Davidman Quotes & Sayings

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. — Joy Davidman

Right now, in this moment, I'm whole again. — Tracy Krimmer

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem. — Condoleezza Rice

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough. — Joy Davidman

I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking. — Jim Ed Brown

When a certain number of people come together and they choose at a moment in time to create a precise emotion in their hearts, that emotion literally can intentionally influence the very fields that sustain the life on planet earth. — Gregg Braden

The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything. — Joy Davidman

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance. — Joy Davidman

It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. — Noel Streatfeild

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money. — Joy Davidman

I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute. — Joy Davidman

Tell me what good touch is and what is bad for I am young and I have no dad. -Jenifer — Durgesh Satpathy

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating. — Joy Davidman

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. — Joy Davidman

You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays. — Andrew Solomon

See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't want that separation anymore. — Joy Davidman

Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged elsewhere, he will batter down your door, walk in and wipe his boots on you. — Hilary Mantel

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. — Joy Davidman

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world. — Sri Chinmoy

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses. — Rita Hayworth

A traveling salesman was driving in the country when his car broke down. He hiked several miles to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if there was a place he could stay overnight. "Sure," said the farmer, "My wife died several years ago, and my two daughters are twenty-one and twenty-three, but they're off to college, and I'm all by myself, so I have lots of room to put you up."
Hearing this, the salesman turned around and started walking back toward the highway.
The farmer called after him, "Didn't you hear what I said? I have lots of room."
"I heard you," said the salesman, "but I think I'm in the wrong joke. — Thomas Cathcart

Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"? — Joy Davidman

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress. — Joy Davidman

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young. — Robert E.Lee

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.
(Epitaph for Joy Davidman) — C.S. Lewis

If you have a gun, unload it. (Mike)
Why? (Nick)
Because if you don't, you're going to shoot this asshole which will only piss him off more. (Mike) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible. — Joy Davidman