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 think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?”
“Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?”
“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“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." Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.”
“Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.”
“Don't you think it's strange how many referees work at Footlocker?”
“Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?”
“Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers”
“Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.”
“Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?”
Source: Six Plays
“Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?”
“Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?”
“Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.”
“Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?”
“Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!”
“Don't you think that the best things are already in view?”
“Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”
Source: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton: And Other One-act Plays
“Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.”
“Don't you touch me again. I will knock you out, junior!”
“Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.”
“Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't just say it when you feel good. You don't just say it when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's not sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world you wanna' do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional.”
“Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.”
Source: That Hideous Strength
“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.”
“Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.”
Source: The Heat of the Day
“Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.”
“Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?”
“Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.”
“Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.”
“Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”
“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy”
Source: The Fall of Shane MacKade: The MacKade Brothers, Book Four
“Don't you want the guy who'll forget about all the other things in his life before he forgets about you?”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?”
“Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!”
“Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.”
Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter
“Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?”
Source: Lost Lake
“Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!”
“Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.”
“Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?”
“Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.”
“Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.”
Source: The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work
“Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.”
“Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”
“Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want”
Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter
“Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”
Source: The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut
“Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.”
Source: Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel
“Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.”
Source: City of Bones