Evelyn David Quotes

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. ~ Henry David Thoreau

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we? ~ David Rakoff

For most digital-age writers, writing is rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it out mechanically. Rewrites cost them months, meters of ink ribbon, and pints of Tippex. Poor sods. ~ David Mitchell

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder. ~ David Copperfield

The Earth needs rebels! ~ David Icke

The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven. ~ David Berg

ITs not the number of breaths you take, but the number of time you experience something that takes your breath away, that defines your life. ~ David J. Murray

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others. ~ Paul David Tripp

Then there was the concert where the boys refused to sing 'God Save the King' because of the pudding they had had for luncheon. One way and another, I have been consistently unfortunate in my efforts at festivity. And yet I look forward to each new fiasco with the utmost relish. ~ Evelyn Waugh

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him. ~ David Ross Locke

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city. ~ David Bailey

Every Sunday we gather in a multimillion-dollar building with millions of dollars in vehicles parked outside. We leave worship to spend thousands of dollars on lunch before returning to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of homes. We live in luxury. Meanwhile the poor man is outside our gate. And he is hungry. In the time we gather for worship on a Sunday morning almost a thousand children elsewhere die because they have no food. If it were our kids starving, they would all be gone by the time we said our closing prayer. We certainly wouldn't ignore our kids while we sang songs and entertained ourselves, but we are content with ignoring other parents' kids. Many of them are our spiritual brothers and sisters in developing nations. They are suffering from malnutrition, deformed bodies and brains, and preventable diseases. At most, we are throwing our scraps to them while we indulge in our pleasures here. ~ David Platt

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon. ~ David Elkind

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You'll be happier. ~ David J. Pollay

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun. ~ David Lodge

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has ~ David Simon

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ~ David Brainerd

Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions. ~ David Letterman

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka. ~ David Letterman

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different. ~ David Gerrold

I don't feel tardy. ~ David Lee Roth

Somwhere across town she was standing at a sink or walking into a closet, his name stowed somewhere in the pleated neurons of her brain, echoing up one dendrite in a billion: David, David. ~ Anthony Doerr

Dad might have helped you see the best parts of yourself, but they were always there, and no one can take them away."
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"If that's true, how am I supposed to see them now that he's gone?"
"Get a mirror. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front. ~ David Letterman

If artists, writers and musicians were not just a little delusional, they would all have office jobs. ~ David Gustafson

Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands. ~ David Lloyd George

Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors. ~ David F. Swensen

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. ~ David Abram

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance. ~ J. August Richards

My dad and I could chat for hours about solar systems, dog psychology, and the existence of God, all while listening to Hank Williams and eating Taco Bell. ~ David Crabb

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. ~ David Ogilvy

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. ~ David Macaulay

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. ~ John Evelyn

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling. ~ David Walton

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree]. ~ Davy Crockett

This is my religion - we're all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It's a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect. ~ David Duchovny

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore. ~ David Shore

Training prepares you for a job; an education prepares you for life. ~ David Bayles

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. ~ David Mamet