D Quotes
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“Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Do you think the penis ever gets tired?"
Whose?
Anybody's. I mean anybody with one. Does the penis ever just think: for God's sake pal, give it a rest? Or is it all: Woo-who!! Here we go again!”
Source: Fantasy in Death
“Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.”
“Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.”
“Do you think the street lamp illuminates you? No, it only illuminates itself! Likewise, if you illuminate yourself, those who pass by you will think that you illuminate them!”
“Do you think the symbol of the rhinoceros is there to create a comic effect?” Gabrielle asked.
“Yes,” said Michelle, smiling the proud smile of someone who has found the truth.
“You’re right,” said Gabrielle. Pleased with their own boldness, the two girls looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths quivered with pride. Then, all of a sudden, they emitted short, shrill, spasmodic sounds very difficult to describe in words.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked.
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
“Do you think there are smartphones in the afterlife? Because if not, lots of people are going to be very miserable in heaven.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.”
“Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed.
‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’…
If someone came in here and gave you positive proof, would you do anything different?
She shook her head. ‘I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“Do you think there outside you are free
Do you think chaining me you can flee
The rest of the world is outside in a cage
I am not gonna give up my case just like this”
“Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?”
Source: The Twelfth Child
“Do you think there will be Mondays in heaven?' (...) 'Heaven will be one long Monday'.”
Source: Marriage a la Mode
“Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?”
“Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?”
Source: Fall On Your Knees
“Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.”
“Do you think they have ice cream here?” Lanie asked.
Kyle cocked his eyebrow, obviously surprised by her question. “I have no idea. Why do you ask?”
“Because I like ice cream when I’m stressed,” she replied, thinking she wasn’t just stressed. She was burning up and needed something cold.
“I don’t mean to cause you anxiety. Don’t worry. I’ll get you ice cream whether they have it here or not, if that’s what you want.”
“Wow, Kyle, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me,” she replied with a smile.”
Source: The Do-Over
“Do you think they knew they would survive?”
“No,” he said. “That’s what made it worship.”
Source: FIFTEEN MORNINGS with the PROPHET: First Edition
“Do you think they’ll ever be a place for us? I mean, do you think there’s a place for someone who lives under the radar, someone who has to pretend, someone who is a spy?”
“Yes.” Daly said it with such confidence that I sat up in my bed, my cast dangling over the edge.
“How do you know?” I asked.
“There has to be. I don’t usually philosophize, but I do know one thing.”
“What’s that?”
“That even when we’re pretending, even when we’re hiding under wigs or accents or clothes that aren’t our style, we can’t hide our nature. Just like I knew from the moment I met you that you would choose this life. And just like I knew, when you told me about this mission, that you would agree to help the CIA find this girl. You would sacrifice yourself and your time with your brother to save someone. It’s just who you are.”
“I’ve already messed things up, Daly. What if I’m not good enough? What if I can’t do it?”
“That’s the thing, though. You’ll find a way.”
I lay back again and buried the side of my face into my pillow. “I’m just not sure how.”
“If you continue to think as you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got,” Daly said. I considered that. I wasn’t ready to give up. At least not yet. “That one is Itosu wisdom, in case you wondered.”
I yawned into the phone. “It’s good advice.”
“I’ll let you go. You should be resting. Don’t you have school in the morning?” He said the last part in a teasing tone.
“Yeah, if I make it through another day at school. Maybe they’ll get rid of me—kick me out or something. You’d think I would have inherited some of my mom’s artistic genius.”
“Can I give you one last bit of advice, Alex?”
“Sure.”
“Throw it all out the window.”
“What?” I stared at my open window. A slight breeze blew the gauzelike drapes in and out as if they were a living creature.
“Everything you’ve learned about art, the lines, the colors, the pictures in your head from other artists—just throw it all out. And throw out everything you’ve learned from books and simulations about being a good spy. Don’t try to be like someone else. Don’t force yourself to follow a set of rules that weren’t meant for you. Those work for 99.99% of the people.”
“You’re telling me I’m the .01%?” I asked skeptically.
“No, I’m telling you you’re not even on the scale.” Daly’s soft breathing traveled through the phone line. “With a mind like yours, you can’t be put in a box. Or even expected to stand outside it. You were never meant to hold still, Alex. You have to stack all the boxes up and climb and keep climbing until you find you. I’m just saying that Alexandra Stewart will find her own way.”
The cool night air brushed the skin of my arm and I wished it was Daly’s hand instead. “You sure have a lot of wisdom tonight,” I told him. I expected him to laugh. Instead, the line went silent for a moment. “Because I’m not there. Because I wish I was.” His words were simple, but his message reached inside my heart and left a warmth—a warmth I needed.
