Dave Davies Quotes
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
Quotes to Explore
-
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
-
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
-
To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
-
I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
-
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
-
Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
-
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
-
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
-
As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
-
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
-
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
-
Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
-
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
-
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
-
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.
-
Hurricane Katrina didn't just knock a few bricks from the fabric of a levee. More importantly, it knocked a few bricks also from the notion that America is a shining beacon of hope for a troubled world.It isn't. It's a house of straw. With no education to glue that straw together.
-
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
-
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
-
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.
-
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
