D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.”
“Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Duduia veşnic citeşte,
Ştie clavirul, pictează -
Şi nopţi de-a rândul veghează,
Şi poate, de-aceea slăbeşte.
Se crede, şi unia spun -
Dar totul rămâne secret
Duduia visează-un poet,
Bizar, singuratec, nebun.”
“Duduklah sejenak, akan aku suguhkan jingga keemasan dan similir angin untukmu.
Setelah itu kita akan bercengkrama tentang rindu yang terpasung.”
“Dudé mucho antes de convencerme a mí misma de que debía seguir con aquel cometido. Reflexioné, sopesé opciones y valoré alternativas. Sabía que la decisión estaba en mi mano: sólo yo tenía la capacidad de elegir entre seguir adelante con aquella vida turbia o dejarlo todo de lado y volver a la normalidad (…)
Dejarlo todo y volver a la normalidad: sí, aquélla sin duda era la mejor opción. El problema era que ya no sabía dónde encontrarla. ¿Estaba la normalidad en la calle de la Redondilla de mi juventud, entre las muchachas con las que crecí y que aún se peleaban por salir a flote tras perder la guerra? ¿Se la llevó Ignacio Montes el día en que se fue de mi plaza con una máquina de escribir a rastras y el corazón partido en dos, o quizás me la robó Ramiro Arribas cuando me dejó sola, embarazada y en la ruina entre las paredes del Continental? ¿Se encontraría la normalidad en Tetuán de los primeros meses, entre los huéspedes tristes de la pensión de Candelaria, o se disipó en los sórdidos trapicheos con los que ambas logramos salir adelante? ¿Me la dejé en la casa de Sidi Mandri, colgada de los hilos del taller que con tanto esfuerzo levanté? ¿Se la apropió tal vez Félix Aranda alguna noche de lluvia o se la llevó Rosalinda Fox cuando se marchó del almacén del Dean’s Bar para perderse como una sombra sigilosa por las calles de Tánger? ¿Estaría la normalidad junto a mi madre, en le trabajo callado de las tardes africanas? ¿Acabó con ella un ministro depuesto y arrestado, o la arrastró quizás consigo un periodista a quien no me atreví a querer por pura cobardía? ¿Dónde estaba, cuándo la perdí, qué fue de ella? La busqué por todas partes: en los bolsillos, por los armarios y en los cajones; entre los pliegues y las costuras. Aquella noche me dormí sin hallarla.
Al día siguiente desperté con una lucidez distinta y apenas entreabrí los ojos, la percibí: cercana, conmigo, pegada a la piel. La normalidad no estaba en los días que quedaron atrás: tan sólo se encontraba en aquello que la suerte nos ponía delante cada mañana. En Marruecos, en España o Portugal, al mando de un taller de costura o al servicio de la inteligencia británica: en el lugar hacia el que yo quisiera dirigir el rumbo o clavar los puntales de mi vida, allí estaría ella, mi normalidad. Entre las sombras, bajo las palmeras de una plaza con olor a hierbabuena, en el fulgor de los salones iluminados por lámparas de araña o en las aguas revueltas de la guerra. La normalidad no era más que lo que mi propia voluntad, mi compromiso y mi palabra aceptaran que fuera y, por eso, siempre estaría conmigo. Buscarla en otro sitio o quererla recuperar del ayer no tenía el menor sentido.”
