List of Topics starting with [D]

The timeless challenge in the real world is to help less-talented people transcend their limitations.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their ...

This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc

Basch: So why don't you ask her out?The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.-So what? What have you got to lose?-The ...

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure ...

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was ...

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia's stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively ...

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, ...

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan ...

Rubbing the ointment into the creases of his knuckles, massaging

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one ...

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our ...

People in a hurry get noticed.

I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here ...

But by the grace of God I am what I am."~1 Corinthians 15:10"Paul was alluding here to his honest response to those who were constantly ...

I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all ...

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift ...

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He ...

Deathstorm sees Power Ring as a fascinating experiment. Deathstorm is a scientist who's been merged with the dead body of his lab assistant. It's given ...

We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold ...

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the ...

And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, ...

Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of ...

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 ...

You have a lovely castle," she noted, looking around while sitting on a couch and crossing her legs before she tipped her face up to ...

It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. ...

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Grow or Die - Don't let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.

Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, ...

You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you ...

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function ...

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled ...

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!

The unknown secrets of a man will be unknown forever, unless the man reveals by himself.No one can peep, deep inside the mind and look ...

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment ...

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the ...

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a ...

And in the evening, everywhereAlong the roadside, up and down,I see the golden torches flareLike lighted street-lamps in the town.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut ...

Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?""What?" ...

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

They were unconvinced of the power of giants.

It was the best night ever.And they hadn't talked about any of it since.

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get ...

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find ...

Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she'd used as a crutch for so many years, but with ...

Do not settle for letting these waves settle, or the dust to collect in your veins.

You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going ...

No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, ...

I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution.

Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said. "Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted. "Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said. ...

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts ...

Amor es despertar a una mujer y que no se indigne.(Love is when you wake up a woman and she is not mad at you.)

Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.

Her the legal authority

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to ...

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The world will hate us. That's okay. We've been prayed for to be kept. Do you think God will honor Christ's prayer? If He's going ...

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

We are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good.

Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, ...

The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her ...

It is a weakening and discoloring idea that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time but that it is too late for us. ...

David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate of the personal, the diurnal minutiae, and forget the ...

I know you never met me, and I know you don't know my name, but I am from you, and I just wish you could ...

The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the ...

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was ...

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.

You have a lovely castle," she noted, looking around while sitting on a couch and crossing her legs before she tipped her face up to ...

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided ...

My fate is a prison. It's the only one of us who didn't need to inhabit one. I took your responsibility for those souls for ...

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, ...

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking ...

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his ...

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, ...

But deep down inside me, I wanted . . . I needed it. I couldn't help but act on it. The urge was so strong ...

As a chef I'm not your dietitian or your ethicist, I'm in the pleasure business.