D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.”
Source: The Line
“Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!”
Source: Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams
“Don’t you see? You’re as free as the winds of the high seas, which blow in whichever direction they please. Cast aside the doubts mangled in your mind, spread your wings, and soar high like the eagle, for you are made in Christ’s image and likeness.”
Source: Pent Up Thoughts
“Don’t you simply love going to bed. To curl up warmly in a nice warm bed, in the lovely darkness. That is so restful and then gradually drift away into sleep…”
Source: Letters of C. S. Lewis
“Don't you sometimes find it hard to remember God all through your work?" asked Clementina.
"I don't try to consciously remember Him every moment. For He is in everything, whether I am thinking of it or not. When I go fishing, I go to catch God's fish. When I take Kelpie out, I am teaching one of God's wild creatures. When I read the Bible or Shakespeare, I am listening to the word of God, uttered in each after its own kind. When the wind blows on my face, it is God's wind.”
Source: The Marquis' Secret
“Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?”
Source: Till We Have Faces
“Don't you think all stories are incomplete? I mean, people leave and people die. We are strangled by the baggage but we survive.”
Source: Orenda - flash fiction based in modern India
“Don't you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.”
Source: Paprika
“Don’t you think it’s a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court?”
Source: Firebug
“Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’
‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’
‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’
‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.”
Source: Me Before You
“Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to serve your principles. And in the army you don't get to pick and choose your fights according to your conscience. You kill on command. Don't ever surrender your right to make your own moral decisions, kid.”
Source: The Universe versus Alex Woods
“Don't you think it's possible your attachment to Merripen was a result of proximity as much as anything else?" Leo had asked gently. "Let's look at the situation honestly, Win. You have nothing in common with him. You're a lovely, sensitive, literate woman, and he's... Merripen. He likes to chop wood for entertainment. And apparently it falls to me to point out the indelicate truth that some couples are well-suited in the bedroom but not anywhere else."
Win had been shocked out of her tears by his bluntness. "Leo Hathaway, are you suggesting-"
"Lord Ramsay now, thank you," he had teased.
"Lord Ramsay, are you suggesting that my feelings for Merripen are carnal in nature?"
"They're certainly not intellectual," Leo had said, and grinned as she punched him in the shoulder.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.”
Source: The Railway Children
“Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?”
Source: Life Unaware
“Don’t you think it’s strange?” I said. He had gotten several feet ahead of me and he stopped and turned.
“What do you mean?”
“That we were children together.” I looked up at his face. “You’re so familiar to me—but not. I see my past in you—but you’re still a stranger.”
Source: The Last Innocent Hour
“Don't you think it's weird how dating profiles emphasize listings of your favorite TV shows, movies, and books? It's as if you are supposed to define yourself by how you distract yourself. It's like impersonating a person--this is what I do instead of engaging with other people.”
Source: Luciana
“Don’t you think it’s weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It’s like they’re trying to prove they exist.”
Source: Summer and the City
“Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly.”
Source: Minor Snobs
“Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?'
'Wouldn't it be great if it did?' I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Don’t you think she already knows that?” he said. “That she hasn’t considered minute to minute that she could ditch everything bravest, and run to your home? The fact that she stays and fights is a credit to her strength. That she is a woman and has little responsibility beyond vows forced upon her make her the bravest, truest person I have ever known. You belittle her by suggesting otherwise.”
Source: Lord Lucifer
“Don't you think something about her is different? More responsive, more open than she's ever been?"
"Ashna has always had too vulnerable a heart, Shobi. That's been the problem. She feels everyone's pain and internalizes it, and wants to take it away. I think the reason she's had such a hard time with you is that she didn't know what to do with yours. She finds your rage at the world too daunting. She blames herself for it.”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion
“Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?
Don’t you think that I’ve been giving up?Change,
I take the blame.”
“Don’t you think that seeing such a beautiful moon influences what one cooks? But not in the sense of ‘moon-viewing udon for instance.”
The elevator stopped with a little jerk. When he said that, my heart faltered for an instant. He spoke as if he knew my very soul. As we walked to the door, I asked, “In what sense then? In a more profound way?”
“Yes, yes. In a more human sense, you know?”
“I agree. That’s absolutely true,” I said without hesitation. If they asked a hundred people on a quiz show, a hundred voices would reverberate as one: “Yes! Yes! It’s true!”
Source: Kitchen
“Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?”
Source: Chloe Marr
“Don't you think they could be interested in progress?"
"They've seen some of it. There's only one aspect of progress that really excites them."
"What's that?"
"The electric guitar.”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option?”
Source: A Little Life
“Don't you touch my sister
or i will seriously try to kill you.
-Cyrus Smith”
Source: The Dragon's Tooth
“Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.”
