List of Topics starting with [D]

In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.

My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.

Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned, I do the poisoning. I'm the Princess of it

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal ...

Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work,

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ...

Don't touch me, I'm diabetic.

I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam ...

The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.

Shy, I can't be fixed. We won't ride off into the sunset. There will be no happy ending.

There is a dramatic conflict in what is commonly called the human sciences. Should we postulate a typical human reality and describe its psychic modalities, ...

The Empire was quickly becoming the other, a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they ...

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. ...

And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft ...

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place ...

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'.

Oh, parts of my body got all kinds of tingly seeing that go down. Kat whipped toward me, her eyes glowing from within. In that ...

What Nietzsche is describing is a kind of transcendence - a mental state of complete and utter absorption well known to artists, athletes, gamblers, musicians, ...

It's a well-known fact that black sheep should never have lambs. You know what you get when you take a black sheep and give it ...

I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. ...

We love even when our love is not requited.

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life ...

But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness.

I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will ...

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be ...

Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning ...

Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know.

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can ...

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

In the end, a man makes his own decisions. You decide, not the machine.

This wasn't how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace and made up ...

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the ...

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they ...

I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Love you, Ty. Every inch of you, baby, everything that is you.

I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at the telescope at ...

We decide our destiny.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their ...

Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, would you mind going back and doing it all over ...

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.

Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house: 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, - Macbeth shall sleep ...

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody ...

Right under the sign that said WELCOME TO GATLIN, HOME OF THE SOUTH'S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC PLANTATION HOMES AND THE WORLD'S BEST BUTTERMILK PIE. I ...

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

When you're by yourself, you realize how much pressure you're under and how much work you have to do.

I had to soften him up because, for whatever reason, all the Rock Chicks had an alternate Hot Bunch guy, Indy's was Eddie. Roxie's was ...

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of ...

It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What ...

I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while ...

One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our ...

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an ...

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, ...

A city sparkles in the nightHow can it glow so bright?The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent lightDesigner skyline in my headAbstract and still well-readYou went ...

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Plus, if you think carefully, when you fall in love with someone not for her lookay, don't you think it's purer? It would last longer ...

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find ...

I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that ...

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords ...

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem ...

Leafless tree branches swayed in that wind, clawing at the sides of the stone dorm like fingernails.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

This is the heart I need. And if I have this - and a little schmaltz - I dont need anything else in the world

Doesn't matter where you go, home is uphill

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Thomas Paine wrote in "The Age of Reason," "In this case, the person who is irreverently called the son of God, and sometimes God himself, ...

If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make ...

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

A man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

It would be better to try to awake the reader's critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to ...

If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your ...

During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of ...

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears notTo wound the fame of princes, if it findBut any blemish in their lives to work on.

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The ...

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not ...