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
-
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.
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
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.
-
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
-
The job as a coach is difficult.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
-
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?
-
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
-
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
-
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.
-
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
-
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.
-
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
-
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
-
To preserve Nature's chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.
-
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
-
You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.
-
We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
-
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
-
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?
