Popenoe David Quotes

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home. ~ David Popenoe

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom. ~ David Mamet

I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men. ~ Gregory David Roberts

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel. ~ David Ben-Gurion

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening. ~ David Levithan

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine. ~ David Sedaris

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing. ~ David Gemmell

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name. ~ David O. Russell

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39 ~ David Jeremiah

Apathy and depression are the prices we pay for having settled for and bought into our smallness. It's what we get for having played the victim and allowed ourselves to be programmed. It's the price we pay for having bought into negativity. It's what results from resisting the part of ourselves that is loving, courageous, and great. ~ David R. Hawkins

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace. ~ David Eddings

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. ~ David A. Adler

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction. ~ David Plouffe

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. ~ David Simon

Well, I think it's extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn't mean I think it's easy. There's a difference between the two. It's fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there's difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It's inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It's part of the definition of the work. ~ David Guterson

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. ~ David Benioff

A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat. ~ David Swanson

The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being just her and me. ~ David Levithan

It's always something we have to negotiate - the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. ~ David Levithan

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded. ~ David Perlmutter

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures. ~ David Quammen

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. ~ David Bowie

And he, in his way, talked with her about everything, and shared with her everything, he thought would not be too painful for her, even though she was gladly willing to pay the pain levy, which was sometimes unbearable, only so that he would not for a moment stop the flow of his talk with her, so he would not filter or protect her or think twice. ~ David Grossman

Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds ... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations ... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure ... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors ... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice ... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility. ~ David F. Swensen

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

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions. ~ David H. Koch

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. ~ David Levithan

If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one. ~ David Markson

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. ~ David Cameron

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish. ~ Larry David

Naive people are, more or less by definition, unaware that they're naive. ~ David Foster Wallace