List of Topics starting with [D]

But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.

Does 'submissive' mean 'baby' in your language, Master Mason? Because I'll have you know ... No, but Dominant does mean lover, caretaker, disciplinarian, and whatever ...

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for ...

Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only ...

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

First we die, the woman says. "Then our bodies are buried. So we die two deaths." "Then in another world, folded inside the living world, ...

When we step out of our Perfect You, we will be in conflict and this will make us frustrated and unhappy, and even temporarily reduce ...

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

Hunt immediately adjusted his hold, bracing her easily. "I thought you looked pale," he remarked, gently stroking back a lock of hair that had fallen ...

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings ...

And we're more valuable to you alive," said Marcus. Delarosa cocked her head to the side. "How?""Because, um ... " Marcus grimaced. "I don't actually ...

Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. When he spotted the approaching figure he rushed down the street, waving a piece of paper ...

Well, then, happy news! Hakuna matata and all that," Ian said cheerily. "We'll rest and have a fine dining moment while we wait." He looked ...

Given the opportunity, every one, at some point in time, will dissapoint you!

Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing ...

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at ...

Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd ...

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and ...

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

Don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ...

You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.

By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though ...

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain

I would say that [David] Petraeus and [Hillary] Clinton are being handled very difficultly by this administration over arguably exactly the same issue, which was ...

I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist,

I feel as much of a stud as ... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but ...

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot ... You want to ...

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me ...

Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach ...

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; ...

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that ...

Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson ...

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very ...

It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be ...

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting ...

Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. ...

For the rest of the night, the Amazon and I talked. Every now and then, she'd drag me to the bathroom, where I'd watch her ...

That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.

As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them ...

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the ...

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders ...

She was disquietingly fluid - fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created ...

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul ...

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's ...

Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would ...

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity ...

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid ...

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite ...

1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in ...

This may sound weird, but the first thing I thought as I watched that ten-feet-tall bronze lady plummet toward my face was, Well, at least ...

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer ...

Let fools the studious despise,There's nothing lost by being wise.

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by ...

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that ...

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully - in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland ...

Wren, come back, please come back. Don't disappear again. I want you here. Stay here.

I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and ...

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, ...

What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit ...

I don't miss the frustration of youth, the anticipation of love and pain, the paralysis of choices still ahead. The pressure of "What are you ...

You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. ...

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Risk every thing in the name of chance and keep well away from everything that offers you a world of comfort ..

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I ...

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and ...

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells ...

No more; unless the next word that thou speak'stHave some malignant power upon my life:If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,As ending ...

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try ...

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing ...

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison ...

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader ...

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed ...

If I'd have been thinking I would have left some Woolite and my delicates by the sink for him to rinse out, but you never ...

I've seen a ghost in my bathroom with no face, this is true by the way, and I had a yo-yo that rolled up a ...