D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.”
Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
“Defense is not like other discretionary spending.”
“Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.”
“Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him”
“Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.”
“Defense is superior to opulence.”
“Defense is the first act of war.”
“Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.”
“Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.”
“defense lawyers are key in promoting the idea that many convicted of child abuse are innocent”
“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!”
“Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.”
“Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.”
“Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.”
“Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.”
“Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.”
“Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.”
“Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.”
“Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.”
Source: Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
“Defensive driving' meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles”
Source: Killed at the Whim of a Hat
“Defensive mechanisms can make two symmetric kinds of mistakes: they can fail to activate in the presence of a threat (false negatives) or become activated when no threat is present (false positives). Even when defenses are functional and optimally calibrated, errors cannot be completely avoided; given the tradeoffs between the costs of different types of errors, the smoke detector principle suggests that defensive systems should typically evolve to commit more false positives than false negatives.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.”
“Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.”
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
Source: The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens
“Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.”
“Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.”
“Deference and intimacy live far apart.”
“Deference is not a foregone conclusion, but a forelock-tugging one.”
“Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.”
Source: The Works, in Verse and Prose
“Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.”
Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone
“deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.”
Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
“Deferring to what has already been established is simply an appeal to authority. Maintaining the status quo is unimpressive and often discommendable.”
Source: Deities & Dragons
“DeFi boom is a very near equivalent of an apocalyptic event for the traditional financial institutions.”
“DeFi innovation is redefining the way we think about financial intermediaries, empowering users to participate directly and democratically.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“Defi means Decentralized lending and borrowing among other things. Each node in this Defi network is the new meaning of a bank. That means that instead of there being just a few big banks, there will be a multitude of banks embedded in every aspect of society. Every type of business and every type of organization will have a bank and every type of business and every type of organization will offer financial services.”
“Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Defiance is not confidence,' Lili said. 'Bravado is not courage.”
Source: Prince of Time
“Defiance isn't always dramatic—sometimes it's simply surviving with your integrity intact.”
Source: What Happened to the Oranges?: Fifteen Literary Short Stories of Quiet Defiance, Surrealism, and Moral Dilemmas
“Defiance of inclusion in the name of national security, doesn't actually ensure national security, it only halts a nation's growth.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!”
Source: Burned
“Defiance through compliance.”
“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”
“Deficient self-confidence and self respect, develops low self esteem, and induces the need to find faults in others; wisdom and quality self-confidence, engenders one’s ability to find excellence in the traits of others.”
“Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.”
“Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.”
“Deficit spending increases poverty, even when the deficit spending is used for charitable purposes.”
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.”