List of Topics starting with [D]

Don't worry, Njrea," said Vrem, but everyone went just a little bit still when Trals's raptor got close. Andrea stared down at the wide, yellow ...

Sometimes your soul just can't let go of someone. They mean too much to you. Do you very best to love them from a distance. ...

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. ...

There should be exit interviews for dating. Just a brief evaluation of the highlights and challenges of the relationship, and maybe a few questions like ...

The world is a heartless place but its not always because they dont care. Its sometimes because they don't know what to say or because ...

We see trees - they see only posts and beams.

Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.''I think I saw one in a cave ...

More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

It's the choices you make that construct your future. You can choose to become a victim or you can choose to make decisions that empower ...

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your ...

David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for ...

Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been ...

There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in ...

Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light ...

Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an ...

Be interesting! Even if you have something interesting to say, your delivery can make people read, or run.

The stories, when they were shared, inevitably ended with, I mean, can you believe it? We often could not, but they always proved true.

Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight.

I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I can, then I ...

I look upon meself as ... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies ... I happen to be the piece that ...

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have ...

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the ...

Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what ...

Multiply that scenario by one hundred or one thousand books a year. Using permission, Amazon can fundamentally reconfigure the entire book industry, disintermediating and combining ...

There is a unique pleasure in obedience. The answer of a good conscience brings into the heart a peace and satisfaction that nothing can destroy.

He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would ...

You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is ...

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've ...

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who ...

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong ...

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

I don't want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

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

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings ...

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context ...

Next time you hear that tone of self-regard, you might like to pick up Dispatches for the New York Tribune and read the only reporter ...

There was a time when I feel that I need to take time to know more about the industry, the workings of it. I was ...

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying ...

That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you ...

She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip ...

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe ...

Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through ...

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of a show if it's a hit; they'll stick with ...

Lately ... the Peter Principle has given way to the "Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers ...

Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public ...

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not ...

Like words written in the sand taken away by wavesThousands of years of culture discovered in lost cavesClimbing to a mountain at it's highest peakOut ...

There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on ...

Many of today's youngsters are unaware that in their grandparents' time Kolkata, Dhaka and Chittagong were part of a single entity, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar ...

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, ...

Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith and one's a ...

In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on ...

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man ...

I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a ...

From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel ...

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at ...

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects ...

Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, ...

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation ...

Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we ...

I think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a black eye. In ...

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn ...

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to ...

Never judge someone. Especially if you don't know them, because you don't know what they're going through. And for all you know, your words could ...

Do one of three things.One,go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.Two,go psycho and start bombing-but this will only swing people to the ...

Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things ...

Any dutch oven will work fine - just make sure you can cover the pan with a secure lid to seal.

If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it ...

I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I ...

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

Fuck fate and David's fatalism. I was going to make destiny my bitch.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the ...

We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.

But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.

Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, ...

A child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.

Sloane motioned for him to follow and Dex did, happily, his eyes glued to Sloane's ass. Sweet Aunt Jemima, what he wouldn't give to have ...

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what ...

The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much ...

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

Keep on following your dreams and don't let anyone put you down or tell you that you can't do it!