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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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.
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The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
