D Quotes
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“Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.”
“Demek su başına gelenleri hiç unutamazmış. Bir masal olup yeniden yeniden anlatır, intikam alırmış ... hiçbirimiz bilemedik.”
Source: Deli Kadın Hikâyeleri
“Demelza cominciò a cantare giocosa e con voce profonda: «C’era una vecchia coppia, senza un soldo in tasca, Tweedle, tweedle, go twee.»”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Demelza con la sua femminilità appena sbocciata. Una ragazzina appassionata che si rotolava nella polvere con il suo brutto cane; una ragazza che conduceva dei buoi; una donna... il resto aveva davvero importanza?”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.”
Source: Demelza
“Demented by uncertainty,
Fidgeted by certainty,
That's how we abide by what we call destiny.”
“Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?”
“Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.”
“Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.”
“Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.”
“Dementia isn’t the only place that memories are found to be flawed—people find out they can’t rely on their memories every day. People blindsided in relationships. People who find out their truth is a lie. People pulled from trauma. People awakened, as in Anna and Eve. I wondered: If you can’t use memories to steer your life, what can you use? I didn’t know. It was why I had to write this book.”
“Dementia was like a truth serum.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Demento's laugh is wildflowers and bourbon on an autumns day just before winter comes to take it all away.”
Source: Sleight of Hand
“Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.”
“Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Demeter's Grove was a "new age" kind of store, as they were calling them these days, and Autumn sold everything from incense and candles to especially elemental stones to clothing to books. She was used to inviting all kinds of strangers and friends into her kitchen; demonstrations- cooking, baking, tincture or poultice-making- were another dimension of her business.”
Source: When Autumn Leaves
“DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.”
“Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
Source: The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Demi is my best friend in the whole wide world, the media needs to back off and let the girl relax.”
“Demi means you need to have a connection with someone before you can have romantic and/or sexual attraction,” Serge said. “And dude, you have a connection with him. Like a hard-core connection. You’re connecting all over the place.”
“That’s not what this is,” Josy said faintly, though he was starting to doubt his own words.
“You care about him, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Do you want to hold his hand?”
“Oh yeah.”
“Hug him?”
“Such good hugs,” Josy whispered fervently.
“Kiss him?”
Yes. Yes he did.
“Holy freaking crap,” Josy breathed. “I find Quincy Moore attractive.”
Xander threw up his hands. “Good god, finally.”
“I think he’s sexy.”
“Good for you, man,” Serge said.
“I want to put my mouth on his mouth.”
“Okay,” Serge said. “That’s… good.”
“He’s hot,” Josy said. “Like, frigging hot. I mean, the whole sex thing can wait or whatever, but goddamn. Have you seen him? I wish I was a blanket so I could lay on top of him all the time and keep him warm.”
Source: How to Be a Movie Star
“Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.”
“Demi patted Alec on the back. ‘We’ve got this one—it’ll be easier than copying your homework while you sleep.’ ‘Wait, what?”
“Demi persahabatan! Demi kebaikan hati! Demi sepuluh Galleon per helai rambut-!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Demi tercapainya cita-cita kita, para pemimpin politik tidak boleh lupa bahwa mereka berasal dari rakyat, bukan berada di atas rakyat.”
Source: Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia
“Demikian potret sosok-sosok yang berdedikasi dalam menyunting khazanah keilmuan. Ilmu adalah tujuan mereka; ikatan pikirannya; dan cinta adalah darahnya. Mereka laksana bangunan kokoh yang tersusun dari berbagai raga tapi jiwa merek satu.”
Source: Historiografi Islam: Dari Klasik Hingga Modern
“Demikianlah kepercayaan rakyat! Darimana asal kepercayaan ini, saya tidak tahu dengan pasti.”
