D Quotes
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“Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof”
Source: Let It Snow
“Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?”
“Department stores have come out with a new size for their clothing line that fits me perfectly. The label reads, XXL-LOL!”
“Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.”
Source: Still Me
“Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.”
“Departure"
Everyone wants to leave— those here long to be there, and many there ache to return here…
There are some who’ve grasped that living is impossible neither here nor there— so they search, in vain, for alternatives.
Few have come to understand that this impossibility of living stems not from geography, but from complicity.
Most who stay or go never part ways with their surrender and quiet compliance— and so they recreate, everywhere they settle, the same conditions and reasons for departure.
Few have realized that all places will remain unlivable as long as the urge to leave is born from a complicit, defeated self…”
Source: سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“Departure"
Everyone wants to leave
Those here want to go there,
and many there are eager to return here…
There are those who understood that living is not possible
neither here nor there,
so, you see them, in vain, searching for alternatives…
Few have understood that the impossibility of living
is a result of complicity not geography,
that most of those who stay or depart
never part ways with their complicity and tendency to surrender,
thus, they recreate the circumstances and the causes of departure
everywhere they go…
Few have understood that all places will remain unlivable
so long as the causes to depart are a result
of a complicit and defeated Self…
[Original poem published in Arabic on June 20, 2024 at ahewar.org]”
“Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.”
“Departure should be sudden.”
“Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.”
Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography
“Departures could be delightful. Pregnant with possibility. Perhaps this urge had something to do with having witnessed a very eccentric Professor father who would be so preoccupied with his internal life, these daily chores and routines just existed in the margins. One did not have to feed them, they had to feed one’s life- a life that added up to being more than a succession of everyday banal routines.”
Source: In The Land of The Lovers
“DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.”
“Depay walks around like he has won 10 European Cups. This attitude... what's it all about?”
“Depeche Mode doesn't mean anything, nor does Eurythmics. Band names aren't supposed to mean anything. I wanted something that wasn't English, and you couldn't get more English than "Elly Jackson."”
“Depend neither on the success of your friends, nor the demise of your enemies.”
Source: Journey Of A True Blade: Assassins In The Refuge
“Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.”
“Depend not on human beings because they change time and again. People who were once close can become estranged. That is the strange thing about life, it changes right in front of your eyes.”
Source: The Extensive Philosophy of Life: Daily Quotes
“Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 23: Sermons 1331-1390
“Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.”
“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”
“Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.”
“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit”
Source: (Don't You) Forget About Me
“Depend on yourself and you'll never be let down.”
“Depend on yourself; you won't be let down.”
“Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”
“Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.”
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”
“Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.”
“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”
“Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.”
Source: God's Good News
“Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.”
“Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.”
“Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.”
“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.”
Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9
“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”
Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9
“Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.”
“Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?”
“Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.”
“Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.”
“Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.”
Source: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants
“Depende de quem contar a história primeiro. Porque a verdade nunca é inocente… é só a versão mais bem contada.”
Source: Depois da última noite
“Depende de ti. Puedes ignorar el pasado; o mirarlo, comprenderlo, y poder cambiar así el futuro.”
Source: Sonidos de algodón
“Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.”
“Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.”
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77”
Source: Carnival For The Dead