List of Topics starting with [D]

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards used to claim that there are "two Americas," the rich and the poor. If Democrats have their way, there ...

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's ...

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Was it possible, she wondered crazily, to prepare for a heart attack? Patty ran her tongue

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.

I want you to keep them open ... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

I've known a lot of people," Realm said. "Not many friends, though. Guess that happens when you're a liar, huh." "We're all liars," James replied. ...

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful ...

If I go to prison, will you arrange conjugal visits?

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question ... at completely different levels.

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many ...

I am not here to entertain straight people.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of ...

Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with ...

Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity ...

One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people ...

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual ...

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be ...

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I ...

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

Language is power. When you turn "torture" into "enhanced interrogation," or murdered children into "collateral damage," you break the power of language to convey meaning, ...

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.

I get superstitious in late summer.

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all ...

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Still bothers me that there's nothing on the news about it," Hilda

I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It's alive and it's right and it's what I will ...

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis I find they act like chains.

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's ...

A baby is a beautiful, blooming, flower that can smile, sing, and dance.

Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.

Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

She had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

How's the victim doing?" "Victim?

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those ...

Everything was illuminated. Everything was connected. Everything was one. Everything was love.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

I guess teachers don't actually live and sleep at the school.

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into ...

The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures ...

Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say ...

A thought is an idea in transit.

Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe ...

I have always been homosexual and it surprises me that more people are not; women's pink bits are moist and forbidding and I enjoy those ...

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

Say NO to nuclear bombs otherwise it may take us all to our tombs.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if ...

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I ...

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...

Lucifier's bloody ball sack, I don't believe it." ~ Bones

He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such ...

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can ...

Fixed mindset is not amenable to change and growth.dogmatic,opinionated.Solution:Allow God and Gods.Let this mind that was in christ ...

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find ...

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect ...

Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of ...

If that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece ...

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only ...

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that ...

Love is a strange concept. That the very sight of someone, the very mention of their name, can cause an intense chemical reaction inside you ...

Dont give up the ship... sell it...

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

No man has your love at heart, they all pretend to be what they are not. They would rather write you out of relevance and ...

The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The ...

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every ...

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a ...

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them ...

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ...

Statistics say that when somebody tells you they love you, that person instantly becomes more likely to kill you than anyone else.

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song," I said. "Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too ...

Shape about the size of a large dog hovering a few yards over his head.

I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. ...

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a ...

The heart, or will, simply is spirit in human beings. It is the human spirit, and the only thing in us that God will accept ...

Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business ...

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from ...