“Thank you, James.”
“Take care, Alex.”
I wanted to say more, to keep him at my ear just a little longer. Yet the words itching to break free couldn’t be said from over two thousand miles away. They needed to happen in person. I wasn’t going home until I found Amoriel. Which meant I had to complete this mission. Not just for Amoriel anymore. I had to do it for me. (page 143)”
Source: Memory of Monet
“Do you think they’ll stop this… zombie-apocalypse-in-the-making if they realize I’m back on Team Not-Insane?”
No one really looked hopeful, but Aiden smiled at me, and I knew he did it to make me feel better, because it was what I wanted to hear. It took everything in me not to cross the room and jump him.”
Source: Apollyon
“Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”
Source: Rebel Angels
“Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?”
Source: Agamemnon Must Die
“Do you think to yourself, 'Wow, I saw this chicken and she was gorgeous?'”
“Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.”
“Do you think we are fated to be as we always have been? You, blighted by fear, and me, devoutly, miserably dutiful. We were both fading away." He crossed the space between us. "You have shone a light on me. You made me feel fury and terror and joy and longing. How do I curl myself back into the darkness after being so alive?”
Source: In the Veins of the Drowning
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
Source: Ever My Merlin
“Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.”
“Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”
“Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.”
“Do you think we hate ourselves because we don’t understand ourselves?”
“Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?”
Source: In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
“Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?”
“Do you think we will ever see the government stop funding futile wars and start to correctly fund its social security system?”
“Do you think we would eat supper and not include the children. No child goes hungry when I’m around.”
Source: Just Out Of Reach
“Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?”
“Do you think Western Civilization has come to an end?
"We are clearly going through a cultural crisis at the moment. It's a phase where we are trying to distinguish values of life. People are looking for a solution and perhaps they will find it. But the radicality of the search will change their view of life."
So there is a cultural crises?
"There is a general crisis, but it's not the end of the world.
But the crisis it total?
"And so what? The crisis means that now the world is at the bottom of a sinus curve. In the nature of things, it will now rise and fall again later.”
Source: Kieslowski on Kieslowski
“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked, keeping her voice low. “The last time we were in this building, we accused the Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think we’ll be waiting long.”
Source: The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 3)
“Do you think what he's doing is a good idea?'
The vampire rubbed the jaw of his helm. 'I think we should get going.'
'I'll take that as a no.'
Chaos sighed, one part impatient, one part beleaguered. 'I don't ever think time travel is a good idea. I've lived long enough to know that the past doesn't like to be changed. Jacks believes his plan will work because he only wants to alter one thing. But Jacks' reason gets clouded when he wants something badly enough. I believe the only way that time travel works is if the past hadn't had time to settle. The further back you go, the more Time fights against changes. And given the vindictive nature of Time, even if Jacks succeeds in changing the past, Time will no doubt make sure he loses something else in order to pay for it. So you are correct, I think he's making a mistake.'
'Then help me change his mind!'
Chaos shook his head ruefully. 'You're not good for him, either, Princess. This is a better mistake for Jacks to make than you. If he were to stay for you, he would kill you, and your death would kill him. Trust me, Evangeline. If you care about Jacks, the best thing you can do for him is let him go.'
'That doesn't feel like the best thing,' she said. But a part of her couldn't deny that maybe Chaos was right.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?”
“Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?”
Source: The Portable Veblen
“Do you think you are a good person? Think again, I say! Think Gandhiji! He nursed lepers, opened his home to leprosy patients! See, to be a really good person, you have to be involved in such extraordinary work! Sit down, think, are you a good person?”
“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
“Do you think you can cause something to happen just from wanting it so much?' she asked. 'I don't get what you mean. Does this have to do with your dad?' asked Frannie. 'Not really. I'm talking about loneliness.' Frannie turned around and considered her answer. For awhile she seemed to be in a wilderness of her own. 'Do you mean that you imagined that Issy was your friend?' 'Yes, so completely that it was real.' 'Oh, that can happen. I believe that totally. Loneliness is powerful.”
Source: The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
“Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.”
Source: Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty
“Do you think you can handle it?’
‘Yeah, like fuck we can. It’ll be great. What about looting? I mean, you said whatever we like. The lads have never been looting.’
‘Ooh, a little treat for them,’ Janine shouted, and under her breath, ‘for fuck's sake.’
Charlie Robinson, The Siege of Mr Khan's Curry Shop.”
Source: The Siege of Mr Khan's Curry Shop