David Teems Quotes & Sayings

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet

If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it. — Michel Thomas

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds. — Temple Grandin

We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do. — Ann Veneman

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution. — Karl Popper

I've been studying drugs for years. — Hunter S. Thompson

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.' — C.S. Lewis

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life. — Frances Moore Lappe

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ... — Anne Askew

Gotta have faith in happy endings. Otherwise, what's the point? — Samanthe Beck

I had a book of Bible stories when I was a kid. There was a picture I'd look at twenty times every day: Jacob wrestles with the angel. I don't really remember the story, or why the wrestling
just the picture. Jacob is young and very strong. The angel is ... a beautiful man, with golden hair and wings, of course. I still dream about it. Many nights. I'm ... It's me. In that struggle. Fierce, and unfair. The angel is not human, and it holds nothing back, so how could anyone human win, what kind of a fight is that? It's not just. Losing means your soul thrown down in the dust, your heart torn out from God's. But you can't not lose. — Tony Kushner

Many twentysomethings assume life will come together quickly after thirty, and maybe it will. But it is still going to be a different life. We imagine that if nothing happens in our twenties then everything is still possible in our thirties. We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later - but not making choices is a choice all the same. — Meg Jay