D Quotes
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“D’accordo, Parsifal, trova la sacra coppa e versala sulle ferite di Amfortas, chissà che tu non riesca davvero a guarire la sua piaga… O forse sarà invece il contrario, resterai interdetto di fronte alla vista dell’abisso che si è spalancato nel cuore di chi si è conficcato nel petto la Lancia di Longino.”
Source: Black Camelot - La Camelot Nera
“D’Agata non aveva tempo di sognare, perché era ossessionato dal terrore delle cimici. Queste incomode compagne non piacevano a nessuno, naturalmente; ma tutti avevamo finito col farci l’abitudine. Non erano poche e sparse, ma un esercito compatto, che col sopraggiungere della primavera aveva invaso tutti i nostri giacigli: stavano annidate di giorno nelle fenditure dei muri e delle cuccette di legno, e partivano in scorreria non appena cessava il tramestio del giorno. A cedere loro una piccola porzione del nostro sangue, ci saremmo rassegnati di buon grado: era meno facile abituarsi a sentirle correre furtive sul viso e sul corpo, sotto gli abiti. Potevano dormire tranquilli solo quelli che avevano la fortuna di godere di un sonno pesante, e che riuscivano a cadere nell’incoscienza prima che quelle altre si risvegliassero. D’Agata, che era un minuscolo, sobrio, riservato e pulitissimo muratore siciliano, si era ridotto a dormire di giorno, e passava le notti appollaiato sul letto, guardandosi intorno con occhi dilatati dall’orrore, dalla veglia e dall’attenzione spasmodica. Teneva stretto in mano un aggeggio rudimentale, che si era costruito con un bastoncello e un pezzo di rete metallica, e il muro accanto a lui era coperto di una lurida costellazione di macchie sanguigne.
In principio queste sue abitudini erano state derise: aveva forse la pelle più fina di noi altri? Ma poi la pietà aveva prevalso commista con una traccia di invidia; perché, fra tutti noi, D’Agata era il solo il cui nemico fosse concreto, presente, tangibile, suscettibile di essere combattuto, percosso, schiacciato contro il muro.”
“D'altra parte c'era una bella differenza tra le due culture: le donne thailandesi capivano d'istinto lo ieri l'oggi e il domani. Chiamiamola saggezza. Ed erano costanti, pazienti, fedeli. Le donne italiane conoscevano solo l'oggi e avevano la tendenza a crollare se andava male anche solo per un giorno.”
Source: Tre allegri malfattori
“D'altra parte" declamava con enfasi Tilde, "la modernità è parente stretta della poesia, è dunque cosa per artisti e visionari, o al più per un ben nutrito nugolo di streghe".”
Source: Le streghe di Lenzavacche
“D'altra parte, sbaglieremmo a credere che il primo mondo sia qui e il terzo mondo là, che ci sia un secondo mondo altrove e che la subalternità sia sottesa a questa suddivisione. Queste topografie sono ormai saltate, e quello che veniva percepito come un confine, qualcosa che delimita e contiene, ora è un luogo densamente popolato, se non addirittura la definizione stessa di nazione, nella quale le identità si confondono in una direzione che pare del tutto auspicabile. Perché se io sono confusa da te, tu sei già parte di me, e io non sono in nessun luogo senza di te.”
Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.”
Source: King Dork
“D'après la distinction de quelques-uns, la foi nous révélerait le Fils; la connaissance, le Saint-Esprit. Ils n'ont pas pris garde que s'il faut croire véritablement au Fils, à sa qualité de fils, à son avènement, à son incarnation, à la raison de son incarnation et à ses souffrances, il n'est pas moins nécessaire de connaitre quel est le fils de Dieu. Dès lors, pas de connaissance indépendamment de la foi, pas de foi indépendamment de la connaissance. Mais le Père ne va pas non plus sans le Fils; la paternité renferme l'idée du Fils. Or, le Fils est le seul maitre qui puisse nous révéler le Père. Pour croire au Fils, il faut connaitre le Père, auquel appartient le Fils; et pour connaitre d'avance le Père, il faut croire au Fils, parce que c'est le Fils de Dieu qui nous donne la connaissance de Dieu. En effet, c'est le Père qui, par l'intermédiaire du Fils, nous conduit de la foi à la connaissance.”
Source: Miscellanies Book VII: The Greek Text
“D'Artagnan became very pale; he was wounded in his self-love: he thought that it was in his love.”
Source: The Three Musketeers - Volume 1
“D'Artagnan fought three times with Rochefort, and wounded him three times.
'I shall probably kill you the fourth," said he to him, holding out his hand to assist him to rise.
'It is much better both for you and for me to stop where we are,' answered the wounded man. 'Corbleu! I am more your friend than you think - for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut!'
They this time embraced heartily, and without retaining any malice.”
Source: The Three Musketeers - Volume 1
“D'Artagnan guardava meravigliato quell'uomo che metteva il potere illimitato che era nelle sue mani, potere che il re gli aveva affidato, al servizio dei suoi amori.”
Source: I Tre Moschettieri
“D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“D'Artaņanā modās izbrīns: pie cik nestipra pavediena reizēm karājas veselas tautas un daudzu cilvēku liktenis.”
