D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen”
“Don't take too much advice.”
“Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.”
“Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.”
“Don't take too much council from your fears.”
“Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!”
“Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition
“Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.”
“Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.”
“Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.”
Source: Klee Wyck
“Don't take your bad shots home with you.”
Source: Champagne Golf
“Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.”
“Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.”
“Don't take yourself so personally.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.”
Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness
“Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh.”
“Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!”
“Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.”
“Don't take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder. It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible. We make mistakes in life, and more often than not, they're funny. Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.”
“Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.”
“Don't talk - keep it in your heart.”
“Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.”
“Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.”
“Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Don't talk about it; write.”
“don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.”
“Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.”
“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
“Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.”
“Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.”
“Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.”
“Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.”
“Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.”
Source: Now We Are Six
“Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!”
Source: Moonchild
“Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker”
“Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!”
“Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.”
“Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk,
Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk”
“Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”
“Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.”
“Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.”
“Don't talk to me about gravity. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have to be careful not to step on my breasts.”
“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
“Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”
Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader
“Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.”
“Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.”
“Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.”
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.”
“Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence