List of Topics starting with [D]

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father ...

We don't celebrate the gift of Jesus on Christmas. We celebrate the gifts we get.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind ...

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist ... I have never been an atheist ...

Had said. The DOD and Daedalus believe my mutation wore off. Good news, right? But he's desperate - more so than we realized. If we ...

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than ...

What we now know is that our brains happily reconstruct memories, though we are frequently fooled into thinking that the reconstructions are seamlessly recorded recollections.

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved.Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,Get ...

Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;None know that I am here, deep in the woods;Only the bright moon comes to ...

Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it ...

If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fine to do whatever you want. So ...

Grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry?

The bastards who dommed you before needed rope, and duct tape. All I need is a firm grip in your hair, my lips this close ...

Like most Lebanese, Joumana speaks rapidly, one sentence dovetailing into another, producing guttural words and phrases as if gargling with mouthwash. I prefer slow conversations ...

A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each ...

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?

And suppose you don't like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I'd never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always ...

Don't do stuff that freaks him out, like what you're doing now. Do something that makes him happy.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle ...

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded ...

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming ...

They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and ...

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is ...

He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience

This was a man who'd fought long and hard to keep me, even when I was bent on self-destructing us. This was a man who ...

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, ...

An eye for an eye my friend.

Phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.

I have a loose blueprint of where I want the show to go. I stress, quite frankly to remind myself, that I hold onto that ...

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny ...

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Much Madness Is Divinest SenseMuch Madness is divinest Sense To a discerning Eye Much Sense - the starkest Madness 'Tis the MajorityIn this, as All, ...

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars ...

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it ...

For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company ...

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously ...

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,And yet methinks I have astronomy.But not to tell of good or evil luck,Of plagues, of dearths, ...

Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give ...

Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of ...

You don't get to pick which parts of me you find acceptable and throw away what you don't.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, ...

The robot is not going to want to be switched off because you've given it a goal to achieve and being switched off is a ...

If you can't see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it's just as easy to not see them in ...

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make ...

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and ...

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds.

Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease ...

A teen boy's wet dream, right here, right in front of him. Elliott closed his eyes, trying to reason with his raging erection, which argued, ...

Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can ...

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

You really are pretty stupid sometimes, you know that? I think you must be more man than demon." With that, she stormed off. Sam sat ...

I love winter. The bugs are dead, and the people are indoors.

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in ...

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a ...

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce your grandfather.

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my ...

I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all ...

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound ...

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its ...

The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals ...

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

Should I call the FBI and tell them I found DB Cooper?

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

She put up her posters, which mainly consisted of one five-foot-wide panorama of Diego Luna doing a split on the set of Dirty Dancing: Havana ...

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the ...

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say ...

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, ...

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard ...