David Livingstone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
-
I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
-
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
-
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
-
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
-
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
-
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
-
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
-
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
-
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
-
My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
-
I love football, football is my life.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
If you fire people, you fire customers.
-
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
-
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
-
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-
I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
-
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
-
In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.
-
Fear God and work hard.
