Quotes by Authors - D
Quotes by Authors - D
What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Salvador DaliI do not take drugs. I am drugs.
Rodney DangerfieldWhen I was a kid my parents moved a lot- but I always found them.
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
DanteI love to doubt as well as know.
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Clarence DarrowI do not consider it to be an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure; that is all agnostisism means.
Charles DarwinI cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Robertson Davies(from Tempest-Tost) Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines-- not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.
Eugene V. DebsThe rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Luciano de CrescenzoWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Thomas DekkerO what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Vine Deloria, Jr.When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply Ours.
Lisa Delpit(from Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom) We hear about the birth of a child and ask questions like, "What did she have? How much did it weight?" and "Does it have any hair?" The Athabaskan Indians hear of a birth and ask, "Who came?" From the beginning, there is a respect for the newborn as a full person.
DemosthenesWhat we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Rene DescartesReading all the good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
Miguel de UnamunoLove is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Peter De VriesIt is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
(from Comfort Me With Apples) Gluttony is a form of emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Sir James DewarMinds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open
John DeweyEducation is not preparation for life; Education is life itself.
Charles Dickens(regarding children) It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
(first line of A Tale of Two Cities, 1859) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Emily DickinsonThey say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
We turn not older with years, but newer each day.
Anger as soon as fed is dead/ ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
(Not in Vain)Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
(from Le Neveu de Rameau) We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Marlene DietrichOnce a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Edsger W. DijkstraThe question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Ani DiFrancoI sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Annie DillardHow we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
(from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) Peeping through my keyhole I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.'
Phyllis DillerNever go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Diogenes The CynicIf only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Benjamin DisraeliNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
"Fats" DominoA lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
John DonneNo man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
but is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy.
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again;
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor even chaste, except you ravish me.
One is always an undefined being to oneself however well defined one may be to others.
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in Whining poetry.
DostoevskyThe way up and the way down are the same.
Norman DouglasYou can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Dream of the Rood, borrowed from the wonderful site at Mount Allison UniversityVerse Indeterminate Saxon
Beware the fury of the patient man.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
(from Imitation of Horace)The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated and are not eliminated by violence.
Will DurantEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Bob Dylan, contributed by Dr. Joseph Iaia