Quotes About David

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single "David" standing with God, than a million "Goliath's" standing without Him.

David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut."100

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

The popular reaction to David seems to have been wonder at his size rather than at the artistry of his carving. He was a spectacle, a freakish oddity.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

The Gospel of Matthew states explicitly that Jesus was of royal blood—a genuine king, the lineal descendant of Solomon and David.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold acquisition of power as Michelangelo Buonarroti's great marble David is a perfect illustration of the human form and divine spirit. Just as Michelangelo did not portray David the murderer and adulterer, I did not represent the entirety of the man I took as my model.

In the early days of the transition, Bannon had encouraged the Trump team to read David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.

In today's church our primary focus has been on kingly duties such as winning our neighborhoods to the Lord and bringing the nations into the harvest. This is fantastic and worth giving our best to. Nevertheless, we cannot overlook the priestly dimension as emphasized in the tabernacle of David.This is extremely important because I believe that God will restore the priestly function of the tabernacle of David before the fullness of kingly power comes into manifestation.

Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-

In the Hilton in Scottsdale, we fell back on any opportunity for a wager – I recall David riding a motorbike through our hotel restaurant for one particular bet. The diners either thought that this was normal, or that he was packing a gun, because they completely ignored him.

the real Van Halen died with the departure of David. I say that as both a compliment and a condemnation, for David's exit brought about the wreckage of a band that was at the height of its powers and popularity and could have dominated the music scene for another decade had common sense and reason prevailed.

David had talked about his desire to "humanize" his family, but one problem for the Sacklers was that, unlike a lot of human beings, they didn't seem to learn from what they saw transpiring in the world around them.

What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.

It was not puny little David against this awesome giant. No, it was this puny little giant against the God who is the sum and definition of all that is awesome.

Hope isn't a thing. Hope isn't a set of circumstances. Hope isn't first a set of ideas. Hope is a person, and his name is Jesus.

Ziggy was David's homage to the outsider; the main inspiration was undoubtedly Iggy, the singer with whom David was obsessed and whose doomed, Dionysian career path had already built its own mythology. David was well aware that Iggy, too, was a mere creation—for in their first meeting, David had learned the scary, gold-and-glitter-spattered facade hid another persona—the urbane Jim Osterberg, who was disconcertingly reminiscent of Jimmy Stewart.

In later months, Davies thought about the manifesto. There were gaps in it, bits that didn't make sense, and he wondered if David knew that and decided it didn't matter. Later still he realized what David had been doing: "He'd read about Elvis, and he'd read about Hollywood in the thirties and forties, and he was building a brand—before that language had even been invented.

Marc Bolan—name-dropped in the line "the DJ was playing some get-it-on rock 'n' roll"—had camped it up on Top of the Pops first, but he was cute, unthreatening; David and the Spiders were dangerous, a warning to lock up not only your daughters but also your sons.

David's passion was turned toward Bathshcba, which resulted in an affair.

With all due respect to Israel's primo king, David and I are not on the same page here. I'm more with the seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal, who lived when modern science was coming into its own, and who had public nervous breakdowns in his Pensées such as: "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.