" came from the Lord Jesus in direct response to His disciples' request: "Lord, teach us to pray." It has always fascinated me that they never asked Jesus to teach them to preach. They never asked Him to teach them to give or to witness. Perhaps, like us, the disciples were often at a loss when it came to communicating with the Almighty. ~ David Jeremiah

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. ~ David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl Of Kilmuir

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. ~ David Suzuki

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states. ~ David Emerson

You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes. ~ David Lynch

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. ~ David Foster Wallace

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. ~ David Mitchell

The trombone is not meant for romance ... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies. ~ David Crowe

I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the very edge of the known world. To protect what? A hundred or so mud and wattle huts, three hundred savage strangers who do not even speak my tongue. And, of course, my own skin. ~ David Malouf

Are you really saying there's only one way to God?' people immediately ask. Yet even as we ask the question, we reveal the problem. If there were 1,000 ways to God, we would want 1,001. The issue is not how many ways lead to God; the issue is our autonomy before God. We want to make our own way. This is the essence of sin in the first place - trusting our way more than God's way. ~ David Platt

Eddie: You don't have any feelings at all.
Phil: I don't have your feelings, Eddie; that's all. I have my own, they get me by. ~ David Rabe

My so-called love for humanity, for instance, isn't something I get to carry around in my heart. It has to find application among the weird, desperate people who populate my daily experience. It has to put on flesh. If it doesn't, I might take pleasure in the warm, fuzzy feeling of my personal, private faith, but it wouldn't be appropriate to call it Christianity. ~ David Dark

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist. ~ David Mamet

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Owl love you forever ~ David Sedaris

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. ~ David Low