Source: Trīs musketieri
“D'autre part la langue écrite, la langue littéraire, surchargée, pompeuse, pâteuse, prétentieuse, gorgée de digressions ineptes, absconse, évasive, allusive, ne réussissait qu'à lui transmettre un vilain bruit et de vilaines évidences très mal formulées (Black Village p. 123)”
“D'autres amours viendront bien entendu se greffer sur les premières forces aimantes. Mais toutes ces amours ne pourront jamais détruire la priorité historique de notre premier sentiment. La chronologie du cœur est indestructible.”
Source: Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter
“D'autres empires, d'autres États ont péri. J'ai vécu la fin de l'Autriche-Hongrie et de l'Empire britannique. Mais nulle part, on n'a exterminé de façon aussi systématique la fine fleur de la nation, dans l'agriculture, l'industrie et les sciences, tout en forçant les gens cultivés à avoir honte de leur culture.”
Source: Anton
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“D.D.R.C.T. which stands for "Dreams Do Really Come True". Yes, I'm a firm believer about that. I can even stand in a crowd and be an ambassador of Dreams Do Come True Club.”
“D-December never means
E-end, it's the time to
C-celebrate and rejoice
E-express love and joy
M-mesmerize the moments
B- believe in blithe spirit
E- enhance the end and
R- rhyme with the beginnings.”
“D-Determination, Determination is the first step to greatness.
R-Rate, Rate yourself or someone else will rate it for you.
E-Elevator,two roles of an elevator; to lift you up or lift you down, be careful of the friends you choose.
A-Attitude, Attitude defines how far you will go in life.
M-Mind your own business, Learn to mind your own business.”
“D-don't kill me, p-please.
"Kill you"?! For being a barely braincelled, morally challanged, ethnically intolerant, poorly dressed backwards thinker?”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #302
“D'en haut et de loin, c'est vrai que ce n'est qu'une poussière ici mais cette poussière existe, elle est quelque chose. Quelque chose avec son envers et son endroit, son soleil et son ombre, sa vérité et son mensonge. Les vies sur cette terre valent autant que les vies sur les autres terres, n'est-ce pas ?”
Source: Tropique de la violence
“D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.”
“D’improvviso, il mondo attorno a loro tornò ad avere un colore e un profumo ed entrambi si sentirono di nuovo vivi, poiché, in fin dei conti, poco importava chi fossero singolarmente: contava solo che insieme fossero John e Benjamin.”
Source: Gibraltar
“D'inedito profuma ogni cuore,
allo splendore dell'eterna fragranza.”
“D’istinto le venne da abbracciare il ragazzo ma lui si ritrasse: «Mi attacchi il raffreddore!».
Coco non rise più. Il rifiuto la offese. Ma David le afferrò le mani e infine la strinse a sé in un abbraccio caloroso. Sensuale. Le sussurrò nell’orecchio: «Sei speciale. Attaccami pure il raffreddore!».
Coco chiuse gli occhi. Sentì suonare tutti i violini del mondo. L’unico rumore pesante e profondo fu quello del battito del cuore. David aveva un odore buono. Fresco.”
Source: Rossa come l'amore perduto
“D’où, par exemple, l’importance, comme le pointe Jackson Katz, de ne pas utiliser la voix passive qui efface la subjectivité de l’agresseur quand on parle de violence envers les femmes : ne pas dire que les femmes sont battues ; puisqu’elles sont battues par des hommes, dire que des hommes les battent. Ne pas dire que des femmes sont victimes d’agressions sexuelles ; dire que des hommes les ont agressées sexuellement. Et ainsi, faire porter aux hommes leur responsabilité.”
Source: Le boys club
“D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and very, very healthy devotion to one another. Like religion, it can be a spiritually enlightening experience, or it an expression of psychosis. And somewhere in between, it can be tremendously fun.”
“d spoken calmly and without raising my voice but I could see several of them repressing the urge to move back. I smiled mirthlessly: one of these days, Praesi would learn to stop thinking that mercy and ruthlessness were mutually exclusive. I’d made the Forlorn Hope with the intent of deploying it in battle: if it could not be deployed, it could return to the gallows I’d snatched it from. There were only so many chances I was willing to give people.”
“D.T. Suzuki notes that "when Zen wants you to taste the sweetness of sugar, it will put the required article right into your mouth and no further words are said." In this sense, Zen is direct and not intermediated, concrete and not abstract, practical and not theoretical, sensual and not intellectual, down-to-earth and not otherworldly.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“D-Theory of Time, or Digital Presentism, gives us a coherent picture of temporal ontology: In the absence of observers, the arrow of time doesn’t exist -- there’s no cosmic flow of time. In fact, if we are to create high fidelity first-person simulated realities with experiential time predicated on reversible quantum computing for multiplayer virtualities, D-Theory of Time gives us a clear-cut guiding principle for doing just that.”
