D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don't confuse legibility with communication.”
“Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.”
“Don't confuse meaning with truth.”
“Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
“Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.”
“Don't confuse small with insignificant.”
“Don't confuse symmetry with balance.”
“Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.”
“Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.”
“Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.”
“Don't confuse wealth with success.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.”
“Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.”
“Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”
“Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity.”
“Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you
breathe.”
“Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.”
“Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.”
“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”
“Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.”
“Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.”
“Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“Don't count on others to hand your life to you.”
“Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.”
“Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.”
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
“Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!”
“Don't count the people that you reach, reach the people who count”
“Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Don't count your check-ins before they cash.”
“Don't count your chickens before they egg.”
“Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.”
“Don't count your owls before they are delivered.”
“Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.”
“Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.”
“Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.”
“Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.”
“Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.”
“Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.”
“Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.”
“Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.”
“Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.”
“Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.”
“Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.”
“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
“Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.”
“Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility