List of Topics starting with [D]

In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something ... ...

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer ...

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody ...

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. ...

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause ...

Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own ...

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

The night sky was dark and cloudy and felt very much like her weeping heart.

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on ...

We are all the same instincts Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing ...

He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been ...

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.

The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of ...

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

The Holy Bible is the Language of Heaven; you cannot use the Language of the World to interpret the Holy Bible.

I promise you this. I'll love you until the day I die even if I have to live without you. And if it's fifty years ...

Leaving the feasibility of testicular transplants alone for the moment, she said, "It was mostly my mistake.

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

As far as he was concerned , Henry's sudden interest was a case of too little too late

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to ...

I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have ...

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and ...

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere ...

Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our ...

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an ...

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Expansive items we crossed off her list.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a ...

As usual, when she has her Kindle in her hand, the world could crumble around her and she wouldn't have a clue.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

What don't kill me will just make me crazier

In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for ...

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face ...

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that ...

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

He made me feel.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at ...

They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.

American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on.

If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I ...

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though.""What help?"Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful ...

If you would have watched her from the roof, you would have seen a broad grin over her face.

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from ...

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest ...

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

You might be the scariest girl I've ever met," he told her."Let's not be dramatic," she said drily. "I'm the only girl you can remember ...

Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto ...

Luke glanced at me, his expression oddly light. "Shh, pretty girl. Let's enjoy ourselves for a bit before you start riddling again ".

Here were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.

Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for ...

90% of everything is crap.

You could achieve nothing with wondered mind! you need to stop it!

She doesn't like you, McNab.I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

My mistress had taught me the precepts of God's Word: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto ...

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as ...

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll ...

I wish we had somebody here who never would be missed. Regrettably we are all friends.

Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

Have we as a group ever met a warning we didn't ignore?

We all should accept what the earth gives freely. It is an act of grace.

This guy was flipping my bitch switch like nothing else.

Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.

I'm a wild lady. Not.

...strangely alone in the most public of places.

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are ...

Hang there like fruit, my soul,Till the tree die.

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to ...

They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although ...

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, ...

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that ...

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

He hurt you because your strength made him feel weak. No other reason.