David Downing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

  • Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

  • If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

  • Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

  • The search is more important than the destination

  • Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

  • Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

  • I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

  • You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  • Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.