D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Doesn't the female always take what she wants and at the same time try to hang on to what she already has?”
Source: The Narrows
“Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush?”
Source: Chain Reaction
“Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any other good, and for the sake of which man is prepared if necessary to go against all the laws, against, that is, reason, honour, peace and quiet, prosperity - in short against all those fine and advantageous things - only to attain that primary, best good which is dearer to him than all else?”
“Doesn’t this feel wrong to you?” I cut in. “Lying to everyone? Acting like we’re this happy couple?”
Source: My Boyfriend's Best Friend
“Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.”
Source: Going Postal
“Doesn’t work like that,” Pigpen says real slowly, and my blood pressure plummets. It’s a boys’ club. Violet had said that. A boys’ club that’s going to get me killed—”
“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
“Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.”
“Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?”
“Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?”
“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”
“Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?”
Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“Doesn't becoming imply time?”
“Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.”
“Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.”
“Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?”
“Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?”
“Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?”
“Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.”
“Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.”
“Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.”
“Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
“Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?”
“Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.”
“Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.”
Source: Tales of Wonder
“Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.”
“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.”
“Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”
“Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.”
“Doesn't matter if you're fourteen or if you're eight, there's an incredible vernacular that I do believe has become more and more plausible to talk this way in the public sphere, I think because we live in such a coarse and pornographic era. Years of this has produced a certain amount of misogyny that is just a given of life in America at this point.”
“Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.”
Source: Ketchup Clouds
“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”
“Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.”
Source: Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons
“Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.”
“Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.”
“Doesn't matter who it is I'll friggin break 'em -Grimmjow jaggerjaques”
“Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'”
“Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!”
“Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?”
Source: Monday or Tuesday
“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
Source: White Noise
“Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?”
“Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.”
“Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.”
“Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:
“Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.”
“Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.”
Source: The Lucky One
“Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?”