List of Topics starting with [D]

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Arcane knowledge capable of imbuing humans with mystical,

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody ...

The little birds have God for their caterer.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

What is it about guys named Adam?

I've been been richI've been poorRich is betterI've been youngI've been oldYoung is better

Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of ...

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

That's why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls, at least if by 'soul' we mean something indivisible, immutable and potentially eternal. ...

Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.

Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird.

Just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl ...

Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to ...

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the ...

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change ...

Your touch completely, it just means more ... so much more.

He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat.

Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. ...

Mary? She's mine.Yeah, but we had that thing...SHE'S MINE!

Michael Tomlinson's music truly explores the issues of the heart.

Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?' One

His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

You want to stick with what's easy for you. You foresee the amount of work it would take to transform yourself and you're too frightened ...

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something ...

Listen: the dark we've only ever imagined now audible, thrumming, marbled with static like gristly meat. a chorus of engines churns.silence taunts: a dare. everything ...

Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let ...

She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..."Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten ...

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

That which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our ...

Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.

You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie ...

I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a ...

The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful ...

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark ...

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the ...

Just because no one can understand how you speak,Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the ...

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations every day.

I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..

I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the ...

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth ...

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's ...

No matter how high you reach in this life, it is always better to live closer to the earth.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would ...

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. ...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both ...

If you aren't hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven't done something right

Never act in fear nor lose hope.

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to ...

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

I'm too sexy for my cape, too sexy for my fangs. Too sexy

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship")

Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the ...

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

BUT HOW, EXACTLY, did one go about seducing a husband one hardly knew?

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad ...

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff ...

We have had significant success in the reduction of salt in food, but it has to be understood that this can only be achieved working ...

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

All our lives draw in toward a single point and time, not too many miles or years from this room. A point in history when ...

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man ...

I have no trouble walking around. But every once in a while, somebody will come, during the course of the day, and say, 'Oh, I ...

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the ...

Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing ... How odd, ...

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or ...

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.

Why should I help you?" Jardir asked. "Because," the Par'chin said, "we're going to capture a mind demon and make it take us to the ...

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.