D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”
“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
“Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.”
“Desigur, viata [...] e, pentru un scriitor tanar, o prada care nu cedeaza daca nu stii de unde sa apuci.”
Source: Viața ca o pradă
“Desilusionar a una persona es como matarte a ti mismo en su interior.”
Source: Las Cenizas de Ícaro
“Desire +Stability = Resolution, Resolution +Hard work=success”
“Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.”
Source: Leviathan
“Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.”
Source: Thirteen Moons
“Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.”
Source: The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
“Desire and dedication are everything!”
“Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.”
“Desire and duty are never far apart—they walk side by side, waiting for us to choose.”
Source: Metro B: A woman’s awakening in the underground of Rome
“Desire and fear: these are the two emotions by which all life in the world is governed.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.”
“Desire and greed are human traits. We are the Beast. And yet.... I wish”
Source: Hunted
“Desire and happiness cannot live together.”
“Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.”
“Desire and longing are the whips of God.”
Source: The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer
“Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.”
“Desire and love are the same thing; save that by desire, we signify the absence of the object; by love, most commonly the presence of the same.”
Source: Leviathan
“Desire and love!
Few desires and few dreams are irrepressible,
Because they arise from minds unknown interactions,
With heart that beats in rhythms unopposable,
To become minds everlasting spell of attractions,
Then as the heart, the mind and the desires homogenize,
They create a world painted with fancy colours,
Where just your face is what the mind and heart recognise,
And the familiar echoes of the breathless lovers,
The heart now dwells in a state of isolationism,
While the mind weaves your thoughts and your imaginations,
To be a subdued disciple of fatalism,
Always engrossed in your incantations,
Where the desire to imagine you in everything is dominant,
Where every heart beat and the mind seeks you,
And with your sensations the entire world gets pregnant,
And I kiss this ubiquitous form where everything now is you,
And now I seek a new exaltation of my mind and heart alike,
That to love you Irma in this world of imagination and the real world too,
It maybe a proposal that Gods may dislike,
But it shall always be so because I love you!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Desire and love have to grapple first with reconstituting themselves in a body that has been altered to its core.”
Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”
Source: On Desire: Why We Want what We Want
“Desire arises when we look to the external world to make our internal world feel better.”
Source: Life Happens To Us: A True Story
“Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don't Expire!”
“Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)
“Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.”
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
Source: Get Rich Collection
“Desire becomes surrender. Surrender becomes Power.”
“Desire, believe and receive it.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Desire, Believe, Receive!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Desire beyond necessity is the cause of all disparities.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Desire blazed, passion raged.”
Source: Hot Blooded: Part 2
“Desire blurred reality.”
Source: Red Wings: A Lust in Paris Novel - Vol. I
“Desire builds me a rotten church to lay down in.”
Source: Father Hunt
“Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.”
Source: The Torture Garden
“Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.”
“Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.”
“Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.”
Source: Medieval fables
“Desire can make anything into a god.”
Source: Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems
“Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.”
“Desire cannot be tamed. That’s what the King told me the first time I was here. Well, King. You should see how untamable love makes you.”
Source: Girls of Paper and Fire
“Desire cannot be understood apart from the contexts, relational and cultural, that shape it. A patient with bulimia, for example, may not desire food as a substitute for mother but, rather, because that is the only available "vocabulary" through which her desire can be expressed. The analyst's task becomes not only to uncover desires that have been defended against but also to help the patient begin to want freely so that, over time, new containers of desire can emerge, both inside and outside the analytic relationship.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“Desire changes its character by 180 degrees. Often, when first aroused, it is felt as the desire to have. The desire to touch is, partly, the desire to lay hands on, to take. Later, transformed, the same desire becomes the desire to be taken, to lose oneself within the desired. From these two opposed moments come one of the dialectics of desire; both moments apply to both sexes and they oscillate. Clearly the second moment, the desire to lose oneself within, is the most abandoned, the most desperate, and it is the one that Caravaggio chose (or was compelled) to reveal in many of his paintings.”
“Desire Comes and desire Goes
Bringing both Highs and lows
Desire Goes and desire Comes
Bringing its promises of Unexpected Pain
Bringing its promises of Glorified Gain”
Source: A Candid Aim
“Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.”
Source: The Women of Marilyn French: Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding Heart
“Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Desire creates its own object.”