DANCING
: To move freely you must be deeply rooted.
DANCING
: Dancing is the body made poetic.
DANGER
: Nothing in life is as exhilarating as to be shot at without results.
DEADLINES
: One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
DEADLINES
: One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
DEADLINES
: I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
DEAFNESS
: Social norms are not taught; they are overheard, but the on thing even the most skilled deaf people cannot do is overhear.
DEATH
: Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
DEATH
: With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.
DEATH
: Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
DEATH
: You never feel so alive as when you are close to death.
DEATH
: As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
DEATH
: You never feel so alive as when you are close to death.
DEATH
: Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
DEATH
: In nature, there is no such thing as death. From each sad moment of decay, some forms of life arise.
DEATH
: Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
DEATH
: The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
DEATH
: The best way to get praise is to die.
DEATH
: It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live.
DEATH
: Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
DEATH
: The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
DEATH
: Adults who are racked with death anxiety are . . . men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality.
DEATH
: Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
DEATH
: On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do.
DEATH - SEPARATION
: Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
DEATH - SEPARATION
: The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death, but in what dies inside while you live.
DEATH PENALTY
: It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
DEBATE
: It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it
DECEPTION
: O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
DECEPTION
: You can hide the fire, but what are you going to do to rid the smoke?
DECEPTION
: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
DECISIIONS
: Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
DECISIONS
: You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
DECISIONS
: I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
DECISIONS
: Choices are the hinges of destiny.
DECISIONS
: You don't get to choose how or when you're going to die. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!.
DECISIONS
: A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
DECISIONS
: Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
DECISIONS
: You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
DECISIONS
: Better to be without logic than without feeling.
DECISIONS
: Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
DECISIONS
: False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
DECISIONS
: It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
DECISIONS
: Deliberation often loses a good chance.
DECISIONS
: A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
DEFEAT
: Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
DEFICIT
: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
DEFICIT
: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
DEFINING
: To define it is to confine it.
DELUSIONS
: No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
DEMOCRACY
: The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
DEMOCRACY
: Free and fair elections are a necessary - but not sufficient - condition of democracy.
DEMOCRACY
: Democracy is a system of constructive contention.
DEMOCRACY
: . . . while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
DEMOCRACY
: The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functionsperformed by private citizens.
DEMOCRACY
: If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
DEMOCRACY
: We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of few. But we can't have both.
DEMOCRACY
: If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
DEMOCRACY
: Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand.
DEMOCRACY
: We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
DEMOCRACY
: The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.
DEMOCRACY
: Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
DEMOCRACY - JUSTICE
: Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
DEMOCRACY - LIBERTY
: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
DEMOCRACY - LIBERTY
: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
DENTISTRY
: Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental.
DESIGN
: Form follows function.
DESPAIR
: Stars cannot shine without darkness.
DESPERATION
: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
DESTINY
: Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
DESTINY
: Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
DESTINY
: Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your wordsyour words become your actionsyour actions become your habitsyour habits become your characteryour character becomes your destiny.
DETERMINATION
: In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
DETERMINATION
: One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
DEVELOPMENT
: Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
DEVIL
: What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent.
DICTIONARIES
: A dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order.
DICTIONARIES
: I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
DICTIONARIES
: Dictionaries are spellbinders.
DICTIONARIES
: I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
DIFFICULTIES
: Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
DIFFICULTIES
: The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
DIFFICULTIES
: The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
DIFFICULTIES
: Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
DIFFICULTIES
: Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
DIPLOMACY
: Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock.
DIPLOMACY - NATIONAL SECURITY
: If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy.
DIPLOMACY - NATIONAL SECURITY
: If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy.
DISABILITIES
: Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
DISABILITIES
: The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
DISABILITIES
: Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
DISAPPOINTMENT
: Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
DISAPPOINTMENT
: Those things that hurt, instruct.
DISBELIEF
: Disbelief is a form of belief.
DISCIPLINE
: Freedom is on the other side of discipline.
DISCIPLINE
: Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing.
DISCONTENT
: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
DISCONTENT
: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
DISCOURAGEMENT
: Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits.
DISCOVERIES
: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen but thinking what nobody has thought.
DISCOVERIES
: Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.
DISCOVERIES
: Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking what no one has thought.
DISCRETION
: Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
DISCRETION
: The better part of valor is discretion.
DISCRIMINATION-COMPASSION
: I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
DISEASE
: Some remedies are worse than the disease.
DISSENT
: The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
DISSENT
: Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
DISTANCE
: A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
DIVERSITY
: It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees -the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life.
DIVERSITY
: Diversity is the art of thinking independently together.
DIVERSITY
: The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
DIVERSITY
: If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
DIVERSITY
: 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.
DIVERSITY
: If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
DIVERSITY
: 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.
DIVERSITY
: The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.
DIVERSITY
: One and Many One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . .
DIVERSITY
: America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
DIVERSITY
: We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
DIVERSITY
: There [is] a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent-we would be welcomed into the American fellowship. [However,] the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names.
DIVERSITY
: Diversity is desirable only in principle, not in practice. Long live diversity . . . as long as it conforms to my standards, my mindset, my view of life, my sense of order.
DIVERSITY
: People differ: Some object to the dancer, and others to the fan.
DIVERSITY - HOMOGENEITY
: The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.
DIVISIVENESS
: We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, 'wheat and chaff go together.'
DIVISIVENESS
: We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, �wheat and chaff go together.�
DIVISIVENESS
: We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex as the Gospel says, �wheat and chaff go together.�
DOCTRINE
: Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
DOGMA
: It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
DOGS
: The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
DOUBT
: Doubt everything. Find your own light.
DOUBT
: 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.
DOUBT
: Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.
DOUBT
: Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
DOUBT
: We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
DRAMA
: A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
DREAMS
: Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
DREAMS
: Happy are those who dream dreams and who are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
DREAMS
: Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
DREAMS
: Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
DREAMS
: Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
DREAMS
: The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
DREAMS
: Some see things as they are and say: Why? I dream things that never were and say: Why not?
DROP IN THE OCEAN
: What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be lessbecause of the missing drop.
DROP IN THE OCEAN
: What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
DROP IN THE OCEAN
: What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
DYING
: You can get busy living, or get busy dying.
DYING
: You can get busy living, or get busy dying.