List of Topics starting with [D]

In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in ...

I thought you were makin' small talk about the weather.""When have I ever made small talk with you?""When we first met.""No, I made small talk ...

Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

And this might also sound trivial, but I don't think you'd make attractive children.""Daddy!" I yelled, causing a bit of a stir. I buried my ...

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? ...

She walked up to him, put her arms around his middle and kissed him. "Like I said, I think the game is pointless anyway. We're ...

You can't control who loves you ... you can't let someone love you anymore than you can make someone love you

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you ...

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" ...

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this ...

You can enjoy the journey of life in two ways: you could be the passenger or the driver of life.

Baby, God ain't gonna bless you with another woman's husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her to Anne Frank, I mean because she was dead and I wasn't, because she ...

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as ... as ... " "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," ...

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be ...

The best defense is a good offense.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger ...

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Let us learn to adapt our ways to the generosity of Nature. Let us learn to care, yet without letting care itself bring us down. ...

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

My own parents loved each other very much.

Because in my mind - in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long ...

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without ...

You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress ...

We bless the organized church structures and their meetings. But if there are 10,000 others that meet outside of these ecclesiastical structures, that's wonderful, too. ...

I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life ...

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger ...

I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution ...

For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here

For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: ...

In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ...

May my practice be dedicated to your well-being.

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good. ... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no ...

As the familiar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis goes, We can have democracy in this country, or we can have ...

The object of all great art is beauty, and it makes us nostalgic for God. Whether we consider ourselves people of faith or not, art ...

When the mind is peaceful, hearts will bloom with love.

Then Ordinary understood why he hadn't recognized his Big Dream when it was right in front of him. The lovely city he'd imagined all along ...

The press waited. It looked now like a great big beast. Soon he'd throw a lot of words into it. And in a few hours ...

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten ...

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they ...

Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it ...

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 ...

A couple of ounces ruled your life.

Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific ...

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our ...

Governor Giarod was fairly good at not panicking visibly, but, I had discovered, not good at actually not panicking.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial ...

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

The problem is that conventional questioning and research techniques are designed to confirm known knowns and reduce uncertainty.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt ...

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught ...

Everything is present in the world. However, your 'emotional state' does not allow it to come to you. 'Emotional' as in instability. While going to ...

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, ...

A sign warned her to keep a lookout for river otters, osprey - what the heck were osprey? - and bald eagles.

I am Providence, and Providence is myself together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of ...

He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own ...

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in ...

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, ...

Good gravy on biscuits, girlfriend, you are in the middle of more messes than a platter of scrambled eggs. What's going on? Are the planets ...

We learn not in the school, but in life.

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Choice is the grease in the gears of success.

You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.

We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near ...

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial facultiesthat is, ...

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes-- but sloth will slide us back into the sea.

Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

You get used to... what you want to get used to.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I ...

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them ...

The more you expose, the less personal it becomes

If you have to put a matchbox under your chair, you need to straighten out your floor.

So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate ...

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in ...

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but ...