D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life”
Source: Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?
“Don't worry, work.”
“Don't worry, worship.”
“Don't worry, you are just as sane as I am.”
“Don’t worry; you can have your freedom to do what you like. I won’t say anything to my father. My feelings will have to be sacrificed for the greater cause, I suppose.”
Source: The Polymorph
“Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. That's God's truth. Who do you think you are that you should worry, for crying out loud? It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is in fact a form of hubris.”
“Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.”
“Don't worry—
you see,
to some you are magic.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Don't worship the dead at the expense of the living.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good.”
“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Don't write. Don't come. I don't need it. It's not why I've written. Do you think my love will starve without your crumbs? Do you think I am not capable of humility? THIS is humility - I will tell you that I love you and know that you cannot return it. I will debase myself. It's the most that I can give and cannot be enough.”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“Don’t write if you can talk, don’t talk if you can nod your head, don’t nod your head if you don’t have to.”
Source: The Family Corleone
“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.”
“Don't write to recount the pain. Write to reclaim the joy.”
Source: We Arrive Uninvited
“Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn’t be changed.
Write with what gives you the most sensual satisfaction.
Write in a hard-covered notebook with green lined pages. Green is easy on the eyes. Blank white pages seems to challenge you to create the world before you start writing. It may be true that you, the modern poet, must make the world as you go, but why be reminded of it before you even have one word on the page?
Don’t erase. Cross out rapidly and violently, never with slow consideration if you can help it.
Start, as some smarty once said, in the middle of things.
Play with syntax.
Never want to say anything so strongly that you have to give up the option of finding something better – if you have to say it, you will.
Read your poem aloud many times. If you don’t enjoy it every time, something may be wrong.
If you ask a question, don’t answer it, or answer a question not asked, or defer. (If you can answer the question, to ask it is to waste time).
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words.
Minimum: One.
Don’t be afraid to take emotional possession of words. If you don’t love a few words enough to own them, you will have to be very clever to write a good poem.”
Source: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
“Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.”
Source: Halloween Nightmares
“Don't write your future with past intentions.”
“Don't yield to fear or anyone. No one can shake your will as long as your spirit shine brilliantly.”
“Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.”
Source: Waterfall
“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in which a hard-working, serious young woman like myself cannot obtain, without enormous difficulty, expense, or infliction of pain on others, a quiet, clean, pleasant room in which she can work, dream her dreams, write out her thoughts, and keep her few treasures in peace.”
Source: The Camomile
“Don't you already know how I feel? I wanted to scream. Don't you remember the safe room?”
Source: The One
“Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.”
Source: Fingersmith
“Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.”
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
“Don't you believe in nonviolence?' I asked.
"'Yes,' said Miss Minnie, 'when the other parties are nonviolent, too. But when I have just come out of a funeral parlor from looking at a little small black boy shot three times by a full-grown cop, I think it is about time I raised my pocketbook and strike at least one blow for freedom.”
Source: The Return of Simple
“Don’t you believe that Jacob can be healed?” some persisted, pressuring
Elizabeth to believe—just believe—and Jacob would be healed. The
underlying message was that Elizabeth’s faith was not strong enough to save her son. I remembered then the same kind of statements David and I had heard when he was undergoing cancer treatment, when several well-intentioned people informed David that all he had to do to rid his body of cancer was to believe he was healed. I’d resented the implications then, and I resented them for my daughter now. People die. Good
people like David die too young, and innocent little children die, and the
strongest faith in the world cannot keep anyone on this earth forever. If
only the same Christians professing their faith in healing could clearly
see the flip side of that faith, that earth was not where we ultimately belonged.
If Jacob died, he would be going Home.”
Source: Refined by Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
Source: Life of Pi
“don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms.
here’s an indisputable fact: you matter.”
Source: Shine your Icy Crown
“Don't you dare call me Miss Spencer, it kills me when you act like we aren't friends.”
Source: Passenger
“Don't you dare come back after you left so easily. You don't deserve my forgiveness, and you surely don't deserve my trust.”
Source: Royals
“Don't you dare counsel me. A cause isn't love, Penelope. Love breaks you wide open.”
“Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.”
Source: The Black Sheep
“DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.”
Source: Huntress
“Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.”
“Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.”
Source: The Great Brain Cleanse
“don’t you dare, for one minute,
believe that my kindness makes me
anything but insurmountable.
I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt,
and stagger back, wounded and alive,
just to hear you call me weak for trying.”
“Don’t you dare get discouraged. Don’t you dare believe that failure is permanent or insurmountable.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Don't you dare give up. You are a divine being. A unique expression of the eternal life force. A miracle child. Get up and fight.”
“Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.”
Source: The Infidelity Chain
“Don’t you dare muffle those sounds, lass. They are meant for my ears, and I’ll be damned if I let you deprive me of hearing them.” His rough hand gathers my wrists together before he forces them against the wall above my head. “What’s even better than hearing them, though… is swallowing them.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Don’t you dare pity her.
She traded a suffering soul for a throne of bones.
She exchanged watchful eyes for a court of her own.
The seasons of the earth depended on the very breath she took.
She had death wrapped around her fingers and spring at her beck and call and the ruler of the heavens tasked with finding her.
She turned the world upside down to find freedom.
The daughter of flowers escaped her prison made out of roots and thorns and became the queen of death and forged her new home out of shadows and power.”
Source: The Space Between the Stars and Our Eyes: A Collection of Short Poems
“Don't you dare pledge obedience to me! Don't you turn me into another religious band! I want you to endeavor into unknown, I want you to explore and expand.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Don’t you dare stop growing. Don’t you dare stop glowing. Keep being that dazzling beam of light you are. Shine bright, thrive on, and let your brilliance light up the world around you. Your journey is just warming up, and the best is yet to come. Stay radiant, stay unstoppable, and never let anyone or anything dim your sparkle. So go on, glow-getter, keep sparkling, and keep shining—because the world needs your light!”
“Don’t you dare try to muzzle my mouth when I am speaking for God.”
“Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?”
“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.’
- Judd”
Source: All In
“Don’t you ever cry again, Miss Zarish,” he said in a strict but mild tone. “I would rather die than see tears in your eyes.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?”
“Don't you ever do anything other than read?" said Chaol.”
Source: Throne of Glass