David Deida Quotes
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
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Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.
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People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
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Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
