D Quotes
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“Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
“DESPERTANDO A LA ALBORADA
La alborada está cerca
Aquí te encuentro
Aquí te saludo
En este sagrado,
Infinito espacio
Oh, cómo siento tu abrazo.
Esto es para saborear la grandeza
de tus errores –
Tus dulces canciones de alegría
De un amor
Al cual le temo;
Pues, con tal amor
Nada es una pérdida
Lecciones aprendidas
Viajes que queman
Con una flama
Que es la única verdad
La palabra no dicha.
Te veo
Te siento
Dentro de mi Alma
Nos encontramos
Tú caminas conmigo
Me guías
A las puertas
de nuestra sabiduría
Nuestra verdad
Donde el amor siempre ha vencido
Nosotros quemamos con la luz del infinito
Cielos
Noches
Canciones
Poemas
Amor
Juntos,
nosotros abrimos
La Puerta
de la sabiduría
Corazón
Alma
Espíritu
Me conectan
Me unen
Al espacio infinito
Amor
La Unidad infinita
Aquí
te amo
Nos encontramos
Abrazo
Sabor
Unidad infinita
Abre la puerta
El sagrado portal
Ten fe
Pues nunca es demasiado tarde para despertar
La alborada está cerca.”
“Despertar en el estado de Dios hace que todas las limitaciones percepción de la mente desaparezcan, al igual que un cubo de agua turbia se vuelve cristalina una vez que se vierte en el océano.”
Source: Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
“DESPERTAR
La única verdad
Es la infinitud
La flor
El único
Aliento sagrado
Y la belleza
Todos son uno
Despertamos
Nosotros somos el Único
Vemos
Nuestra verdadera divinidad
Oh, sagrado
Nosotros somos Uno.
Da el paso sagrado
Respira la esencia infinita
Retorna a quien tú eres
Y despierta en este estado.”
“Despertei meus olhos pro mundo e degradado estou pelas visões.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Desperto um belo dia no mundo e me atribuo um único direito: exigir do outro um comportamento humano. Um único dever: o de nunca, através de minhas opções, renegar minha liberdade.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead?”
“DESPIERTA A LA BELLEZA
Comunícate con el rocío de tu Alma,
despierta a todo de ti –
tu belleza.
Es tu esencia única que sostiene
tu fragancia que se mantiene
ahora en este continuo presente.
Tú eres bello.
Ámate a ti mismo.
Llega a conocerte,
cada día más.
Enseña lo mismo a tus hijos.
La Tierra se deleita en sus hermosas flores.
Tú eres una hermosa flor.
¿Florecerás?”
“Despierta, comienza a caminar y no te detengas hasta que el mundo se levante.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“DESPIERTA
Como la alborada está aquí
el momento está cerca
Invoca a tus
Guías
Espíritu
Yo más alto
El sol dentro de todos
Y cada
Uno
De nosotros
Se asomará y brillará
Suéltate,
Libérate
Extiende
Tus brazos
Ríndete
Al abrazo
De la infinitud
Todo dentro
De este sabor
De amor y libertad
Libéralo
Ahora
Camina conmigo
Habla conmigo
Está conmigo
Respira conmigo
Espíritu
Guíame.”
“Despierta, levántate, eleva el mundo!”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Despina edged closer. “When I was a little girl in Thebes, I remember asking my mother what heaven was. She replied, ‘A heart where love dwells.’ Of course, I then demanded to know what constituted hell. She looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘A heart absent love.’” Despina studied Shahrzad as she spoke.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.”
Source: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)
“Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.”
“Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.”
“Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).”
“Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically”
“Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Despise your weakness, not yourself.”
“Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.”
“Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.”
“Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues.”
“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.”
“Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.”
“Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.”
“Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far more willing to try new ethnic foods... It's like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry.”
Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.”
“Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”
Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.”
“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t murder John C. Calhoun.” In a life rich with murdering people for little-to-no reason, Jackson’s only regret was that he didn’t kill quite enough people. People like Calhoun, who, it should be noted, was Jackson’s vice president. No one is safe from Jackson’s wrath.”
Source: How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.”
“Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize the many opportunities in this market and the significant value of low interest rates. As job creation and wages continue to improve, many more first-time buyers are now making the decision to become homeowners.”
“Despite a lot of cultlike futurist notions about “third wave electronic cottages” in which after breakfast white-collar employees contentedly slip into their basement cockpit module, turn on the video display terminal, and get to work without ever leaving home, the computer shows no sign of reducing the alienation of industrialized service-and-information workers in the foreseeable future.”
“Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."”
“Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.”
“Despite a protective Geyer threatening to “break the neck of the first reporter who attempted to interview the woman,” a determined reporter caught Mrs. Pitezel on her way out of the Rossin House dining room.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.”
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
“Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.”
“Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.”
“Despite all its dangers and tragedies, we will never stop to dedicate ourselves to life because all the beautiful things in life outweighs all the ugly things!”
“Despite all my other anxieties, as I set about the recipe--- grinding sugar, boiling it to a syrup, then clarifying it with egg white to draw off the impurities--- I tasted a sweet edge of hope. My customers often proved resistant to change, and yet this frozen delicacy promised innovation married to the familiar. After all, what could be more English than peaches and cream? I knew instinctively that it would prove more popular than Persian sherbet, and more suited to this weather than apricot tarts.”
Source: The Art of a Lie
“Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.”
“Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.”
“Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to choose I would take a good book over a good relationship any day of the week.”
Source: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs
“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”