David Brion Davis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  • People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,

  • There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

  • What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?

  • If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

  • It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  • I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

  • Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

  • I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

  • One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.