Source: Surat-Surat Kartini: Renungan Tentang dan Untuk Bangsanya
“Demikianlah nasib setiap manusia yang dikaruniai Tuhan umur yang panjang. Makin lama hidupnya makin jauhlah dia tercercer di belakang anak, cucu, keluarga, masyarakat, dan bahkan kaumnya; sehingga akhirnya terbaringlah dia seorang diri, dalam kuburnya.”
Source: Memang Jodoh
“Demir Bey, daha ne kadar süre bana tren muamelesi yapmayı düşünüyorsunuz?”
“Trene binip binmeme kararı alana kadar…”
Source: Sen
“Demir ona silah çekmişti ve Süheyla da elbisesini çıkararak ona bazuka ile karşılık vermişti. Demir, ona el bombası atsaydı muhtemelen karşılığını nükleer bomba ile alırdı.”
Source: Sen
“Demir ve karbon bir araya geldiklerinde ortaya çelik çıkar! Daha güçlü ve daha iyi bir şey olmak için çoğu kez başka bir şeyle birleşmek, başka bir şeyin içinde erimek gerekir!”
“Demir yollarındaki vidalara bir bak, bir tanesi bile önemli, bir tanesi bile trenin kaderini değiştirebilir! İşte senin yaşamında da böyle vidalar var, çok küçük, ama kaderine çok büyük etki edecek potansiyele sahip!”
“Demisexual?” Her face, that beautiful face, remains unchanged. Doesn’t shift to
incredulity or boredom. Just understanding. Beautiful understanding and acceptance. “I
know. I won’t press you into anything you don’t want. I love you, Lili. All of you and all
of how you think and live and breathe. Demisexual just means loving differently, and
there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s your everything I love. Not bits and pieces.”
“My everything?”
She nuzzles her forehead beneath my chin. “Yes, your everything. Silly siren.”
Source: Catch Lili Too
“Demnitatea e fara pret, omul incepe prin a ceda in lucrurile marune si sfarseste pierzand tot sensul vietii.”
Source: Blindness
“Demo in democracy means nothing, as demo can mean people, public, or state.” The cat continued, “Democracy is just a system of power and oppression. All power becomes oligarchy or ochlocracy. Charles wanted a republic, not a democracy. He wanted a system that guarantees voting and communal servitude between the state and people. There was no power but social contract. But you wanted power compared to strength.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“Demo: presentation of a specific set of capabilities needed to solve the customer's critical business issue.”
“Democracia não pressupõe igualdade nas qualificações, pois não podemos pôr em pé de igualdade o artesão e o cientista, mas também não podemos ter uns tantos cidadãos a viver ultrajosamente no luxo e outros a viver precariamente, mesmo a morrer de fome e sem abrigo.”
Source: Viagem a Praga no Tempo da Ditadura
“Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.”
“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.”
“Democracies are not very stable.”
“Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.”
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing, in a sense, that we would be willing to submit the direction of our societies to the collective wisdom of an imperfect and frequently disengaged public. How could we be so naïve? To that fair question, we must reply: how could anyone be so gullible as permanently to entrust power—an inherently corrupting force—to a single leader or party? When a dictator abuses his authority, there is no legal way to stop him. When a free society falters, we still have the ability--through open debate and the selection of new leaders--to remedy those shortcomings. We still have time to pick a better egg. That is democracy's comparative advantage, and it should be recognized and preserved.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.”
“Democracies claim that they do not subscribe to the lie of patriarchy but hold everyone equal. A society of equals votes for one man to be held a limited superior for a limited time, in order to govern not as a divine appointee, but as the people's choice. But patriarchal thinking, with its idolisation of power a belief in transcendence, permeates all societies and cannot simply be ignored. Power cliques develop in patriarchies, and soon enough become supreme, even over the elected governor. In our time, these cliques are multinational corporations. Politics cannot change unless patriarchy ceases to be the primary structure of our thought.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Democracies die behind closed doors.”
“Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.”
“Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.”
“Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.”
“Democracies don't go to war.”