List of Topics starting with [D]

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, ...

I always think of you, trulyI will forever think of you.- Serge Van Duijnhoven, from With A Sleeping Body

I think one of the great strengths of 'The Flash' is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these ...

If you are in favour of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy.

Here was food for reflection: Kitty had never heard the Chinese spoken of as anything but decadent, dirty, and unspeakable. It was as though the ...

Past is past, and the future is ahead.

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally ...

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so ... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you ...

Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I ...

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?

We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the ...

We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden ... it is the way of the gods ...

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in ...

Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace ...

Never thought I'd see a jaguar brought to its knees by rhino shit. Oberon

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to ...

Diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, ...

To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.

Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let ...

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really ...

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

A book cannot spring to life unless it is being read.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should ...

Oh dear white children, casual as birds,Playing among the ruined languages,So small beside their large confusing words.

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

This morning I heard: the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly, it was ...

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who ...

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

I'm just saying ' He pointed the way that Han appeared to be favoring. 'this doesn't feel right''Yeah, well, we're on a Star Destroyer being ...

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that ...

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.

I'm still playing 'GTA;' the online multiplayer is just fantastic. 'Titanfall,' if you can actually get on, is really good, and I just finished the ...

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

They (Amish) don't take no for an answer.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.n

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

There is no reason why one should believe you should leave out politicians in cricket or any sport for that matter. There are ways and ...

The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ...

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in ...

Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and ...

In the blood of scales and days of kings,Will come a boy to save us all.Let us pray to the gods above, our voices large ...

I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap ...

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be ...

As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude ...

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance ...

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower - suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now ...

Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple ...

I have learned that Nature can be cruel, but I can be crueler!

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. ...

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top ...

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and ...

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

Even if you never increase your physical or social resilience, seeking out more positive emotions every day alone can add a full decade to your ...

I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be ...

He tasted like popcorn, cherry gummy bears, and every decadent, forbidden thing. He tasted like bad choices.

There was an interesting early relationship between physics and biology in which biology helped physics in the discovery of the conservation of energy, which was ...

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.

Our girl is someone who knows the trends before they happen and look online immediately when shows are happening. They love fashion so much, so ...

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think ...

Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!

This new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away ...

To go urgently around, with minimum hindrances or distractions, warning people that the world is heading rapidly in the wrong direction, and doing things which ...

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, ...

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into ...

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

But no carnival can go on for ever.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); ...

I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child ...

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.