David Weber Quotes

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

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• I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movies
  • Same

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Job
  • Plant
  • Grateful

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Want
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Business
  • You
  • Drive

• The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Important
  • Happiness

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Deep
  • Results
  • Insecurity

• In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Growing
  • Stop

• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Negative
  • Nasty
  • Narrow

• Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Society

• I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

  

  Paul Zane Pilzer
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Focus

• To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

  

  Peter Bondra
  • Important
  • Game
  • Relax

• My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

  

  David Morrell
  • People
  • Job
  • Reality

• When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Up
  • Good
  • Father

• Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

  

  David Weber
  • Son