D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.”
“Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?”
“Do you know anyone who would be willing to die to save those five-thousand serial killers?”
“No. Everyone I know is too smart for that!”
“Yet Someone did die to save all of the serial killers, and all of the old women, and all of the soldiers, and all of the babies that the world has ever known. That one is Jesus Christ. He died for you and for me. He died for everyone, because in this world our sin has condemned us to death, and the only way that we can be saved was for someone who was Himself without sin to be willing to die in our place.”
Molly was silent. Her bright smile had faded, and she felt tears well up in her eyes.”
Source: The Warrior
“Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?”
“Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.”
“Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.”
“Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?”
“Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?”
Source: Tales of Power
“Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.”
Source: Last Operas and Plays
“Do you know, by the way, that you were given to me as a present for my Confirmation (there's something like a Jewish Confirmation)? I was born in '83, so I was 13 when you were born. The 13th birthday is a special occasion. Up near the altar in the temple I had to recite a piece learned by heart with great difficulty, then at home I had to make a brief speech (also learned by heart). I also received many presents. But I imagine that I was not entirely satisfied, one particular present I missed, I demanded it from heaven; it hesitated until 10 August.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“Do you know, by the way, why it's called the net?"
Peter shrugs.
"Because we're caught in it," says Kiki.”
Source: QualityLand
“Do you know,' Cassian drawled to her, 'that the last time I got into a brawl in this house, I was kicked out for a month?'
Nesta's burning gaze slid to him, still outraged- but hinted with incredulity.
He just went on, 'It was Amren's fault, of course, but no one believed me. And no one dared banish her.'
She blinked slowly.
But the burning, molten gaze became mortal. Or as mortal as one of us could be.
Until Lucien breathed, 'What are you?'
Cassian didn't seem to dare take his focus off Nesta. But my sister slowly looked at Lucien.
'I made it give something back,' she said with terrifying quiet. The Cauldron. The hairs along my arms rose. Nesta's gaze flicked to the carpet, then to a spot on the wall. 'I wish to go to my room.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Do you know, do you know that mankind can still continue to live without the Englishman, can continue without Germany, can continue all too well without the Russian, can continue without science, can continue without bread - it is only without beauty that we cannot continue, for there will be nothing at all to do in the world! That's where the whole secret lies, that's where the whole of history lies! Science itself would not last a minute without beauty - do you know about that, you who are laughing now? - it would turn into loutishness, you wouldn't even be able to invent the nail!”
Source: Demons
“Do you know Donna arrested someone on Christmas Day?' Joyce tells Mervyn. 'I didn't know you could do that.
'What was it?' asks Ron. 'Reindeer rustling?'
'Soliciting a sexual act,' says Donna.
'At Christmas,' says Joyce, shaking her head. 'You'd think people would be too full.”
Source: The Last Devil to Die
“Do you know, every time I thought I'd cut you.”
Source: Suffering Fools
“Do you know God? Do you know there is a power greater than ourselves which manifests itself within us as well as everywhere else in the universe? This I call God. Do you know what it is to know God, to have God's constant guidance, a constant awareness of God's presence? To know God is to reflect love toward all people and all creations. To know God is to feel peace within - a calmness, a serenity, an unshakeableness which enables you to face any situation. To know God is to be so filled with joy that it bubbles over and goes forth to bless the world.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
“Do you know,” he asked, “that the most common word in our Yom Kippur prayers doesn't relate to forgiveness, or expiation, but remembrance?”
Source: The Forgotten
“Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.”
“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”
Source: Father Goriot
“Do you know how a pearl comes to be?"
"Oysters make them, from a bit of sand."
"Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.”
Source: Lady of Light and Shadows
“Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.”
Source: Burned
“Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.”
Source: Desperation
“Do you know how diamonds are made?"
She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent.
He didn't wait for her to answer. "They're made of a single element - carbon. But, over millions of years, the carbon had to undergo incredible pressure-something like a minimum of four hundred pounds per square inch-and cook to at least seven hundred degrees. The amazing thing is that if there's not enough pressure or heat, instead of a diamond, plain old graphite is made. Imagine that-instead of the world's most indestructible and beautiful thing, you get just graphite. Something to make pencils with. Sure, pencils are nice and useful. But they aren't diamonds.”
Source: Learning to Breathe
“Do you know how does it feel failing every day?
No,
You get used to it.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?”
“Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)”
“Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth.”
“Do you know how gemologists tell a fake emerald from a real one? The fakes are perfect. Real emeralds have flaws. None of us is perfect.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Do you know how good God is?”
“Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.”
Source: The Book of Everything
“Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?”
Source: The Soldiers of Halla
“Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.”
“Do you know how hard it is to kill something? Nothing wants to die. Things cling to their lives against all hope, even when it's hopeless. It's like the end is always there, you can't escape it. But things try so, so hard not to cross that finish line. So when they finally do, everything's been stripped away, their bodies and happiness and hope. Things just don't know when to die, I wish they did. I wish my friends had known that, sort of anyway. But I'm glad they tried, that's part of being human right? Part of being any living thing. You hold onto life until it gets ripped away from you, even if it gets ripped away in pieces, you just hold on.”
Source: The Troop
“Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.”
Source: Dhalgren
“Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“Do you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness!”
“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“Do you know how hard it is? Writing good poetry? Condensing the wealth of human emotion into the sparsest of language? There's an alchemy that eludes me, a distillation. Boiling the content down, down, down, you're left with liquid gold.”
Source: My Oxford Year
“Do you know how hard it’s been to not fuck you this whole journey?" he asked inside my head.
“Why can’t I make love to you? Your husband sent you off to breed with a vampire.” Samuel’s fangs retracted. “Last time I checked, I was a vampire.”
Source: Escape
“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?”
“Do you know how I like to think of myself? As a human being. Because under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family.”
Source: Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
“Do you know how I love you? My spirit leisurely roams around yours until it discovers a crevice. It then trickles inward through that crevice, pouring my affection into its depths. Yet, as the same crevice resides within my own soul, I inadvertently inflict pain upon you, for our crevices are sharp and profound.”
Source: Darkness In The Light #2
“Do you know how it hurts to touch you
knowing that in the morning I’ll still wake up alone?”
“Do you know how it is to be locked in your mind, words and writing become your best friend.”
“Do you know how it is when one wakes
at night suddenly and asks,
listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
insatiable?”
“Do you know how little it costs these days to hire Russian hackers to rig an election? How a small investment can turn whole populations against immigrants, against religious and ethnic minorities, against each other? You want to know how little it costs to hire an assassin to remove any opposition you might face, because I can tell you and it is nowhere near seven hundred million dollars. Hate is cheap, and seven hundred million dollars will buy an awful lot of it.”
Source: The Enigma Affair
“Do you know how long I’ve waited for you to look at me this way?”
She assumed he was teasing her. “What are you talking about? You didn’t even like me for most of the time we’ve known each other.”
He bent his head before turning to go, his voice low and confident in her ear. “Or maybe I’m just that good of an undercover agent.”
Source: The Thing About Love