List of Topics starting with [D]

Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown ...

Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every ...

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because ...

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one ...

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea ...

The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so ...

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, Anaxantis ...

By reading this, you've given me brief control over your mind.

I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll ...

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;To live and die is all we have to do.

Sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird. There's no sense in sending her through the makeover montage ...

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard

We're literally just beginning to learn how to use satellites to find sites. More and more people are realizing there's this incredible tool.

The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn't going to stop until she'd killed them all.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Dancing is like life. The lessons of one are the lessons of the other.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the ...

During the Reagan years the left fretted about "two hundred billion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see." What were annual deficits under ...

My dear ... " he said almost tenderly, "you haven't begun to learn the worst of me.

His fingertips felt like whispers, telling my skin secrets.

Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh ... in voiceover, ...

I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have ...

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will ...

I don't believe in landing on one genre. That's too limiting. I don't think about that when I'm writing and recording. I just make what ...

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I ...

But it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes.

Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear ...

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ...

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra ...

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he'd never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of ...

Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.

Do not look so surprised, my dear," he said with a grin. "I might be a useless aristocrat, but I'm not a complete simpleton. I ...

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not ...

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred ...

Dare to share and in doing so you multiply your results without even trying ...

I'm not a mama's boy or anything. I'm a full-grown man who only occasionally wears diapers (you have to in an EVA suit).

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in ...

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my ...

History: gossip well told.

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. ...

The doors open and we jump inside from the rooftop just as sirens go off and spotlights cling to us from below. Kylee doesn't even ...

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me ...

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get ...

Rejoice and be glad, you have life, the greatest gift.

Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly,

Seriously, I love the Olympics so much it hurts.

My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at ...

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he ...

In my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.

Everything is Dinky Doo.

I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was ...

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in ...

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats ...

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and ...

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this ...

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or ...

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their ...

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the ...

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions ...

You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our ...

The country is like a great sponge - it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you ...

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you ...

Well," I said, "he drinks a bit. And he's rather fond of sheep. But he might remember the words to the wedding ceremony.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

If a person does not satisfy the need to self-actualization, his satisfaction and anxiety increases

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at ...

You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy ...

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond

The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.

Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, ...

Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're convenient, and cheap, ...

Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword." I say "the keyboard is your machine gun.

You might be a redneck if the richest member of your family bought a house and you have to help take the wheels off of ...

I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through ...

His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill ...

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the ...