David Miller:
CLASS OF 1974
Bearden High SchoolClass of 1974
Knoxville, TN
David's Story
David is from Knoxville, Tennessee. David's schools include Bearden High School. David later attended Cleveland State Community College.
Music David likes includes Jack Bruce, Cream: Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker. Books David likes include World Newspapers, Newspaper. Movies David likes include No Country For Old Men, RUSH, The Ghost and the Darkness. TV shows David likes include NFL on CBS, Late Show with David Letterman, HBO Boxing.
One of David's favorite quotes is:"Carlos Santana...if your playing with a full deck you are not having any fun.
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." ~Wayne Dyer
"We chase the people who ignore us, and ignore the people who adore us." Unknown
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
- It's a Wonderful Life
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Jimmy Carter
" Public shows of honor are pleasant, but private ones are pleasanter, because they are above suspicion." - Mark Twain
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right." - Mark Twain
Work 4 a cause, not 4 applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. - - William Lyon Phelps
A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. - Charlie Daniels
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
- Christopher Reeve
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
- George Carlin
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx
Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.
- Mohammed
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Only do what your heart tells you.
- Princess Diana
Violence is not power, but the absence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- Rosa Parks
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish proverb
The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
We can't say that all religions are the same, different religions have different views and fundamental differences. But it does not matter, as all religions are meant to help in bringing about a better world with better and happier human beings. On this level, I think that through different philosophical explanations and approaches, all religions have the same goal and the same potential.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Luck is believing you're lucky.
- Tennessee Williams
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
- Thomas Wolfe
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
- Unknown
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
- Unknown
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
- W. C. Fields
All the world is a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and entrances;
Each man in his time plays many parts.
- William Shakespeare
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened
I'm not here right now, so cry me a river, build me a bridge & get over it.
You dont have to b faster than the bear, u just have to b faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.
"Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering"
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
- Amelia Earhart
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- GeHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King
Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
Sidney and Suzanne Simon
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of lif...Expand for more
e, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bear
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
- Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
- Thomas Paine
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948
- Truman Capote
Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
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The Procrastinator's Creed:
1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.
2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.
3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.
4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.
5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.
6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.
7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.
8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.
9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.
10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.
11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.
12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.
13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.
14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.
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- Unknown
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.
- Warren Buffett
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
- William Penn
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
All the world is a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and entrances;
Each man in his time plays many parts.
- William Shakespeare
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent van Gogh
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby
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For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
- Bill Cosby
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A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
- James Earl Jones
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
- Jimmy Carter
Cowards die many deaths, The brave only one. - Geoge Kennedy".
More about David:"I worked for the Clarion Beach Resort in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea in Florida. I've owned 2 restaurants in Hendersonville, NC. Now I drive a taxi in Knoxville TN with Paradise Taxi, 525-9580, and have a nice uncomplicated life here in KTown.".
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