D Quotes
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“Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.”
“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
“Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“Do you sleep better in a closed bedroom or a well-ventilated bedroom?”
“Do you sleep naked?”
Source: Hush, Hush
“Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?"
"Only to be antisocial," replied Cabal, making no move.”
Source: Johannes Cabal the Detective
“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”
“Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensity going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.”
Source: I Saw the Lord: A Wake-up Call for Your Heart
“Do you sometimes get drunk and take a bath in a pile of cash? If so, you may be suffering from hyperinflation.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?”
Source: Shoplifting from American Apparel
“Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.”
“Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.”
“Do . . . you . . . speak . . . English?" she asks.
NO, BUT I SPEAK CUNT.”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.
His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.
should I?
Maybe not...”
Source: Wild Card
“Do you spend a couple of hours every day in your studio?”
“Do you spend more time stressing about work or doing it?”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Do you still believe in God, Rabbi?", she said at last. His face looked drained and pale. He shook his head from side to side. "I believe in sin," he said and finished his wine. I believe in evil.”
Source: Snow in August
“Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?”
“Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen?" I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?”
Source: The Dead-Tossed Waves
“Do you still distrust me?”
“No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.”
Brown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck.
“I think it rather suits me,” she laughed and left.
Brown didn’t understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it
was the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately,
he was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money.
Later that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and
he was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same
friend’s address as she had been the last time.”
Source: The Arbitrator
“Do you still do the clubs?” Jake shakes his head. “You do the clubs because you can’t find what you need at home. I’ve got everything I need. I’ve got the answer to needs I didn’t even know I had.”
“Do you still feel it
in some happy elsewhere,
a quieter version of us
sits cross-legged on the kitchen floor,
arguing over groceries,
your hand reaching for mine
between apples and oat-milk.
Sometimes, I imagine running into you
as a stranger.
Your eyes flicker with almost-recognition,
like they remember the weight
of my name in the dark.
We smile, polite.
You walk away.
I fall in.
I don’t know if the abyss
was always meant to feel like home.
But I keep its door half open
just in case
you ever want to return
as someone new.
Or worse
as someone real.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“Do you still Kill Gerbils?”
“Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?”
Source: Enchanted
“Do you still love Jude?
I think a part of me always will.
It always feels that way at first, she said. But it will stop. I promise.
And I didn't know then if that was better, if I even wanted it to. At the time, that seemed to be like the saddest thing.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“Do you still love me?”, he asked.
And after a long pause, trying to stop myself from bursting into tears, I answered, “I never stopped loving you. I chose to stop giving it.”
Source: a Constellation of Almosts
“Do you still love me, Janie?' Janie stares at him, incredulous. 'Yes, of course! I don't say it lightly.' 'Say it lightly in my ear,' he demands. She smiles, rests her soft cheek on his scratchy one, and whispers it. 'I love you, Cabe.”
Source: Fade
“Do you still prefer those baby blue sweaters, Red umbrellas and yellow hair? Do you still wear the same old summer fragrance that haunts me? Or have you changed it for the man you have coffee with?”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“Do you still think I'm the good guy?”
“Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they’re supposed to because they believe it’s the right thing to do. No one likes killing people.”
Strigan made a sardonic noise "No one?"
"Not many," I amended. "Not enough to fill the Radch's warships".”
Source: Ancillary Justice
“Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?”
“Do you still throw spears at each other?”
“Do you still want me to go to hell? I must admit, I don't know the way.”
Source: The Robber Knight's Love
“Do you still want Ren?" I listened to my own heartbeat for a minute before answering. "Yes." "That's one hot mess, Cal." Ansel smiled at me.”
Source: Bloodrose
“Do you stop to show appreciation for the companions who accompany you on life’s journey?”
“Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.”
“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'”
Source: The Awakening: And Selected Short Stories - Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, Respectable Woman, Kiss, Pair of Silk Stockings, Locket, Reflection (Beloved Books Edition)
“Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?”
“Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?”
“Do you suppose she's a wildflower?”
“Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.”
“Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.”
“Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“Do you suppose, that part of the constant delight of Heaven, will be the ability to be truly thankful for every thing, no matter how miniscule? Even in this life there are an enormous number of very pleasant things that happen to us throughout the day, that we accept as being nothing out of the common way, and thus do not regard: not realizing that the very fact of their being so 'common' is in itself a blessing of the very highest magnitude!”
Source: Letters to Julia
“Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.”
“Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?”
Source: Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera
“Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature