“My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“I don't particularly like confrontation. Unfortunately, confrontation seems to like me quite a lot.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“Sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“You'll learn far more by listening than you ever will by speaking.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“The beauty of physical pain is that it wipes out the other forms of pain.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“Sometimes, girls, you have to hit your lowest low just before you hit your highest high. It makes you appreciate the good things so much more.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“Pain is the great equalizer, the cure to mental anguish, the antidote for a hopeful heart.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“I haven't done anything, except be born.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“He throws his hands up in a request for mercy, I'm not in the mood so I stab him in the heart.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“No beast of reality, or creature of imagination, is as terrible as mankind. Or as loving. It’s a contradiction. I’ve always liked contradictions. Today I see both sides of the coin unveiled in gruesome and beautiful imagery, captured by my eyes and filed away in my mind, like still shots taken by a world-renowned photographer.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“I find that the less emotion I put into life, the less the past seems to hurt.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“It's like my mind knows to stay as far away from him as possible... but my bones, my skin quiver in his presence.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“It's like she was metal and I was a magnet, Roc. But at the same time it felt like someone had shoved an electric wire into my skin and was frying me from the inside. It hurt like hell. No, worse than hell, Roc. And yet, somehow across the distance, through the fence, over the mob of people, I felt a pull to her, even though I knew it would hurt me to be closer to her. I probably would have just let it go, chalked it up to male hormones, but then when she acted so strong, pushed that guy... I don't know, since then I can't get her out of my mind.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“My brain is telling me to stop staring at him, but for some reason I can't. It's almost... instinct... to keep on looking at him.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“the old woman is talking to herself. In between speaking to us, she’s saying things like, “A finger for breakfast, a hand for lunch, an ear for dinner, munch, munch, munch!”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“I don’t think kids should be judged by what their stupid parents do.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“No beast of reality, or creature of imagination, is as terrible as mankind.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
“They can never hope to fight for equality if the very weapons they have to fight are not equal.”
― David Estes, quote from The Moon Dwellers
David Estes
Born place: in El Paso, Texas, The United States
Born date April 13, 1981
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“We spend our incomes for paint and paper, for a hundred trifles, I know not what, and not for the things of a man. Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 't is not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much. Why needs any man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, quote from Nature and Selected Essays
“Being a poet doesn't automatically emasculate you, Claudia.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Revelations
“Life’s small details are the ones that interest me, anyway. The big questions are too hard to parse.”
― Christina Baker Kline, quote from The Way Life Should Be
“Talent by association made him nauseous”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Why didn't Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter's insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks, 'Why have you DECEIVED me?' the Hebrew word is the same one used in chapter 27 to describe what Jacob did to Isaac. Alter then quotes an ancient rabbinical commentator who imagines the conversation the next day between Jacob and Leah. Jacob says to Leah: 'I called out "Rachel" in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to me?' And Leah says to him, 'Your father called out "Esau" in the dark and you answered. Why did you do that to him?' His fury dies on his lips. He sees what it is like to be manipulated and deceived, and he meekly complies with Laban's offer.”
― Timothy J. Keller, quote from Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters
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