List of Topics starting with [D]

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the ...

That night was my first exposure to the life I was supposed to be living at my age. I dont know, I didn't get it. ...

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go ...

Let my heart always belike it is...this very momentready to explode...with lovea violent rainstorm...with no streamno ocean vast enoughto flow into.

Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. ...

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. ...

We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; ...

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know to expect what I'm expecting to feel yourself alive and dying in your ...

I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in ...

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that ...

Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though ...

Do the thing itself. Don't pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch ...

My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my ...

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American ...

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to ...

I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice ...

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory ...

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does ...

I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June ... but here, now that she's sick, ...

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what ...

You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?""Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a ...

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the ...

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as ...

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

So I start my mission- leave my residenceThinkin how could I get some dead presidents

I let go of the past And took in a deep breath I'm ready to embrace what's next Whatever comes my way I'll find a ...

The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of ...

Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany topped ...

What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side ...

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

Roger nodded. He was too old to hug his dad for long, and returned to his chair. "I'm gay." Saying it out loud was a ...

Do you believe in angels? Real ones?'He strugged. 'I don't think they have feathery wings or anything like that. I think they're people who do ...

When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried ...

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too ...

If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything ...

As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the ...

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you ...

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the darkSo soon, so soon.

Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with ...

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than ...

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he ...

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.

Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

Kiss every baby, and pet every dog. Walk slowly, and lie down when you're tired. What's next?

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But ...

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being ...

So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family ...

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're ...

Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be ...

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and ...

33But n seek first o the kingdom of God and his righteousness, p and all these things will be added to you. 34 q Therefore ...

I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we ...

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her ...

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: ...

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has ...

Islam has rules. Once they are part of your life, you dont notice them anymore.

Perfect! Now we're being chased by hoards of monkeys! Perhaps you would care to name their species as we're attacked, just so I can appreciate ...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just ...

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control ...

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify ...

Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To ...

He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri", the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these ...

I didn't despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn't allow anyone to make me feel bad about that. That ...

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some ...

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once ...

I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the ...

Lada looked up into her father's eyes, deep-set and etched with years of cunning and cruelty. She nodded, then held out her hand. "The daughter ...

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no ...

You get on the bull, and you ride until he sees who the master is. Relentless. Unforgiving. Merciless." ~Kane~

He licked me like a double scoop of French vanilla on a hot summer day. At the equator. He savored me like I could melt ...

Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, ...

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of ...

I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how ...

Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being ...

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!

When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt ...

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most ...

To mourn is to feel a flower's slow death, hill bear. To bed a man is to recall the flower's bright glory.