Quotes About David

"King David commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, 'Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.' And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders."

When Saul pursues David, Jonathan protected him. "The two of them made a covenant before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh."

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Jackie whispered to me, pointing to the gentleman seated on Ethel's right: "That is one of Bobby's oldest friends, and he's the one selling drugs to David.

The biblical picture of intimacy and love between the shepherd and the sheep is foreign to us. The oriental shepherd lived with his sheep. He slept with them out on the hillsides at night, as David must have done. He went out seeking the hundredth sheep, not satisfied with only ninety-nine in the fold.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

One night David decided to start a spoken word album; David loved Iggy's stories about his days with The Stooges. For a few nights in a row, David, and I sat in the darkened studio asking Iggy questions with the tape rolling. The stories were both decadent and hilarious. I have never heard these tapes since; they would make perfect Podcasts.

On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

Chaos isn't the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game. —Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer

No, a nightmare is what's coming for the rest of these assholes.

Twain had found Palestine to be very tiny, writing that he "could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.