Top 100 David Lloyd Quotes
#1. A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
John F. Kennedy
#2. A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
David Lloyd George
#3. But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.
David Lloyd
#4. Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.
David Lloyd-Jones
#5. The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
David Lloyd George
#6. Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
David Lloyd-Jones
#7. Frank Lloyd Wright ... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
#8. I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.
David Lloyd
#9. The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
David Lloyd-Jones
#10. You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
David Lloyd George
#13. The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.
David Lloyd
#14. I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.
David Lloyd
#15. The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.
David Lloyd-Jones
#16. We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.
David Lloyd
#18. A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
David Lloyd-Jones
#19. I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.
David Lloyd
#20. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
#21. Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communication began.
David Lloyd
#23. The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.
David Lloyd-Jones
#26. Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George
#27. A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
#28. If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
David Lloyd George
#30. To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.
David Lloyd-Jones
#32. [The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
David Lloyd George
#34. V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
David Lloyd
#35. Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.
David Lloyd
#36. When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
David Johansen
#37. People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
David Lloyd-Jones
#38. Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
David Lloyd-Jones
#40. He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
David Lloyd George
#41. Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
David Lloyd George
#42. Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.
David Lloyd
#44. He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
David Lloyd George
#45. Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
David Lloyd
#46. The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.
David Lloyd
#47. No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
David Lloyd George
#48. Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
David Lloyd George
#49. You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
David Lloyd-Jones
#50. The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
David Lloyd-Jones
#51. If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
David Lloyd-Jones
#53. Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#54. England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.
David Lloyd
#55. Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
David Lloyd George
#56. By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
David Lloyd George
#58. When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.
David Lloyd
#59. There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.
David Lloyd-Jones
#60. When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
David Lloyd George
#61. There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
David Lloyd-Jones
#62. You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
David Lloyd George
#63. If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine
David Lloyd
#64. There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
David Lloyd George
#65. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.
David Lloyd-Jones
#66. Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#67. I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.
David Lloyd-Jones
#68. What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George
#69. What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
David Lloyd George
#70. First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
David Lloyd-Jones
#71. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
David Lloyd George
#72. The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.
David Lloyd-Jones
#73. I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
David Lloyd
#74. Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.
David Lloyd
#75. The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
David Lloyd-Jones
#76. People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.
David Lloyd-Jones
#77. We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
David Lloyd
#78. Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.
David Lloyd George
#79. The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
David Lloyd George
#81. Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
David Lloyd
#82. Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
David Lloyd George
#83. You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
David Lloyd
#84. The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
David Lloyd
#85. The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
David Lloyd-Jones
#86. Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys.
David Lloyd
#88. I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things ... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#89. Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
David Lloyd George
#90. The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#91. We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#92. The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
David Lloyd George
#93. We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
David Lloyd-Jones
#94. The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.
David Lloyd-Jones
#96. Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.
David Lloyd George
#98. If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
David Lloyd-Jones
#99. In it he states that while consuming tea we should be "undisturbed by worldly affairs and free of vulgarities."
David R. Hastings Lloyd
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