D Quotes
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“Debes estar dispuesto a perderlo todo. Debes estar dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo. Tus posesiones, tu reputación y tu vida. El mundo no congenia bien con los que avanzan a medias.”
Source: Sé Buda
“Debes haberte preguntado muchas veces por qué el Enemigo no hace más uso de Sus poderes para hacerse sensiblemente presente a las almas humanas. Para Él, sería inútil meramente dominar una voluntad humana. Las criaturas han de ser una con Él, pero también ellas mismas. Él quiere que aprendan a andar y debe, por tanto, retirar Su mano; y sólo con que de verdad exista en ellos la voluntad de andar, se siente complacido hasta por sus tropezones. De ahí que las oraciones ofrecidas en estado de sequía sean las que más le agradan.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Debes prestarle atención a tu corazón, aunque no sepas adonde van a conducirte sus dictados. Hacer otra cosa sería abrirle la puerta a la tristeza.”
Source: Silent on the Moor
“Debes tener cuidado a la hora de ayudar a ciertas personas. El límite entre ser útil y ser utilizado es a veces imperceptible. ¿Me explico?”
“Debi had just asked the world's peppiest hacker to help. What could possibly go wrong?”
Source: Fight By The Team
“Debilitating guilt crushed Gabriel every time he interacted with Morgan. The Ange'el's affection for the human was weakening his mandate to control her movements and influence her decisions. His task was, once again, to deceive and manipulate. He seemed destined to betray the confidence of those he held most dear.”
Source: Gravitational Pull
“Debilitating thoughts spell doom for the process of recovery.”
“Debiste permitir
la proximidad de otro
que buscara sentir la respiración en tu mejilla
que observara con detenimiento
para verificar los movimientos de tu pecho.
Debiste permitirle
el boca
a boca.
Debiste abrazar en él, la vida.”
Source: Rómpase en caso de
“Debit the knowledge; credit the books.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Debo un recuerdo entusiasta a las personas que me han enseñado. De hecho, el latín studium significaba “afición, afán, afecto”. Aunque parezca una paradoja, en educación hay expertos en la afición. Me refiero, claro a los profesores. Recuerdo clases en las que creía sentir que mis pensamientos bullían a calor de las de las palabras de maestros que nunca olvidaré.”
Source: Los sueños de mis fantasmas
“Deborah Dawson of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Biometry and Epidemiology, once lamented the lack of credible data in the study of addiction treatment: “Few, if any, studies have assessed the impact of different types of treatment on both the probability and rapidity of recovery, i.e. on person-years of dependence averted.”5 Her principal complaint: the lack of controls in most AA studies.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters. This book made me feel like I was right there in the beauty salon, sharing in the tears and laughter as, outside my door, an entire country changed. KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL is inspiring, exciting, and not to be missed.”
“Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did.”
“Debout, face à elle, se tenait la raison de tous ses tourments, celui qui lui avait fait connaître le paradis mais surtout l'enfer.”
Source: Séduire & Conquérir
“Debra Bokur has written an immersive, thoroughly researched tale of mystery and mythology that will enlighten as well as entertain. It’s honestly been a while since I’ve wanted to be able to physically join the cast of a novel I’m reading, but The Fire Thief had me longing to solve mysteries with Kali and crew in the flesh. Kali herself is a terrific addition to the world of police procedurals, an original and unconventional heroine who is easy to root for. I can’t wait to read more about her!”
“Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be”
“Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.”
“Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.”
Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,
“Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that I'm supposed to be colored. And I said I am colored, colored black, the way I talk, the way I cook, the way I do most everything, and he said but you don't have to be.”
Source: The Wind Done Gone
“Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.”
“Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.”
“Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.”
“Debt has become a part of who we are.”
“Debt is a bottomless sea.”
“Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa”
“Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence - Be Prepared for Trouble.”
Source: 13 Habits.com The tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare: Inspired by Warren Buffett
“Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.”
“Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.”
“Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.”
“Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.”
“Debt is an especially insidious form of coercion - one imposed on citizens who haven't even been born.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Debt is dumb. Cash is king.”
“Debt is just as dangerous in business as it is in personal finance. Entrepreneurs need to be careful not to cripple the businesses they lead with debt. Because one thing debt does well is cripple it's host.”
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Debt is like Cocaine. It will kill you if it becomes a habit. Equity is like Carrots. It will make you healthy if it becomes a habit”
“Debt is normal. Be weird.”
“Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.”
“Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.”
“Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.”
“Debt is often the cost of impatience disguised as necessity.”
“Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.”
“Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.”
“Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.”
“Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.”
“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.”
“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
“Debt is the slavery of the free.”