David Auerbach Quotes

#1. When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

Ray Lewis

#2. When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square ... the critics ... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert" ... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling ...

Kazimir Malevich

#3. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Focus on people more than money. Without employees and customers, you're going nowhere. Make sure you never stop thinking about the customer's perspective. And make sure you have the right people at the helm of each area.

David Green

#5. I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).

Brett Kiellerop-Morris

#6. A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Shirley Manson

#7. I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.

Sylvia Plath

#8. The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Ray Davies

#9. If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. She talked that night of all those out in the dark (she was thinking of Esteban alone, she was thinking of Pepita alone) who had no one to turn to, for whom the world perhaps was more than difficult, without meaning.

Thornton Wilder

#11. Ten thousand years to plan the eradication of humans from Earth and this is the best they can come up with? That's

Rick Yancey

#12. The Framers [of the Constitution] ... created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

William O. Douglas

#13. It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#14. Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and confidence in the providence of God
through certainty that only God can set everything to rights, and faith that in the end, He will. Man can only ameliorate, not cure.

J. Budziszewski

#15. I was broken. I didn't need to break anyone else with me.

Tijan