Saul David Quotes

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

Saul David

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• General
• Battlefield
• Litmus

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• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Business
  • You
  • Driving

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Never
  • Regret
  • Will

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • House
  • Television
  • Possibilities

• I think people desperately want to feel love.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Better

• I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Idea
  • Prove
  • Tire

• If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

  

  Maria Montessori

• Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Done

• The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

  

  Anya Seton
  • God
  • May
  • Soul

• If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Writing
  • Character

• Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

  

  Lucy Liu
  • Men
  • Different
  • Eyes

• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Real
  • You
  • Me

• It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Up
  • Children
  • Home

• Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mankind
  • General
  • Parts

• When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Police
  • Institutions
  • General

• History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

  

  Saul David
  • Army
  • General
  • Battlefield