D Quotes
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“Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.”
“Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?”
"It was only half an argument.”
“Fine. Then, you kiss and I’ll make up.”
I laughed until he effectively shut me up with his lips.”
“Does that diminish my own experience, because someone has it worse? There's always someone with a shittier life than yours. That doesn't turn the shit in your life into roses.”
Source: The Play
“Does that mean that all one has to do is wait for the right moment? It was not just a question of that, as Hesse explained: the vita active and the vita contemplativa stand in a very sensitive relation to one another, which must constantly be rebalanced. He would come to summarize this in 1956: 'The flaw in our questioning and complaining is presumably this: namely, that we desire to have something given to us from outside that we can only attain within ourselves, through our own dedication. We demand that life must have a meaning - yet it has precisely as much meaning as we are able to impart to it.' This led him on to formulate the idea of a elite, a secret society, the invisible realm of the league of those taking part in The Journey to the East and finally to The Glass Bead Game - the 'monastery for free spirits' that Nietzsche had in mind and that Hesse affirmed and rejected in equal measure: 'In short, wanting to improve humanity is always a hopeless task. That is why I have always built my faith on the individual, for the individual can be educated and is capable of improvement, and according to my faith it has always been and still remains the small elite of well-intentioned, dedicated, and courageous people who are the guardians of all that is good and beautiful in the world.”
Source: Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
“Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.”
“Does that mean that if a man opens a woman's fiction book, all the words will slide off the page in a swoon, or flutter a fan and scamper away in horror? Or perhaps the book will explode to ensure no manly eye can read what he's not supposed to?”
Source: The Calico Cat
“Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?”
Source: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance
“Does that mean that the grass doesn't constitute a life? That the grassland isn't a life? Out here, the grass and the grassland are the life, the big life. All else is the little life that depends on the big life for survival. Even wolves and humans are little life. Creatures that eat grass are worse than creatures that eat meat. To you, the gazelle is to be pitied. So the grass isn't to be pitied, is that it? The gazelles have four fast-moving legs, and most of the time wolves spit up blood from exhaustion trying to catch them. When the gazelles are thirsty, they run to the river to drink, and when they're cold, they run to a warm spot on the mountain to soak up some sun. But the grass? Grass is the big life, yet it is most fragile, the most miserable life. Its roots are shallow, the soil is thin, and though it lives on the ground, it cannot run away. Anyone can step on it, eat it, chew it, crush it. A urinating horse can burn a large spot in it. And if the grass grows in sand or in the cracks between rocks, it is even shorter, because it cannot grow flowers, which means it cannot spread its seeds. For us Mongols, there's nothing more deserving of pity than the grass. If you want to talk about killing, the the gazelles kill more grass than any mowing machine could. When they graze the land, isn't that killing? Isn't that taking the big life of the grassland? When you kill off the big life of the grassland, all the little lives are doomed. The damage done by the gazelles far outstrips any done by the wolves. The yellow gazelles are the deadliest, for they can end the lives of the people here.”
Source: Wolf Totem
“Does that mean that we are momentary and inconsequential beings in an endless, timeless, and indifferent cosmos?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?”
“Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Does that mean you're going to leave her alone now?'
Cardan leaned in close, close enough that I could feel his breath on my cheek. 'It's much too late for that.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.”
Source: Wormwood
“Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.”
“Does that new man in your life call his ex "a slut", "a whore", "a bitch", "psycho" , "crazy", "a nutter" etc etc. Chances are, whatever he's calling his ex right now, he'll be calling you when things don't go his way. Be warned.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.”
Source: End of Reason
“Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?”
“Does the act of incarceration work as deterrent against crime?"
"No act can be a deterrent as long as the need or desperation to offend is greater.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“Does the answer to life lie in my guts, my mind or in between my legs?”
“Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?”
“Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.”
“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.”
“Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.”
“Does the business have a consistent operating history?”
“Does the business have favourable long term prospects?”
“Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.”
“Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?”
Source: Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews
“Does the cosmic space,
we dissolve into, taste of us then?”
Source: Duino Elegies
“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”
“Does the "crime" being committed match the punishment being exacted? If you think it is, that says a lot about who is really obtuse but also obdurate as well. Compassion. Try it some time and you may become a better person to others.”
“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.”
“Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.”
“Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
Source: Wicked
“Does the devil know he is a devil?”
“Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.”
“Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?”
“Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?”
“Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.”
“Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.”
“Does the existence of God matter? Believing is the magic that's changing your inner mind and releasing the present pain to something better. Believing is like
medicine for your mind; in a magical way it releases and calms the hell where your body and mind are now, especially when you don't have any other choice.”
Source: Blue House: Ten Years on The Way Home
“Does the first slanting ray of light; not lie?
Catapulted from the arching mountains, into a small stinking dungeon, peeking through the curtains; humming lies. Lies land on the ears like an autumn leaf- falling every so gently to no breeze of the dawn.”
“Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.”
“Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?”
“Does the gospel only offer a guarded, small message for women? Or does the gospel overturn the culture's small, diminishing, and often degrading message for women with a clarion call to live within the boundless parameters Jesus defines -- to "love the Lord your God will all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength" (Mark 12:30)?
Who tells us who we are? Who alone has the right to define our worth? Are we at the mercy of gender, culture, circumstances, and fear? Or is there a Voice that trumps all others to give us an indestructible identity and rich, durable kingdom purposes for our lives?”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”
“Does the horizon ever wonder if the stars are lonely in their walk?
Does the Sun ever wonder if the Sunset's just another smile of a day gone by, only to let the moon find her solace in a tapestry of Solitude all over again?”
“Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.”