List of Topics starting with [D]

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

I am naked and a beggar and an atom in the vortex of humanity.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, ...

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next ...

You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my ...

With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto ...

Think, in this batter'd CaravanseraiWhose portals are alternate Night and Day,How Sultan after Sultan with his PompAbode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, ...

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would ...

The shift from government (state power on its own) to governance (a broader configuration of state and key elements in civil society) has therefore been ...

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if ...

Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self ...

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. ...

If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the "last piece," for God's sake stop talking about revival, ...

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you ...

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to ...

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously ...

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of ...

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and ...

I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give ...

I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that ...

I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can ...

Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

You're crazy, you know. That's what falling in love is all about - being vulnerable. Leaning on someone else. You don't lose yourself in the ...

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense ...

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf.Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene?Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, ...

You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...

Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer), because it's every ...

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be ...

More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks ...

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and ...

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so ...

She went up to her room, disembarrassed herself of her finery,

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed ...

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy ...

Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had ...

Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

There is no stress, anxiety or fear; it's our mind's game with our heart to dare. Change your perception and don't let your mind wander.

Dedicating time to care for yourself shows you that you are worth caring for. You are worth working for. You are worth loving, and when ...

Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. (in discussion with Franz Marc ...

Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.[Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]

It's not real until it's secured" -Greg Turnquist, Devnexus 2015

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed ...

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone

That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its ...

Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in ...

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure ...

Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly ...

I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death. I never saw a woman so altered; ...

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is ...

So whenever I feel frustrated or angry, I remind myself that it is blocking me from my life.

Just call me 'Shoppin Bag Drizzy'. And call me 'Mr Damn, He Aint Coppin That Is He?'

I used to sing lullabies to voodoo dolls I kept in a chapel. Clearly, I have no place judging you." -Lucus

Destroying your enemies - even destroying a planet - was understandable. But this wasn't simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the ...

One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at ...

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru.

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are ...

I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to ...

Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's ...

Ame when this is all over we need to have a serious discussion about Mike. I think he has way too much frosting on his ...

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring ...

The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up!

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived ...

I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the ...

Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it ...

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust ...

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined ...

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in ...

I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

You can't earn honour by getting an award from a dishonourable person! You only earn dishonour!

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader ...

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a ...

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else ...

You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question ...

Sweet Phosphor, bring the dayWhose conquering rayMay chase these fogs;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Light will repayThe wrongs of night;Sweet Phosphor, bring ...

While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 ...

Religions, moral systems, her own included, wee like peaks in a dense mountain range seen from a great ditance, none obviously higher, more important, truer ...

When we talk about others, we should be very careful to observe our motive - especially if we're talking about a person who isn't present.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here ...