List of Topics starting with [D]

The highest mountains are those who admire themselves, just because they cost to climb; The ease is boring at all. P. 91

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and ...

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the ...

Rose Gardner, what in heaven's name happened

Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but ...

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

In an era of mass media, it is easy to believe that the more eyeballs, the more impact. But radio, television, and tracts accounted for ...

I remembah when you whuh a tiny baby and I had to lift those tiny legs and wipe the SHIT out of you-ah tuchus. It ...

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some ...

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love to preserve unity! These, these are the roads, the true roads of the Church. Let us listen to this again. ...

Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations ...

What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. ...

Kunley belongs to a spiritual school of thought known as crazy wisdom. Every religion has its branch of crazy wisdom. The Christians have their Fools ...

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say ...

The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and ...

Universitas in modo citharae sit disposita, in qua diversa genera in modo chordarum sit consonantia. The universe is arranged like a cithera, in which different ...

Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or ...

The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider ...

I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog ... Would hump ya.

You don't have to get out. I know how to let myself in," she said."I'll get you at the door and walk you to it ...

Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. ...

Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author ...

The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

Life is all arrivals and departures.

Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet, excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him ...

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism ...

Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.

I don't think my Dad was ready for me to come back home, either. I think it had been a long time since he was ...

I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe ...

Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, ...

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses ...

Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took ...

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

I agreed heartily with him,

Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty.

This was what Ditlev loved: ceaseless gunfire, ceaseless killing, flapping specks in the sky terminated in an orgy of color. The slow drizzle of birds' ...

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, ...

Yeah, well, I don't really want to kick you when you're down, but mostly for some crazy reason"- her face tilts up and she gives ...

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious ...

The alphabet was an invention below stairs.

Stars shining bright above youNight breezes seem to whisper "I love you"Birds singing in the sycamore treeDream a little dream of me

The first step in Overcoming domestic violence begins with recognizing you are in an abusive relationship.

To what a degree this loose mode of classing and denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit for the purposes ...

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can ...

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things

You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz.

There'd never been anyone who could knife him so with a momentary word, and then speak the wound away in the very next moment. If ...

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want ...

There is Carrie Underwood, of course Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift - the three blondes in country music. They inspire me a lot, and just ...

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I ...

I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect.

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking untilthey are finished, so by this time he was saying: "Do you understandthese rights?""No, ...

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their ...

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do ...

Don't tell your problems to people because no one cares anyway , but in fact they pretend !

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and ...

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was ...

Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.

The galleys ... had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to ...

My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a ...

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

She turns to look down at the tiered vineyards and, beyond, the vignette of Florence in the valley as if scooped up on a spoon. ...

He needs us like he needs a mud dauber's nest up his pant leg

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - ...

Someone simply puts his money without analysing anything, then he can be said to a squanderer who does not value his own money.

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf ...

Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay afloat. Trust me. ...

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' ...

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her ...

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

My Grandmother says that love is like a bout of diarrhea, it needs neither an invitation nor privacy.

Word of advice, sister mine. If you want to keep your papers private, don't write 'Private' on the cover. It set the mater right off. ...

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things ...

Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any ...

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how ...

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.

Self-reflection, the ability to make of his own deepest feelings an object which he could set before him and pay it tribute, and, in the ...

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...