A Quotes
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“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
Source: Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources
“A doubtful promise is given by those who have nothing to give.”
“A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.”
“A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.”
“A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.”
“A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.”
Source: The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War
“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“A dozen deer stood in the pasture right across the fence. The big buck held his head proud and tall, antlers gathering snow as he watched over his harem.
"Isn't he majestic?" She turned around so she could keep an eyes on him longer.
"Not as majestic as you look in that coat," he said.
"It's a work coat, for God's sake, Finn, and that's a horrible pickup line."
"Just stating facts.”
Source: Cowboy Boots for Christmas: Cowboy Not Included
“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.”
“A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate
“A dozen of weapons in your hands worth nothing if you don't have the courage to face the thugs of your life”
“A dozen or so guests gathered in the conservatory for breakfast. The sweet scent of jasmine perfumed the air and an aviary of lemon yellow canaries sang for them. They drank fresh-squeezed juice that smelled like orange blossoms and spooned perfect bites of soft-boiled eggs from fragile shells. White sunlight poured through the glass dome above their heads like an affirmation from heaven, and a constant breeze blew over them as though fanned by invisible servants.
Beyond the open doors stretched emerald lawn. Beyond the lawn, the ocean, blue as a robin's egg.”
Source: The Rock Orchard
“A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.”
“A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.”
“A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.”
“A drafty, cold Victorian house in the middle of the countryside was nothing but solitude, peaceful but secluded, a place which hid and fueled the darkness in my mind.”
Source: Ashes
“A dragon for a familiar!" Trom exclaimed.
"That's what I said to her or close to it anyway," the dragon said.
"You're supposed to be helping me make you my familiar," I said to the dragon.
"Yeah, I know; I meant for that to sound better than it did," the dragon replied.”
Source: Mortal Realm Witch: Learning about Magic
“A dragon grows in leaps and bounds,
Like troubles mounting by the pound.
Its stature heightens day to day,
Imposing dread and deep dismay.
A paralyzing roar it gains
While from its snout hot fire rains.
It sees you shrink. Your fear it knows.
And by the hour the nightmare grows.
Unless you slay the dragon soon,
Your troubles may become your doom.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“A dragon is a beast."
"If girls can be wolves, can't men be beasts?”
Source: The Wolf and the Woodsman
“A dragon is a norn’s best friend. Norn saying.”
“A dragon just gave me a piece of jewelry,” she said. She took another swig and handed the bottle back to Graydon. “Have I been added to his hoard?”
He shook his head and drank too. “No, cupcake,” he said. “I’m pretty sure you’ve replaced it.”
Source: Dragon Bound
“A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.”
Source: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
“A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.”
Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats
“A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.”
“A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.”
“A Drama Queen cannot exist without an audience.”
“A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.”
“A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.”
“A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.”
“A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.”
“A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.”
“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.”
“A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.”
Source: the new industrial state
“A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.”
“A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.”
“A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.”
“A drawing has never killed anyone.”
“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.”
“A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
“A drawing of a tree shows not a tree, but a tree being looked at. From each glance, a drawing assembles a little evidence. But it consists of many glances, seen together.
If one accepts the metaphor of time as a flow, a river, then the act of drawing—by driving upstream—achieves the stationary. A photograph is static because it has stopped time. A drawing is static because it encompasses time.”
“A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.”
Source: The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings