David Jeremiah Quotes
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
Quotes to Explore
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.
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Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behavior changes completely. It's not because somebody persuaded them to look at the graph on CO2 and temperature, and they finally saw the evidence and were persuaded. Something else changed that allowed them to see and to hear. What is that something else? How can we cultivate that in people without them having to go through a heart attack? The interpersonal things we do change the substructure of our systems. They are political.
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I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
