David Poole famous quotes

Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.
-- David Poole

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I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
-- David Poole

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.