Source: The Time in Between
“Due altre cose ha detto nel corso degli anni: che certe donne non sono affatto misteriose ma vengono rese tali dall'incapacità degli uomini di capirle.
da "Il senso di una fine”
“Due anni all’estero gli avevano fatto dimenticare la mentalità ristretta della sua gente. Per loro anche chi viveva a due o tre miglia di distanza era uno straniero. Il fatto che qualcuno avesse allontanato da casa, a dieci miglia da lì, una ragazzina, per di più minorenne, era abbastanza per infiammare ogni genere di passione e pregiudizio, poco importava che lei fosse stata più che felice di seguirlo. Ross si era lasciato guidare dalla sua umanità e adesso lo accusavano di essere un rapitore. Be’, che i cani abbaiassero pure.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Due diligence involves a lot of paperwork and sometimes more footwork than you could possibly imagine; hopefully you’ll find the process of getting the job done as fascinating as I do. Real-world puzzle-solving is always going to interest me more than any novel, escape room, or video game. I do believe that the truth is out there; there is an answer if you ask the right questions.”
Source: Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld
“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”
“Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.”
“Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.”
Source: Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
“Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.”
“Due respect matters in any comparison; however, it does not justify the improper context. Use your insight to examine the facts and uncover the truth, regardless of anyone's caliber.”
“Due scugnizzi davano la caccia a un gatto zoppo, la cui morte avrebbe regalato alle loro magre esistenze un breve divertimento (223).”
Source: Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
“Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.”
“Due to a lack of integrity and morals, transparency has become a code word for dishonesty in many companies, governments, and among individuals. When they claim they are being transparent, what they often mean is that they are lying to you and have fabricated a story designed to be believable and put you at ease.”
“Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.”
“Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt.”
“Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.”
Source: Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Due to brain plasticity, whatever actions we do and thoughts we have either solidify existing neuronal connections or create new ones. If you’ve reinforced a thought pattern or habit for years or decades, it can seem like it’s just “who you are.” But it’s just a well-reinforced network in your brain — it can be overwritten.”
“Due to budget crunches, Bush has had to scale some of the programs. He has a new program, 'Leave A Couple of Kids Behind.'”
“Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.”
“Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.”
“Due to entropy, all promises containing the word never inevitably decay and break apart.”
Source: Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World
“Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.”
“Due to global warming people’s relationships will not get warmer.”
“Due to global warming, the theory of 80:20 has melted down, henceforth will be referred to as the 90:10 rule.”
Source: Slate
“Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.”
“Due to his inconvenient insistence on being dead, Dr. Graham Chapman was unable, rather than unwilling, to give us an account of his early life on tape.”
Source: The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons
“Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.”
“Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!”
“Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!”
Source: My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.”
“Due to my work in high altitude professional astronomy, the COVID-19 shutdown was not an issue for me as I was used to social isolation.”
“Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.”
“Due to Nepal's dependence on foreign assistance as the principal source of funding for its expanding development spending, its indebtedness has increased on a large scale.”
Source: Why Nepal Fails
“Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.”
“Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.”
“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.”
“Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly.”
“Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!”
“Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.”
Source: Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders
“Due to reliance on money, people are generally cajoled into working and lead to believe they have no other choice in this matter. Many are manoeuvred into living in monotone stacked boxes of apartment buildings where they return each sat like mindless drones to their tv sets and facebook pages.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“Due to self-ignorance, ego, and immaturity, wars have broken out across the world.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, within the circle of those who are experienced and advanced in years, the young person declaims ethical generalities. Young people will again and again find themselves in a situation that is so irritating, astounding, and incomprehensible to them that their word falls on deaf ears, while the word of an older person is heard and has weight even though its content is no different at all. It will be a sign of maturity or immaturity whether this experience leads them to understand that what is at stake here is not the stubborn self-satisfaction of old age, or the anxious effort to keep youth in their place, but the pereservation or violation of an essential ethical law. Ethical discourse needs authorization, which youth are simply not able to bestow upon themselves, even if they speak out of the purest pathos of their ethical conviction. Ethical discourse does not merely depend on the correct content of what is said, but also on the speaker being authorized to say it. Its validity depends not only on what is said, but also on who says it.”
Source: Ethics
“Due to success I started losing friends.”
“Due to the battle of 'Who is the Supreme Power?' among all the nations, I had closed all your national borders in the name of coronavirus inorder to achieve your inner peace”