List of Topics starting with [D]

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap ...

I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever ...

I love green juices - the ones that include lots of actual greens and don't include too much apple. Because those are just meant to ...

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is ...

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason ...

Lessened theory of mind processing has also been linked to paranoia. After all, if one does not accurately model the mental state of another, one ...

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will ...

I met Anne in the autumn ... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to ...

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker ...

There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.

Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who ...

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's ...

You have to stop drawing on things!"Teena was yelling. "Paper only, okay? Not walls. Not faces. Not Mrs. Reynold's dog. Not my pants.""I was doing ...

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If ...

Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the ...

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in ...

Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's ...

This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [ ... ] And as for our own history, ...

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

I'm a Browncoat, man." "More like turncoat," Daltry said, and laughed. Flecks of spittle hit Bilbo in the face.

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. ...

The Alchemists' beliefs are my beliefs," I say quickly.She arched an eyebrow. "Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs."I'd never thought ...

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as ...

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew ...

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women ... in our culture, that wasn't ...

Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.[Lat., Pluris ...

Um ... I am the ghoooooost of your dauuuuuuuughter! My spirit haunts the earthly realm! I shall never be at peace ... unless I have ...

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth ...

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I ...

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children ...

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my ...

I know you're in love, but don't let any man steamroll you. When all is said and done, marriage is about respect and compromise, but ...

Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.

We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings ...

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier,

A man's greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 ...

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether ...

Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because ...

I love a man with dishpan hands!

Dabblings of a former flame. She doesn't want to involve anyone she cares about in

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with ...

There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double ...

When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or ...

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

The Greatest Pleasure & The Greatest Pain exists in a relationship.

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...

We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

You can't love me without growing old," she finally said. "And I can't know that about you without wanting to cry. And my tears are ...

And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of ...

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

A letter to Dear Abby: I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting pretty expensive and ...

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited ...

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The ...

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn't humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline?

Don't be a luddy-duddy! Don't be a mooncalf! Don't be a jabbernowl! You're not those, are you?

Structuring our feelings helps add reality to them. In fact, para-doxically, many of the invalidating things that people do are attempts to structure us. But ...

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the ...

Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just ...

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows ...

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an ...

A third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causesfor a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a ...

By and large over time, pain turns into grief, grief turns into silence, and silence turns into lonesomeness, as vast and bottomless as the dark ...

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call ...

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, ...

And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.It's like, a baseline level ...

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin was particularly keen ...

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in ...

I've been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what won't. I can ...

Then he said, "Always follow your first instinct about a person, baby girl, and you won't go wrong." At first I didn't understand what he ...

Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really ...

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one ...

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you ...

Don't judge me. You know my name, but not my story.