D Quotes
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“December 1944. The last Christmas for too many young boys. Then off for the forty-day sail to Iwo Jima. The boys of Spearhead had been expertly trained for ten months. They were proficient in the techniques of war. But more important, they were a team, ready to fight for one another. These boys were bonded by feelings stronger than they would have for any other humans in their life.
The vast, specialized city of men — boys, really, but a functioning society of experts now, trained and coordinated and interdependent and ready for its mission — will move out upon the Pacific. Behind them, in safe America, Bing Crosby sang of a white Christmas, just like the ones he used to know. Ahead lay a hot island of black sand, where many of them would ensure a long future of Christmases in America by laying down their lives.”
Source: Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
“December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.”
“December 24, 9pm Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my usual shit.”
Source: Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
“December 25th has become guilt and obligation.”
Source: My own story, Donahue
“December 27, 11:00 p.m.
My Dear America,
I’ve never written a love letter, so forgive me if I fail now. . . .
The simple thing would be to say that I love you. But, in truth, it’s so much more than that. I want you, America. I need you.
I’ve held back so much from you out of fear. I’m afraid that if I show you everything at once, it will overwhelm you, and you’ll run away. I’m afraid that somewhere in the back of your heart is a love for someone else that will never die. I’m afraid that I will make a mistake again, something so huge that you retreat into that silent world of yours. No scolding from a tutor, no lashing from my father, no isolation in my youth has ever hurt me so much as you separating yourself from me.
I keep thinking that it’s there, waiting to come back and strike me. So I’ve held on to all my options, fearing that the moment I wipe them away, you will be standing there with your arms closed, happy to be my friend but unable to be my equal, my queen, my wife.
And for you to be my wife is all I want in the world. I love you. I was afraid to admit it for a long time, but I know it now.
I would never rejoice in the loss of your father, the sadness you’ve felt since he passed, or the emptiness I’ve experienced since you left. But I’m so grateful that you had to go. I’m not sure how long it would have taken for me to figure this out if I hadn’t had to start trying to imagine a life without you. I know now, with absolute certainty, that is nothing I want.
I wish I was as true an artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you’ve become to me. America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion.
You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that’s all it would manage to do.
You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I’ve discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.
I love you, America.
Yours forever,
Maxon”
Source: The One
“December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.”
“December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.”
Source: The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems
“December finds himself again a child
Even as he undergoes his age.
Cold and early darkness now descends,
Embracing sanctuaries of delight.
More and more he stares into the night,
Becoming less and less concerned with ends,
Emblem of the innocent as sage
Restored to wonder by what he must yield.”
“December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.”
Source: Don't Look Behind You
“December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though it’s freezing outside. But, the goodbye is inevitable. May the memories we share with this friend next year be filled with comfort, peace and Love.”
“December is... by Stewart Stafford
December is all that we give,
And whatever we receive,
It is those who surround us,
And those who have taken leave.
December is celebrating light,
Where only darkness dwells,
It is the ripping of wrapping paper,
And tempting culinary smells.
December is letting go,
Of all the past year's fails,
And starting anew in January,
As time again chases its tail.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“December is full of the light and love that you can bring into your life.
A little reminder to be kind to yourself. You can chose to be stressed, or you can choose to let the small stuff go and be peaceful this Holiday season.
I hope you choose peace.”
“December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.”
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
“December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.”
Source: Collected Poems
“December.
The days begin white and glittering with snow---on the roof, the branches of the sycamore, where a robin has taken up residence. It reminds Kate of Robin Redbreast from The Secret Garden---for so many years, her only safe portal to the natural world. Only now does she truly understand her favorite passage, memorized since childhood:
"Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us."
Often, before she leaves for work, she stand outside to watch the sun catch on the white-frosted plants, searching for the robin's red breast. A spot of color against the stark morning. Sometimes, while she watches it flutter, she feels a tugging inside her womb, as if her daughter is responding to its song, anxious to breach the membrane between her mother's body and the outside world.
The robin is not alone in the garden. Starlings skip over the snow, the winter sun varnishing their necks. At the front of the cottage, fieldfares---distinctive with their tawny feathers---chatter in the hedgerows. And of course, crows. So many that they form their own dark canopy of the sycamore, hooded figures watching.”
Source: Weyward
“December was that,the cold winds blowing against the city,the damp clouds made irregular shapes around every hour of suspense.The terrifying snowfalls did swallow the entire Florence.The Sun light beams are kissing the snow fallen roofs, and they made a glittering effect upon the Earth’s surface.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.”
“Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.”
“Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence”
“Decency is judged by our actions not by our words”.”
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.”
“Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.”
“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”
“Decency is when you put yourself before the needs of others, dignity lies in loyalty and humbleness; honor means honesty and openness, possess those and you will be most beautiful.”
Source: Persian Words of Wisdom: Persian Wisdom
“Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
“Decency renders all things tolerable.”
“Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.”
“Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.”
“Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.”
“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
“Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.”
“Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].”
“Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community”
“Decentralization is not the death of control — it’s the rebirth of collective power.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“Decentralization makes technology more complicated and further out of reach for basic users, rather than simpler and more accessible.
While it’s possible to fix this by adding new layers that can speed things up, doing so makes the whole system more centralized, which defeats the purpose.”
Source: Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
“Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Deception and falsehood are attractive when they seem to bolster your case. Don't be trapped by them. Examine the evidence critically and skeptically. Recognize your inherent bias and thinking flaws.”
Source: The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box
“Deception and lies do irreversible damage to relationships.”
“Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.”
Source: The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
“Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“Deception creates an atrocious reality.”
“Deception destroys. Truth restores.”
Source: Rogue Deception: A Rogue Series Novel - Book II
“Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power”
“Deception is a device to control oneself or others by twisting or inventing the truth into an easy acceptable form purely in order to manipulate.”
Source: Life's Impressions
“Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.”
Source: Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II