Andrew Davidson Quotes

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

Andrew Davidson

• Soul
• Enough
• Hero

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High

• I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Energy

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• Sneakers are not my thing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Thing
  • Sneakers

• The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beauty

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Heart
  • Church

• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  

  Edward Bond
  • Mad

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People

• Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Liar

• The fact that I am a woman has never really played into what I have done or not done. I have just been lucky that things have played out so that I could do things.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Done

• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Great
  • Important
  • Science

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Judge

• Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • People
  • Why
  • Hope

• I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

  

  Gayle King
  • Important
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Good
  • Music
  • Pride

• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Doubt

• I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

  

  Julio Iglesias
  • Enough
  • Sing
  • Give Up

• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Boy
  • Door
  • Voice

• [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Snow

• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Happiness

• I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

  

  Andrew Davidson
  • Soul
  • Enough
  • Hero