" 1Malaysia is like Broadband, you are told it exists but you see no proof of it. " - David Alan Bates

" Promises that remain promises are little more than lies. " - David Alan Bates

" When all one does is intimidate, it's a wonder why one never gets what they think they deserve " - David Alan Bates

" Ignorance is bliss, but being ignored is crap. " - David Alan Bates

" Life is perpetuated by Lies, which is why both words are so much alike. " - David Alan Bates

" No, I'm not complaining, but that doesn't mean you're not to blame. " - David Alan Bates

" Sarcasm is the ability to put a dark twist on even the most positive things, and then laughing about it. " - David Alan Bates

" You can never win when your competition is yourself. " - David Alan Bates

" How can one reach heaven if one does not first die. " - David Alan Bates

" A meal finished is a meal enjoyed. " - David Alan Bates

" Good bosses read Dilbert, bad bosses read Dilbert and don't see the correlation. " - David Alan Bates

" Love is when the girlfriend pays for the condoms, but then love has also been described as stupid. " - David Alan Bates

" Is possessiveness a lack of trust or a sign of love? Is it to control or is it to hold on to what one loves most for fear of losing it? " - David Alan Bates

" There's a reason why what you fear scares you. " - David Alan Bates

" You think it's easy to be bad? To cheat, steal and murder? It isn't. If you can find it within yourself to steal from a child or trip an old lady, I'll retract my words and apologise but people are inherently good! " - David Alan Bates

" And it rained for millions of years, and the volcanoes boiled and the oceans cooled, and then there was love? " - David Talbot in Pandora

The Story

There really isn't a story attached to this quote since it itself comes from a book written by Anne Rice but if you know the entire context of David Talbot you may understand better what he may mean.

David Talbot is a fledgling vampire and one time leader of the Talamasca; a group of psychic humans who explore and try to understand the supernatural. Unlike most vampires he was only made when he was about to die of old age and he lived a full and fruitful human life. Hence, his perspective of the world is very much different from most vampires who are 'turned' in the prime of their lives.

When David utters this quote he is talking to Pandora, a vampire of 2000 years. David wants Pandora to write her life story and if I get the true meaning of his quote he is trying to explain that there is always turmoil in life; experiences of joy, hate, anger, happiness etc etc. But, at the end of it all we are always drawn again and again by the feeling of Love. Love is what creates.

While the first part of his quote sounds a lot like something that would have come out of the Book of Genesis (it doesn't) I would like to link it to God's creation of the Earth.

It was not just a matter of saying "Let there be light, let there be water in the oceans and fish in the sea..." That is not creation.

Creation is born out of love and as David explains it, he is saying that yes turmoil and yes a life not perfect but in the end there is always Love.

And if the bible were to be written, David Talbot's quote should be used in the verse where God creates the Earth and where God creates men.

" For it rained for millions of years and the volcanoes spewed destruction into the sky and valley were filled with fire... then there was God and God decided to Love, and thus the storms ceased and the fires died and got made man. "