List of Topics starting with [D]

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're ...

Southern DADDY - Dandy At Doin' Diapers Y'all!

You just have to take control of your own performance.

The border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention.

You decent?" I pulled the towel up a little higher. "Yes, if my wrinkled toes don't offend." Marco's swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. "Naw, ...

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for loving me in spite of my transgressions and failing. Please continue to guide me away from temptations and into ...

Our crisis is no longer material; it's existential, it's spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don't even know ...

Both of them are overjoyed to see me, which is one of the best parts of owning a dog. Unconditional love and enthusiasm, even when ...

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

A dufus? You married a dufus?""Jah, but he's my dufus and I love him.

The Patron of true Holinesse,Foule Errour doth defeate:Hypocrisie him to entrappe,Doth to his home entreate.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty ...

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If ...

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I ...

A plan will wait until we've camped for the night," I say.From habit, I turn to look for Hector, seeking his quiet approval. I don't ...

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those ...

No, I mean I can smell somebody an' tell if they're gonna die. An old lady taught me how. JeanLouiseFinch, you are going to die ...

Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them even ...

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 ...

Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff ...

I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

You only need to live for your dreams.

For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, ...

Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the ...

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Nothing a recovering addict likes more than a tale of how bad it had been in the old days, and how low a fellow addict ...

There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. ...

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...

Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited ...

Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you?""Fine," said Nick. "We're not ghosts, we're Undefined ...

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was ...

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my ...

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, ...

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic ...

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing ...

The desire that I may have no desirebis itself a desire.

Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or ...

Don't you cry for the lostSmile for the livingGet what you need and give what you'r givenLife's for the living so live itOr you're better ...

Twin flames burn eternal. Destine to shine bright in a united embrace that is set to last for an eternity.

Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin's sons Leonard.

I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's ...

Would you still read me when I become a blank page.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on ...

On the so-called Kissing Bridge in Bassey Park, amid the declarations of school spirit and undyng love, someone had carved the words I WILL KILL ...

Humans appear to have a built-in immune system for threats to their own well-being. If we're about to blame ourselves for bad behavior, our minds ...

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ...

The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may ...

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I ...

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set ...

If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone ...

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 ...

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards ...

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

You see a lot of UFOs with closed eyes and opened mind.

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit ...

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of ...

We're wearing masks, all of us, all of the time. We're presenting a face, a version of ourselves, to the world, to each other. We ...

I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I ...

Soon, my Egyptian princess. Soon, I'll be free to be with you.

When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. ...

He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped ...

Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed ...

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a ...

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines ...

Those he commands move only in command,Nothing in love: now does he feel his titleHang loose about him, like a giant's robeUpon a dwarfish thief

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. ...

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicidethe ...

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any ...

Douleur, one of the many French words that do not translate into English well, which means "the pain of wanting someone you cannot have.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. ...

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a ...

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything.""Maybe you should say that to Michael.""Not funny, Eve," Michael said.Eve raised her ...

He glared at Mr. Diddley's yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he'd like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use ...

Friendship is direactly proportional to relationship, provided love is constant

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable.

In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.

Tombstones grew like ragged, rotting teeth from the mushy grass-covered ground.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things ...

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet ...

So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.