Source: The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics
“D'un bout du monde à l'autre, d'un bout à l'autre du temps, rien que des hommes qui tournent en rond, gardiens et gardés, qui s'emplissent et qui se vident. Ils ne savent pas pourquoi on les a fichus là. Ils s'imaginent qu'ils payent pour une faute. Que c'est à cause du bon Dieu. Ils n'osent pas s'avouer que c'est à cause de rien du tout. Et pourtant c'est bien plus beau ainsi, bien plus terrible. L'Histoire apparaît enfin dans sa gratuité absolue, dans son inconcevable cruauté. On peut se défendre avec des mots, des théories. Mais c'est tricher. Beuret triche quand il parle du sens de la vie. Ça n'a pas de sens, le sens de la vie. Je ne veux pas tricher. J'ai fait ça toute ma vie. J'en ai assez. Je ne veux plus me défendre contre cette évidence déchirante de l'absurdité. On a construit aussi des philosophies là-dessus. Je sais. Mais j'en ai assez des philosophies, L'absurdité, ça ne se démontre pas, ça ne se raisonne pas, ça ne sert pas à faire des conférences ou des articles dans les revues. On l'éprouve dans tout son être. C'est une révélation vivante qui, à de certains moments intenses, emporte tout.”
Source: La Peau et les Os
“D'un tratto fui grata di avere un uomo solido al mio fianco in un mondo dov'era così facile cadere.”
“D’un tratto gli androidi prodotti dalla Hoffman & Sons parevano più umani degli umani stessi, si mescolavano nel grigio di Londra, tra le carrozze a scoppio e il vapore denso, lasciando in mostra protesi meccaniche come le persone esibivano tratti animali. E non era finita lì, molta gente stava ancora mutando, spariva dalla circolazione per qualche tempo e poi saltava fuori con un aspetto sorprendente.
Cominciai a chiedermi quando sarebbe venuto il mio turno, quale aspetto avrei preso e quanto avrebbe condizionato le nostre vite.”
Source: La Grande Mutazione
“D'un œil sévère, tel un général d'armée s'adonnant à la décimation, je scrutai mon studio à la recherche d'une source potentielle de liquidités. Les objets tremblaient sous mon regard. Pas moi ! Pas moi ! semblaient-ils me dire. Le sort tomba sur le plus jeune : un grille-pain offert à noël et qui ayant adopté les mœurs locales, lisait, le ventre vide, un volume de Jean Racine. Je m'approchai de lui. A ses côtés, la bouilloire électrique poussa un soupir de soulagement. Le grille-pain, comprenant son sort, s'accrocha en pleurant à sa prise électrique. -Quel est mon crime ? Pourquoi m'assassiner ? Qu'ai-je fait ? A quel titre ? Qui te l'a dit ?”
Source: Quand le diable sortit de la salle de bain
“D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.”
Source: The Man Who Laughs
“D’une façon générale, les peaux foncées bénéficient d’une protection contre les ultraviolets les plus agressifs et sont peu susceptibles de développer des cancers. Elles protègent aussi la vitamine B de la destruction par les UV- A. En l’absence de pelage, les hommes ont développé des peaux foncées dans les zones tropicales où ils se sont d’abord développés. Mais cette adaptation s’est transformée en handicap lors de la colonisation de régions peu ensoleillées, car en l’absence de soleil, les peaux colorées ralentissent la synthèse de la vitamine D nécessaire à la fixation du calcium dans le squelette.”
Source: Quand d'autres hommes peuplaient la Terre : nouveaux regards sur nos origines
“D’une main tremblante, elle lui caressa les cheveux. Son cœur se brisait une nouvelle fois. Et ce n’était pas parce qu’il lui confiait qu’elle était la pire chose qui lui soit arrivé. Son cœur saignait pour le petit garçon qu’il avait été, entouré de richesses et pourtant si seul. Ignoré par son père, rejeté par sa belle-mère.”
Source: Séduire & Conquérir
“D. vuelve a mostrar sus fauces de hembra de alcoba. La deseo profundamente. Su cercanía es como una premasturbación. Todo mi ser se reduce a la piel. La peau! La peau! ¡Ni qué decir de lo que daría yo por su cuerpo cuando me mira sonriente! D. tan sucia y superficial. Tan adorable. Tan lejana...”
Source: Diarios
“D’yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!”
Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation of food.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“D'you know what that - (he called Snape something that made Hermoine say "Ron!")" - is making me do? I've got to scrub out the bedpans in the hospital wing. Without magic!" He was breathing deeply, his fists clenched.
"Why couldn't Black have hidden in Snape's office, eh? He could have finished him off for us!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“D'you mind if we get going?' said Strike, checking his watch. 'I told Elin I'll be over tonight.'
'No problem,' said Robin.
Yet for some reason—perhaps due to her headache, perhaps because of the lonely woman sitting in Summerfield among the memories of loved ones who had left her—Robin could easily have wept all over again.”
Source: Career of Evil
“D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.”
“D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.”
“D'Artagnan is the youngest of the four, and they're like his big brothers. They bring him up and teach him the ways of what it's like to be a Musketeer, and he embraces it with open arms.”
“D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan”
“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”
Source: Dragonfly In Amber: (Outlander 2)
“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”
“D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.”
Source: The subtle knife