List of Topics starting with [D]

You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing ...

Trust your hopes, not your fears

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because ...

Cooking is a form of flattery ... a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping ...

A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone. She

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

You cannot fail. You can only get results.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has ...

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

Dentopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to ...

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole ...

You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that ... They get up early, run ...

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just ...

... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past.

The NetI made you many and many a song, Yet never one told all you areIt was as though a net of words Were flung ...

But doing something good or remarkable isn't easy. It's much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the ...

Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you ...

It's describing the mystery of faith. I think it describes how difficult it is to believe in God's presence even when we can't see Him, ...

Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails ...

Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were ...

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house ...

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. ...

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. ...

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent ...

Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto ...

Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself.

Look, let me tell you something, Satan, or whoever you are." "Don't use that name, I hate it." "That's likely to make me pepper my ...

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots ...

The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just ...

I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; ...

The teaching, within most if not all religions, that states that the Divine is omnipresent is the full truth of it. But this is not ...

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even ...

It was a scream, but it was also something like a song, too. It was like all the pain and sorrow in the world was ...

Miss X has always been a ditherer she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Was it cruel if someone asked for it? Begged for it, even? She always begged. Even now, I could hear her whimpering for me. Christ, ...

We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather ...

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that ...

We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

Blight has descended on our regulatory agenciesand a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of Americain the payola mentality, the expense ...

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is ...

There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our ...

I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is ...

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. ...

I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you ...

A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. ...

I wasn't saying you were heartbroken." I sound like English is a new language for me, the way I stutter out the words. "I just ...

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of ...

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text ...

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever ...

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.

We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded ...

... we have bad dreamsbecause our brain is trying to protect us ... If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters ...

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then ...

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder ...

Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - ...

It's easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it's free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to ...

You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. ...

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to ...

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it's doing. ...

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and ...

It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care ...

There is no such thing as too much snow.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I ...

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. ...

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of ...

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it ...

Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the ...

Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped ...

That man was a particular kind of liar. The kind that lies to himself about being a liar. Who is so corrupt, and deluded, he ...

Don't you start, Mercy Lynne. You know vegetablism is one step closer to a world without panties an' preachers. That there is a documentated fact.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was ...

I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

Since they had met, and repeatedly

Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot ...

Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her ...

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, ...