Source: Fences
“Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" [Hermione] asked.
"No," said Ron and Harry together.
Hermione sighed and laid down her quill.
"Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings toward Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly."
A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her her quill again.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Don't you understand? If that's the case, then - then everything is dicated by random chance! Somewhere, there's a universe where you - for whatever reason - you didn't come looking for me, and I - I slit my throat. And who's to say that this universe is somehow better than that one? How can we claim that we live in a moral universe, and that every other one is immoral?”
Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous
“Don’t you understand? It’s forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!”
He catches his breath, swallowing hard. “And do you always follow the rules?”
“I—” Casting my gaze skyward, I draw a deep breath, searching for words among the stars. “It’s not about that. Do you know what kind of destruction we would cause? Have you not heard the story of your own people, how their city was destroyed, how thousands died? It was not hate that sparked the war between your people and mine, Aladdin. It was love. I held hands with Roshana the Wise and called her sister, and those words set our world on fire!”
There it is. My greatest shame, laid bare. The truth lies between us like broken glass. Surely now he sees what I truly am: a betrayer, a monster, an enemy. Aladdin stares at me, his face softening.
“That wasn’t your fault,” he says. “Loving someone is never wrong. And like you said, it’s not a choice. It just happens, and we’re all helpless in its power.”
“That doesn’t change the fact that the consequences are disastrous. As the poets say, shake hands with a jinni, and you shake hands with death.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and distorted all of us is--all around: it is in this very air! This swirling, seething, madness that you ask us all to help maintain! It's no good, Wally--your world. It's no--damn--good! You have forced me to take a position. Finally -- the one thing I never wanted to do. Just being for you is not enough. To live, to breathe--I've got to be against you.”
Source: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
“Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and distorted all of us is--all around: it is in this very air! This swirling, seething, madness that you ask us all to help maintain! It's no good, Wally--your world. It's no--damn--good! You have forced me to take a position. Finally -- the one thing I never wanted to do. Just not being for you is not enough. To live, to breathe--I've got to be against you”
Source: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
“Don’t you understand what I’m talking about? He’s going to kill himself, don’t you know that?”
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.”
Source: Across the Universe
“Don't you understand? You mean more to me that anything in this entire world.”
Source: Peter Pan
“Don’t you want a relationship like your parents have? They look at each other with love and heart, not just as an asset.” - Salvatore from The Tutor by Kailin Gow.”
Source: The Tutor
“Don't you want me to heal your arm?' His fingers tightened around my elbow.
'At what cost?' I shot back, but kept my head against the stone, needing its damp strength.
'Ah, that. Living among faeries has taught you some of our ways.'
I focused on the feeling of my good hand on my knee- focused on the dry mud beneath my fingernails.
'I'll make a trade with you,' he said casually, and gently set my arm down. As it met with the floor, I had to close my eyes to brace against the flow of the poisoned lightning. 'I'll heal your arm in exchange for you. For two weeks every month, two weeks of my choosing, you'll live with me at the Night Court. Starting after this messy three-trials business.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Don't you want this house to be filled with love and laughter again? Like when you were a kid? Jake to Sophie
I do. Although one could argue that its already full of love. Sophie to Jake (Chapter 13).”
Source: A Christmas Temptation
“Don’t you want this?” The pain in his voice ripped a hole inside her.
“I want you so damn much.” Her words choked in her throat. She forced a laugh to keep from crying. “Hell, we can’t seem to keep our hands off each other.”
“Should we try?”
-Kathy Kulig, Red Tape”
“Don't you want to kiss me?' she asks.
She smiles just a little, a hopeful, sweet smile, but buried in it is that confidence that slays me.”
Source: Everything Leads to You
“Don't you want to know what cookies is a code word for?"
"No! Good God, no!”
Source: Wait for You
“Don’t you want to know what I did?” I could have killed her for all he knew.
“Nope.” He motioned me to him.
“Could you be anymore chivalrous?” I touched his face. He smiled.
“I’d be anything you need me to be. That’s just who I am,” he said, he tilted his head up.”
Source: Black Moon
“Don’t you want to pierce the veil of the gods? To look at that which cannot be seen because it cannot really exist, and yet does?”
Source: The Babel Project
“Don't you waste another moment being something that you're not. Don't you dare forget that shining star that lights your sky. You hold on to what you dreamed of and let no one tear them down for that's all this life is ever all about...DARE TO STAND YOUR GROUND" (quote taken from the book "Suicide Kills")”
Source: Suicide Kills: Powerless to Powerful
“Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?"
"All the time.”
Source: The Secrets She Keeps
“Don't you worry child, late-night thoughts will get to you in some time.”