D Quotes
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“Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’
‘No.’
‘It is to be at home everywhere.”
Source: The Age of Magic
“Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.”
“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“Do you know what the most useful beauty product you can have in your home is?
Is it a great skin cleanser, a toner, or a conditioner? There is a straightforward treatment that, believe it or not, covers all those areas and is a one-stop beauty treatment in a bottle. So, what is this mystery ingredient? It’s good, old-fashioned apple cider vinegar.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.”
“Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.”
“Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.”
“Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God.”
“Do you know what the women have a gift for? ... Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”
Source: Foster
“Do you know what the worst curse is? It’s helplessness. When someone you love is in pain and you’re too far away to be there for them, to give them your shoulder to cry on—that distance, that powerlessness, is the real curse”
“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”
Source: My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
“Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?" Alyss shook her head. How could she know? "Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out. Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said.”
“Do you know what they're called? They're the Shadows That Live, Zuze. They're assassins."
"Like me," said Zuzanna cheerfully.”
Source: Days of Blood & Starlight
“Do you know what Van Eck’s problem is?”
“No honor?” said Matthias.
“Rotten parenting skills?” said Nina.
“Receding hairline?” offered Jesper.
“No,” said Kaz. “Too much to lose. And he gave us a map to what to steal first.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves.”
Source: The Gift
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
“Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.”
“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?”
Source: The writings of a savage
“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!”
Source: The writings of a savage
“Do you know what words are without actions? Lies. They are lies.”
Source: Of Ashes and Embers: Exploring Self Awareness After Spiritual Trauma
“Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!”
Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen
“Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!”
“Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.”
“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”
“Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.”
“Do you know what you did to me?' he asked bitterly. 'You bloody well
emasculated me. I destroyed my manhood over you. I threw away my pride,
my self-control. I despised myself, and I hated you for the way you made me
feel...'
-Ashley Dent”
Source: The Long Surrender
“Do you know what you get to ride?" He stood and swept his desk clear, spilling papers, pens, pencils, and his coffee cup onto the floor.
Languid in the chair, she licked her lips when he yanked open his belt. "Do I get three guesses?"
"You get one." He shoved down his pants and boxers. "A big one.”
Source: The Singles Table
“Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.”
“Do you know what you have done, wise as you are? I have waited a month, which means I have suffered a month. I hoped-man is such a poor and miserable creature-I hoped, for what? I don't know: something unimaginable, absurd, senseless, a miracle...but what? God alone knows, for it was He who diluted our reason with that madness called hope.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Do you know what you mean to me?" he murmurs, "If something happened to you, because of me..." His voice trails off, his brow creasing, and the pain that flashes across his face is almost palpable. He looks so vulnerable - his fear very much apparent.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“Do you know what you need?” Malcolm was saying now.
To get laid, I thought.
“To get laid,” Malcolm said.
Shocker.”
Source: Banned From the Tomb
“Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)”
Source: The Last Song
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in her perfectly arranged hair.”
“Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order paintings from the artist. They would order the Crucifixion of Jesus. The restrictions were amazing. Jesus had to be in the middle, three apostles on the left, four apostles on the right - and still you had masterpieces. It's really interesting to work within restriction, and see what you can do with restriction.”
“Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.”
“Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.”
Source: The Interior Castle
“Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.”
“Do you know when you go to a very boring dinner and you sit down and you have the chance to talk with somebody and it's so interesting that you learn so much that night that you go back and say, "Oh, finally, I met someone who inspired me"? I love that.”
“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.”
“Do you know where hell is? It's up here, in your head.”
“Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“Do you know where Lakri is right now?” I asked Ingra as we headed inside the wall to our usual spot”
Source: JACQUERIE. Volume II
“Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.”
Source: Men at Arms
“Do you know where the sunflowers' lights go when they die?”
“Do you know where to hide a dead body? It’s on the second page of Google because nobody goes there!”
“Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?”
“Do you know where you were on Thursday evening at about eight o'clock last week, and who you were with, and what you were doing? Are you absolutely certain beyond any shadow of a doubt? Would you bet your life on it? If there is any possibility—no matter how slim or remote—that you could possibly be mistaken about such a thing, you are the kind of person who should never agree to talk to the police under just about any circumstances for as long as you live. And that includes practically everybody.”
Source: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.”