D Quotes
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“Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.”
“Debt means enslavement to the past, no matter how much you want to plan well for the future and live according to your own standards today. Unless you're free from the bondage of paying for your past, you can't responsibly live in the present and plan for the future.”
Source: Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living
“Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.”
“Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.”
“Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.”
“Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you should be able to settle your debts for cents on the dollar. You'll also pay a fee to the debt settlement company, usually either a percentage of the total debt you have or a percentage of the total amount forgiven.”
“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.”
“Debtor countries may postpone the inevitable by borrowing from the IMF or U.S. Treasury to buy out bondholders. This saves the latter from taking a loss - leaving the debtor country with debts that are even harder to annul, because they are to foreign governments and international institutions.”
“Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.”
“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”
“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
[Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]”
“Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”
“Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?”
“Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.”
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
“Debugging tip: For server applications, be sure to always specify the -server JVM command line switch when invoking the JVM, even for development and testing. The server JVM performs more optimization than the client JVM, such as hoisting variables out of a loop that are not modified in the loop; code that might appear to work in the development environment (client JVM) can break in the deployment environment (server JVM).”
Source: Java Concurrency in Practice
“Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.”
“Debunking certain things is important, first because you question things, which is always healthy, and second because there's a part that has to do with show biz, which is pretty harmless, but there's another part that has to do with people's vulnerability. That needs to be exposed.”
“Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.”
“Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Debéis saber que solo nos ha enredado el viento
porque también fuimos cometa de cuerdas y colores
y que también aspiramos en su día al velo del cielo
mar sin sombras en el fondo de arenas de los barcos
para clavadistas en acantilado, listos para el salto.
Conformes aceptamos la diagonal de la cuerda al aire
como la ropa blanca al sol del mediodía expuesta
y el temblor de campanas de los huesos descarnados
que traen sonidos de caracolas a las puertas del hogar.”
Source: Casa junto al arrecife
“Debía de ser que los guiones que él estaba escribiendo (escribía mucho) no progresaban. Poner pegas a un texto que un autor legítimo sí había conseguido acabar le debía de calmar las ansias creativas. Le ayudaba a relativizar los escollos que encontraba componiendo la obra propia.”
Source: Tostonazo
“Debía pelear contra la naturaleza humana y obtener una victoria espiritual sobre la tentación que debía soportar en esa nave, donde algunos —por no decir todos— los pecados capitales estaban a la orden para arrastrarlo también a la perdición.”
Source: La Emperatriz
“Debía seguir caminando, seguir en movimiento, alejarme. Al amanecer volverían a iniciar la persecución. Mas en el calor de la acción me repetía «soy libre», y mi voz me hacía compañía”
Source: Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
“Debían vivir al margen de las clases, sin relaciones ni dinero; debían trabajar y permanecer unidos hasta la muerte. Pero Inglaterra les pertenecía.”
Source: Maurice
“Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
“Deca bauljaju u život
Zajedno sa ostalim životnim carstvom
U borbi za opstanak
Jedu buduću decu”
Source: Krugovanje
“Deca se ne igraju, to samo odrasli tako vide. Deca žive.”
“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”
Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel
“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.”
“Decadence also exists because this second generation is not accustomed to the hardships which the previous generation endured.”
Source: Businessman With An Affliction
“Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.”
Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume
“Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on the finishing touches at the end of a process which had begun five hundred years ago, at least. Their intuitive moral desires coincided with the ideals embodied in the formulas of their religion, yet they could live in accordance neither with those deepest impulses nor with the precepts of the religion, because society came in between with all the pressure of its tradition. No one could afford to be honest or generous or merciful because every one of them distrusted all the others; often they had more confidence in a Christian they were meeting for the first time than in a Moslem they had known for years.”
Source: The Spider's House
“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Decadence ... is really just opulence with an expiration date.”
“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Decadence is wonderful.”
“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?”
Source: The Decadent Cookbook
“Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.”
“Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,” and on the day of the Normandy invasion, Franklin Roosevelt prayed to the Almighty for a “peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men.” By contrast, President Trump’s eyes light up when strongmen steamroll opposition, brush aside legal constraints, ignore criticism, and do whatever it takes to get their way.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Decades ago, when cars became a thing, people started imagining about flying cars. They never imagined about internet and smartphones. We extrapolate what we already know. If we know about cars, we imagine about flying cars.”
“Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.”
“Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.”
Source: Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.”
“Decades can pass,
You can move countries,
Wars can be fought,
People can die,
People can change,
But the stars stay the same.
They stay constant,
They are really the only reliable things in life”
Source: Saving Elliot
“Decades from now, Americans will look back at this time, when Data Science was at its infancy, and liken its societal impact to that of the Industrial and Technological Revolutions.”
“Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.”
Source: Half The Sky: How to Change the World