D Quotes
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“Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.”
Source: Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
“Dwight Eisenhower has been underestimated, which may relate to his advanced age in office, his somewhat uneven communications skills, and his failure to present a forward-looking vision on the rising issue of civil rights.”
“Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life - that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Eisenhower's parents assumed, and taught their children, that if their children weren't alive, their family couldn't function. (page 34)”
Source: Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
“Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.”
“Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.”
“DWIGHT:
Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
Source: Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
“Dwustu lat (1616-1835) potrzebowali katoliccy teolodzy, aby uznać udowodnioną tezę Kopernika o tym, że Ziemia krąży wokół Słońca. Za to nieudowodnionemu twierdzeniu o bezpłodnych dniach kobiety przyklasnęli pośpiesznie, pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej, zanim okazało się, że dni bezpłodne wprawdzie istnieją, ale znacząco różnią się od tych wskazanych przez Poucheta i Lecomte'a, i że fatalną pomyłką było biologiczne porównanie kobiety z suczką.”
Source: Ginekolodzy
“Dy5topia in the context of this book is a very real place, with very real 'inhabitants', but to understand Dy5topia you must first look closely at our world. Like the fisherman’s net that allows so much water to spill through, catching only the aquatic life, so too does Dy5topia collect only the fear of our world. Dy5topia is our dark reflection and a manifestation of our collective fears, and so its structure is created and maintained by our fear.”
Source: DY5TOPIA: A Field Guide to the Dark Universe of Chet Zar
“Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.”
“Dyeing our white hair leaves us, not younger, but older.”
“DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder was a Noise from a Drum or a Pan.
VANNBRUGGHE. (Aside) What a Child is this! (To Dyer) These are only our Devices, and are like the Paint of our Painted Age.
DYER. But in Meditation the Sunne is a vast and glorious Body, and Thunder is the most forcible and terrible Phaenomenon: it is not to be mocked, for the highest Passion is Terrour.”
Source: Hawksmoor
“Dygd är aldrig populär, ändå är dygd svaret.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Dyin' ain't much of a livin'.”
“Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.”
“Dyin' is a pain in the ass.”
“Dying - you can't do that to a cat.”
Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“Dying, after all, is the risk of killing.”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.”
“Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?”
“Dying alone is the reality of COVID-19.”
“Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together?”
“Dying at eighteen? Inconvenient.
Waking up in an afterlife academy with a soulmate? Absolutely unacceptable.”
Source: SOUL DORM: An Afterlife Academy Romance
“Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.”
“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.”
“Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.”
“Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are”
Source: The Onion Girl
“Dying feels like a familiar memory. Like a mental
imagery that is bone-deep, and somehow
melancholic. I am going to die. It is inevitable. It
is imminent. That is just the way the dice has
landed.”
Source: Metanoia: Different shades of life
“Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?”
“Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.”
“Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.”
“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”
Source: Cold Spring Harbor
“Dying for love only a true man shall do and living for love only a true woman shall do”
“Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.”
Source: Catch Me
“Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”
“Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.”
“Dying from COVID-19 asphyxiation will take you on a journey through forgetfulness, confusion, hallucinations and visions as you ascend into Heaven.”
“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.”
“Dying has taught me a great deal about living — about facing hard truths consciously, about embracing the suffering as well as the joy. Wrapping my arms around the hard parts was perhaps the great liberating experience of my life.”
Source: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“Dying Hours by Stewart Stafford
All debts were settled on Christmas Eve,
Fail to do so, and there’d be no reprieve,
In the dying flame of a guttering candle,
Monies got paid, and cash got handled.
When the last customer left to journey home,
Quinn, the shop owner, found himself alone,
He stared at pooling shadows, no one there,
Told himself to hurry, be with those who care.
As he closed up, something screamed out,
A figure from out of the dark began to shout,
A man with no eyes begged alms for the dead,
Or any old soup with a thick slice of bread.
Quinn said he was a business, not a charity,
The man’s eyes opened with some clarity,
“Very well,” the man said, “Nothing’s free,”
“I’ll drag your soul to Hell, come with me!”
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself.”
“Dying, I realize, is nothing more or less than the ultimate test of trust. Do you trust in - call it what you like, God, the universe, nature, science - or do you not? It is that simple, though not at all easy.”
Source: Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life
“Dying.
I slid to my knees before it, sinking into the bloody moss. “Let me help you. I can heal you.”
I’d do it the same way I’d helped Rhysand. Remove those arrows—and offer it my blood.
I reached for the first one, but a dry, bony hand settled on my wrist. “Your magic …,” it rasped, “is spent. Do not … waste it.”
“I can save you.”
It only gripped my wrist. “I am already gone.”
“What—what can I do?” The words turned thin—brittle.
“Stay …,” it breathed. “Stay … until the end.”
I took its hand in mine. “I’m sorry.” It was all I could think to say. I had done this—I had brought it here.
“I knew,” it gasped, sensing my shift in thoughts. “The tracking … I knew of it.”
“Then why come at all?”
“You … were kind. You … fought your fear. You were … kind,” it said again.
I began crying.
“And you were kind to me,” I said, not brushing away the tears that fell onto its bloodied, tattered robe. “Thank you—for helping me. When no one else would.”
A small smile on that lipless mouth. “Feyre Archeron.” A labored breath. “I told you—to stay with the High Lord. And you did.”
Its warning to me that first time we’d met. “You—you meant Rhys.” All this time. All this time—
“Stay with him … and live to see everything righted.”
“Yes. I did—and it was.”
“No—not yet. Stay with him.”
“I will.” I always would.
Its chest rose—then fell.
“I don’t even know your name,” I whispered. The Suriel—it was a title, a name for its kind.
That small smile again. “Does it matter, Cursebreaker?”
“Yes.”
Its eyes dimmed, but it did not tell me. It only said, “You should go now. Worse things—worse things are coming. The blood … draws them.”
I squeezed its bony hand, the leathery skin growing colder. “I can stay a while longer.”
I had killed enough animals to know when a body neared death. Soon, now—it would be a matter of breaths.
“Feyre Archeron,” the Suriel said again, gazing at the leafy canopy, the sky peeking through it. A painful inhale. “A request.”
I leaned close. “Anything.”
Another rattling breath. “Leave this world … a better place than how you found it.”
And as its chest rose and stopped altogether, as its breath escaped in one last sigh, I understood why the Suriel had come to help me, again and again. Not just for kindness … but because it was a dreamer.
And it was the heart of a dreamer that had ceased beating inside that monstrous chest.
Its sudden silence echoed into my own.
I laid my head on its chest, on that now-silent vault of bone, and wept.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
“Dying in one’s fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it’s not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “The reader can get into these shoes, walk a bit, and say, ‘So that’s what it looks like from here. Sooner or later, I’ll be back here in my own shoes.’ That’s what I’m aiming for, I think. Not the sensationalism of dying and not the exhortations to gather rosebuds but: Here’s what lies up ahead on the road.” Of course, he did more than just describe the terrain. He traversed it bravely.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.”
“Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.”
“Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.”
Source: The Summer of a Dormouse
“Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.”
“Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.”