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 why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.”
Source: A Small Place
“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.”
“Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
“Do you know why socialism never worked? Because people who vote for socialism never work!”
“Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks.”
“Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.”
“Do you know why the best politicians are stand up comedians?
Because people can't disagree with you when they're laughing.”
“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that.”
“Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.”
“Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.”
“Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.”
“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”
“Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It’s your weight and my I.Q.”
“Do you know why there are so many different types of matter and living things?
That's because the creator doesn't want to live forever in boredom.
Tahukah Anda mengapa ada begitu banyak ragam jenis materi dan makhluk hidup?
Itu karena sang pencipta tidak ingin selamanya hidup dalam kebosanan.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Do you know why there’s so much hatred in my heart for you? It’s not because you left me, it’s because you humiliated me and left me. You saved your world by ruining mine, and that’s why with every breath I take, I wish you feel that same humiliation forever.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.”
“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street”
Source: The Long Walk
“Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head.
"Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Do you know why they're called mok-gloves? Because they go up to your wrists(pal-mok).”
“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
“Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ...”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”
“Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
“Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful.
“Because you’re an arrogant little shit.”
Source: The Black Prism
“Do you know why you’re here?' the doctor said.
Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward, headstrong, fat, ugly, mean, tactless, and cruel. Also a liar. That category includes subheads: (a) False blindness, imaginary pains causing real doubling-up, untrue lapses of hearing, lying leg injuries, fake dizziness, and unproved and malicious malingering s; (b) Being a bad sport. Did I leave out unfriendliness?…Also unfriendliness.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.”
“Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?”
“Do you know you do that?"
"Do what?"
His fingers brush the right corner of my mouth "Get a divot here, when you lie.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Do you know your parents? No. You're just familiar with them. We see things again and again, become familiar with them, give them some name and think that we know them. We don't know even a single thing or person.”
“Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.”
“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
Source: Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent
“Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”
“Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.”
Source: Elite Ops Complete Series
“Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.”
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook
“Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.”
Source: The Nonesuch
“Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.”
“Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.”
Source: Deathless
“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”
“Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?”
“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle”
Source: The Realms of the Gods
“Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.”
“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
Source: Dream of Scipio
“Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?”
“Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”
Source: The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)
“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”
“Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!”