D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of an eye, she will shatter that ridiculous cage you attempt to build around her beautiful bohemian spirit.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.”
“Don't tell a person about ghosts, and he will never see one.
Tell him about it and he will always be haunted by one.”
Source: The Enigmatic Expanse - Existence
“Don’t tell anyone else your story. Sell them a book and make them read it if they wanna know, be wise your price just went up.”
“Don't tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big your God is.”
Source: Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing
“Don’t tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island.”
Source: Drown
“Don't tell me a true story, tell me a story of truth.”
“Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.'
"Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"
"Sun readers don't care *who* runs the country - as long as she's got big tits.”
Source: Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Don't tell me about your religion, show me how it has improved your living.”
“Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)”
Source: After the Quake
“Don’t tell me,” Burnham cut in. “It’s fascinating.” Spock said nothing in response, but he could not help but appear mildly put out.”
Source: Desperate Hours
“Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he'll grow up to be a demon just because his dad _became_ one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Don't tell me how big my problem is, tell the problem how Big I am”
“Don't tell me how to feel.”
Source: 10 Commandments on Women...and Counting
“Don’t tell me how to live.
Teach me how to be.
In that stillness,
I’ll discover everything
I’ll ever need to know
about living.”
“Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot physically look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Don't tell me it is impossible, until after I have already done it.”
Source: Toad Catchers' Creek
“Don't tell me it took you a whole two days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
Source: Cress
“Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies."
"Jace," Clary said, "this is important."
"Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -"
"JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?”
Source: City of Bones
“Don’t tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we’re too poor to associate with.”
Source: The Sellout
“Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be controlled in the bedroom and find great satisfaction and freedom with it. That is the most anti-feminist statement I have ever heard. Feminism is all about letting women be who THEY want to be. Not how YOU want them to be...I am both a feminist AND a submissive in my sexual fantasies and reality. You are the one who is anti-feminist who tells me I can’t be.”
“Don't tell me; show me.”
“Don't tell me that I can't do it. Go and tell God that story. After all, He is the one who gave me the air to breath and be able to do it well! Go!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
“Don't tell me the sun is an exit
the sky is a clamp.”
Source: Brute: Poems
“Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won’t hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don’t, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable”
Source: Mind Platter
“Don't tell me what I won't do Serena, because when it comes to you, I seem to be breaking all of my own rules”
“Don't tell me what they said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.”
“Don’t tell me what you’re going to do. Tell me what you’ve done.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“Don't tell me what you think: just tell me what's in your portfolio.”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Don't tell me where I live if I have not told you where I live. That's not the flex. It's creepy.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Don’t tell me where to go or how to get there,
just tell me that I won’t…and I will.”
Source: Feast
“Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are." -James W. Frick”
Source: Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
“Don’t tell me you aren’t even a little glad to see me, Mother,” Sebastian said, and
though his words were pleading, his voice was flat. “Aren’t I everything you could want in
a son?” He spread his arms wide. “Strong, handsome, looks just like dear old Dad.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Don't tell me you believe in ghosts, Finn.'
'Ghosts, not exactly. Traces, yeah. Sort of.'
'Traces?'
'Here's my theory. Everything is energy. We all leave something behind. Now, there's folk who'll swear on their granny's last breath that they've seen a ghost. And I reckon some of them have. Or rather, they've seen traces of a past energy.'
...
Finn was talking with his hands now, trying to make some sense. 'We think that time moves forward, in a linear fashion. Yeah? But sometimes you get deja vu, or there's some mad coincidence that you can't explain. I think time doesn't move in a linear fashion, but in a spiral, and sometimes there's echoes from the past. And a ghost is just an echo of someone.”
Source: The Lighthouse Witches
“Don’t tell me you didn’t see those girls checking you out.”
“Checking…out? What were they checking?” I frown.
“Your butt, most likely.” She pulls her hand from mine and pats my bottom. “It’s a really nice one.”
I can feel my face grow hot. “Well, I am yours. They can look all they want, but I belong to you.”
Source: Barbarian's Tease
“Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?”
“OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.”
Source: I See The Devil
“Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.
“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.”
Source: This Savage Song
“Don’t tell me you’re guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.”
(Meghan to Machina)”
Source: The Iron Queen
“Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.”
Source: Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
“Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Don’t tell Mom, but I think my little emergency last night was a sign. And I was thinking of you when it happened. So, I’m worried that this is a prediction about you. Do you have something big planned? Something dangerous that you’re going to do?”
Mike looked away. He didn’t want to lie to her but he also couldn’t tell her his plan.
“Well, whatever it is, don’t do it, okay? You’re going to get the feeling soon too. I know it,” she yawned, “It feels like it’s a long way off, but I’ve never had this strong a reaction before. And now that I’m stuck in bed, I can’t help you…or stop you. So please, whatever you’re doing, let it go, okay? Especially if it’s about the shop. Just let me handle it.”
“I’ll be careful,” he said.
“Huh?” she yawned again.
He didn’t answer. Her eyelids grew heavy until they closed all the way. Mike lifted the sheet that was turned down from the bed and draped it over her. Then, he left the room, closing the door behind him.
- Saving Hascal's Horrors”
“Don't tell people what you're doing, tell them what you did!”
“Don’t tell people what you’re going to do, just do it. Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.”
“Don’t tell people what you’re gonna do, just do it.”
“Don't tell people your dreams, show them.”
“Don’t tell Tex you’re gonna buy a franchise, he’ll go ballistic.”
What he said made me stop and I stared up at him stupidly in the dark.
“What’s wrong with franchises?” I asked.
“They’re the death of America,” Uncle Tex boomed from the next room and both Hank and I froze. “Now, will you two keep it the fuck down. The walls are paper thin and you’re disturbin’ the cats!”
Source: Rock Chick Redemption
“Don't tell the camel about the desert! Save your breath! Be born in the desert! Live in the desert! Only then can you speak to the camel about the desert!”