Saul David Quotes

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

Saul David

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Challenge

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Awesome
  • Prepare
  • Soup

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Respect

• When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

  

  Carole King
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Lost

• I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  

  Len Wein
  • Find
  • Editors
  • Clue

• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Pain
  • Terrible
  • Epic

• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Self

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Plan

• You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Poverty
  • Cures
  • Beholder

• Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Together
  • Fiction
  • Fortresses

• Dad had a passion for prancing, matched pairs of light horses – buying them, matching them, training them and then selling them to people who could afford them. The stock he drove was nearly always in the process of being trained. That was his business…

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Dad
  • Passion
  • Prancing

• Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Diary

• As far as my mindset goes, I have no more frustration. I have had a year off, had a year to watch basketball and really learn the game from the outside in, and I see what I need to do, and I'm just anxious. I'm waiting to start. Come Monday, I'll be working. I can't say it any other way. I want to get things going.

  

  Andrew Bynum
  • Working
  • Start
  • Basketball

• Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

  

  Saul David
  • Talking
  • Fiction
  • Historian