D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
“Dust sleeping on your bookshelf
and all your plants are drying out
you are too busy to save yourself
is your mind heading for burnout?
Coffee rings on your bedside table
anxiety pills under your pillowcase
working round the clock to foot the bill
is there no time for breakfast these days?
Friends haven't seen you in a while
your phone is always out of reach
you're slowly forgetting how to smile
is your silence a figure of speech?
Life can sometimes seem to be unfair
but hoping is better than you think
send the message in a bottle if you dare
is it so hard to not force yourself to sink?”
“Dust specks of an insalubrious ego floated into my eyes and stopped me from seeing beyond myself. In the evening, I washed my face and I was surprised to see the mountains so close.”
“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.”
“Dust yourself off, girl, keep your chin up /
You wanna hold a gun but they made you a pinup”
“Dusted with frost, the mansion resembled a frozen palace from a fairytale. As I gazed at the white facade glinting in the morning light, I remembered that story I read as a kid – was it Narnia? – about the Snow Queen who seduced the little boy. I thought of the Snow Queen’s palace of dead kisses and frozen loveliness, its white sparkling beauty, twinkling like ice crystals. But there was no happiness in the Ice Maiden’s palace, was there? She stole laughter with her kisses that froze the heart. Had her icy fingers touched my heart, just as they had Sam’s?”
Source: The Millionaires' Death Club
“Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.”
Source: Inkspell
“Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.”
Source: Inkheart
“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”
“Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you're always getting something new from him. You never really know what he's going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.”
“Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were both so generous to me on the Rain Man set. I remember Tom was in the trailer when I said to the makeup guy, "You know, I would really like to not wear any makeup. I just have this feeling that she wouldn't have any." And Tom said, "Yeah, that's cool!"”
“Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.”
“Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what he's doing and that infects everyone. It certainly put me at ease coming to work with him every day. I felt his confidence and freedom rubbed off. He doesn't censor himself or stop an idea because he thinks it might be wrong.”
“Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.”
“Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him.”
“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Dusting requires either sheer courage or the complete absence of a soul.”
“Dustpaw, Sandpaw and Graypaw were play fighting, chasing one another's tails and bundling one another around the clearing.”
Source: Bluestar's Prophecy
“Dusty:... how long was I asleep?
Jed: Too long if you're sleeping without me.”
Source: Her Hi-Fi Hunk
“Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome.”
“Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.”
“Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.”
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.”
“Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.”
“Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Dutch painting: daily life is enough.”
“Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character
“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.”
“Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book you borrowed, that implies, roughly, that your doing so depends on your wanting to do so: if you want to bring me the book, you will. This is not the case if you are stuck at some airport due to a snowstorm, far away from me. This, however, is not the same as "ought" implying a metaphysical "can".”
“Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.”
Source: Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man
“Dutiful
How did I get so dutiful? Was I always that way?
Going around as a child with a small broom and dustpan,
sweeping up dirt I didn't make,
or out into the yard with a stunted rake,,
weeding the gardens of others
-the dirt blew back, the weeds flourished, despite my efforts-
and all the while with a frown of disapproval
for other people's fecklessness, and my own slavery.
I didn't perform these duties willingly.
I wanted to be on the river, or dancing,
but something had me by the back of the neck.
That's me too, years later, a purple-eyed wreck,
because whatever had to be finished wasn't, and I stayed late,
grumpy as a snake, on too much coffee,
and further on still, those groups composed of mutterings
and scoldings, and the set-piece exhortation:
somebody ought to do something!
That was my hand shooting up.
But I've resigned. I've ditched the grip of my echo.
I've decided to wear sunglasses, and a necklace
adorned with the gold word NO,
and eat flowers I didn't grow.
Still, why do I feel so responsible
for the wailing from shattered houses,
for birth defects and unjust wars,
and the soft, unbearable sadness
filtering down from distant stars?”
Source: The Door
“Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey—sunlit, golden, and gay. Given the time of year, the Count was expecting this first impression to be followed by a hint of lilacs from the Alexander Gardens or cherry blossoms from the Garden Ring. But as the elixir dissolved on his tongue, the Count became aware of something else entirely. Rather than the flowering trees of Central Moscow, the honey had a hint of a grassy riverbank . . . the trace of a summer breeze . . . a suggestion of a pergola . . . But most of all there was the unmistakable essence of a thousand apple trees in bloom.
"Nizhny Novgorod", he said.
And it was.”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.”
Source: Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
“Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.”
“Duty cannot exist without faith”
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
“Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.”
Source: Outlines of Theology
“Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.”
Source: The Sign of Jonas
“Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition
“Duty doesn't always fit comfortably.”
Source: The Forgotten Sisters
“Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas”
“Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Duty, Honor, Country" — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn...”
“Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.”
“Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.”
“Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
“Duty is divinity.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one’s self.”
Source: Seven Dogs in Heaven