De, Luc : When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Dalberg-acton, Lord : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of securitenjoyed by minorities.
Dalberg-acton, Lord : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Dalberg-acton, Sir John : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Dalberg-acton, John : Power tends to connect; absolute power connects absolutely.
Dan, Paraphrased From : Bigotry is the harvest of the persistent seeds of intolerance that is planted in ground --- ground that has been plowed by fear and watered by greed.
Darling, Charles John : A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Darwin, Charles : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Darwin, Charles : To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Darwin, Charles : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning-endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved.
Darwin, Charles : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Darwin, Charles : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning-endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved.
Darwin, Charles : It is not the strongest of the species that survive - nor the most intelligent - but the one most responsive to change.
Darwin, Charles : As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Darwin, Charles : The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Daugherty, Duffy : All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Davenport, Charles : Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe.
Davis, Marlys : I didn’t marry you with the thought of spending lunch times together - just breakfast and dinners.
Davis, Angela : In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.
Davis, Richard Harding : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
Davis, Wade : It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Davis, Bette : Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone---but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Davy, Humphrey : The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
De, Irene Claremont : We are new every day.
Defoe, Daniel : It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Defrantz, Anita : Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
Degeneres, Ellen : I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Degeneres, Ellen : Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Degrasse, Donald : In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners.
Degrasse, Donald : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile.
Degrasse, Donald : I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by.
Dekker, Thomas : Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Delacroix, Eugene : The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Deloney, Thomas : God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothee : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Dement, William C. : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Dempsey, Martin : Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability.
Descartes, Rene : If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Descartes, Rene : 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.
Descartes, Rene : Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Deschamps, Eustache : Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Destark, Andre : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
Destark, Andre : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
Devlin, Bernadette : To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Dewey, John : No man's credit is as good as his money.
Dewey, John : For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife.
Dewey, John : Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Diamond, Michael Louis : Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated.
Dickens, Charles : A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Dickens, Charles : He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Dickens, Charles : Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Dickens, Charles : Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Dickinson, Emily : One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.
Dickinson, Emily : A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Diderot, Denis : Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Didion, Joan : To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
Dijkstra, Edsger : Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Diller, Phyllis : Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Diller, Phyllis : In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
Dimnet, Ernest : The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Dirac, Paul : Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star.
Dirac, Paul : Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star.
Disraeli, Benjamin : The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Disraeli, Benjamin : Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Disraeli, Benjamin : The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Disraeli, Benjamin : It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Disraeli, Benjamin : My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Disraeli, Benjamin : We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius : Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Doctorow, E. L. : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.
Doctorow, Cory : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.
Dodd, Susan M. : Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Donaldson, Frederick Lewis : The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity: Worship without sacrifice; Worship without sacrifice.
Donne, John : Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Donne, John : I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Donohue, Ida Oja : Almost the length of the river if past before you learn how to float, at last — before you learn you cannot foreknow the route of the river — not halt its flow.
Donohue, Ida Oja : In the rubble of your trouble lies the seed of what you need.
Dorr, Julia : Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
Dossi, Carlo : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
Dossi, Carlo : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
Dossi, Carlo : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor : A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor : Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Douglas, Norman : Why always, not yet? Do flowers in spring say, not yet?
Douglass, Frederick : If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
Douglass, Frederick : The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Dowd, Maureen : The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Drew, Elizabeth : Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.
Drucker, Peter : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Drucker, Peter : Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Drucker, Peter : The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
Dubay, William : People want dignity, bread, and fairness and see their ruling elites as parasites gorging themselves on the labor of others.
Dubay, William : The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers.
Dubay, William : The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers.
Duncan, Isadora : What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette : One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Dunn, Patricia Irina : A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Dunne, Finley Peter : No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Dunne, Finley Peter : Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Dunov, Peter : If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.
Durant, Will : Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Durant, Will : Civilization exists with geologic consent, subject to change without notice.
Durant, Will : Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
Dyer, Wayne : If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.
Dyke, Henry Van : A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Dyke, Henry Van : Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
Dyke, Henry Van : Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Dyke, Henry Van : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
Dylan, Bob : Come Mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command.
Dylan, Bob : I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.