David Swing Quotes
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
-
I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
-
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
-
What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
-
Before there was anything, there was Lochan.
-
There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
-
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-
We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
-
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
-
What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
-
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
-
It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
-
I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.
-
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
-
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
-
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
-
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
-
The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.
-
Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.
-
Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.
-
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.
