David Deida Quotes

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

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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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Things
  • Very
  • Involved

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Art
  • War

• At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heaven
  • Humanity
  • Door

• Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Desire
  • Elysian Fields
  • Mistral

• Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Internet
  • Now
  • Computers

• 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

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Baby
  • Diamond

• 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.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Death
  • Free
  • Bed

• Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wants
  • Everybody
  • Matters

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Presidents
  • Governors
  • Senators

• People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Desire

• To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Mean

• Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Love Is
  • Essentials

• I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.

  

  Nicola Adams
  • History
  • Gold
  • Boxing

• Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

  

  David Deida
  • Infinite
  • Essentials
  • Tension