D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.”
“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Dependence leads to subservience.”
“Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.”
Source: Flaws of Oblivion
“Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...”
Source: Because I Love You
“Dependence starts when we are born and lasts until we die. We accept our dependence as babies and ultimately, with varying degrees of resistance, we accept help when we get to the end of our lives. But in the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those that help rather than need, and broken people need rather than help.
Given enough resources, we can even pay for help and create the mirage that we are completely self-sufficient. But the truth is that no amount of money, influence, resources, or determination will change our physical, emotional, and spiritual dependence on others.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!”
Source: The Prayer of Jabez for Teens
“Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.”
“Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.”
“Dependency does not reduce value but rather grants dignity, a notion fundamentally counter to those for whom the freedom of birds is insulting. God’s glory does not diminish ours, and our dignity is not a threat to God, for God’s own glory, in part, is us. The glory of God is present to things as the graciousness of their being; things are never just themselves, they carry the weight of God along with them.”
Source: Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
“Dependency encourages social problems.”
“Dependency is a fact, not a choice. When two people form an intimate relationship, they regulate each other’s psychological and emotional well-being.”
Source: I Love You, I Hate You. What is wrong with us?
“Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.”
“Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.”
“Dependency is the first obstacle to reaching the land of success.”
“Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.”
Source: Attention Deficit Democracy
“Dependency on drugs is quite easily proclaimed by the so-called intellectual society as lethal, while that very society has been ever-lastingly dependent upon varied forms of ideologies, be it religious, atheistic, political or any other. They say, “don’t do drugs for it’s dangerous for you”, but they never say, “don’t do ideology for it’s dangerous for your society”.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Dependent cultures not only kill the ambition of the people and the organization, they will ultimately drain the energy of the leader and result in the burnout that has killed so many promising careers”
Source: Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact
“Dependent on someone else's approval to feel good can make you always subject to the choices they make in life.”
“Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.”
“DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].”
“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.”
“Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.”
“Depending on how you look at it, even hell can be a paradise, or paradise a hell.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).”
Source: You
“Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.”
“Depending on the contemporary mood, Orwell oscillates from Saint George to George the Seer to George the Sage. What other thinker has been both so fervidly claimed and derided by both the left and right? Who else except Kafka do we credit with having seen the sinister future? When the NSA spying scandal broke in June, Amazon sales of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four vaulted more than 6000 percent. The connection of Big Brother with the NSA might have been hysterical and spurious, but it was also testament to our sentimental, kneejerk affection for Orwell, to the fact that he remains the default scribe whenever our paranoia is fondled by the ominous machinations of realpolitik. The utter clarity and goodness of his intellect seem something of a miracle when one considers how many of his fellow writers botched the most pressing moral and political tests of their time. He could smell bullshit and blood a continent away: When a passel of leftist intellectuals was hailing the Soviet Union as humankind’s only hope, Orwell was persistent in pointing out that Stalin was a monocratic lunatic.”
“Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.”
“Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.”
“Depending on the organization, designing an improved state can also require thick skin, intestinal fortitude, and a hefty dose of courage.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”
Source: Ordinary people
“Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.”
“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”
Source: The Simple Truth
“Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.”
“Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.”
“Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.”
“Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)”
Source: The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide
“Depending on what choices and designs you make right at this moment for today, your day will definitely change.”
Source: I've Decided to Live 120 Years: The Ancient Secret to Longevity, Vitality, and Life Transformation
“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.”
“Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.”
“Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.”
“Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.”
“Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
“Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.”
“Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be public online. I think it also in some way, shape or form allows you to answer questions that otherwise would be lingering and dictate your own path instead of having your path dictated by the media.”
“Depending on what you feed it, your mind
can work for or against you. You will
continue to search in all the wrong places,
somewhere outside of you, until you realize
that everything you see outside has to do with
what is already housed inside you.”
Source: Light Beings: Heaven’s Guide to Self-Realization, of the Spirit, in the Physical World