Found 973 quotes starting with D:

Skip to:DDADBDC - DEDF - DHDI - DKDL - DNDO - DQDR - DTDU - DWDX - DZ

ADVERTISEMENT
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year
– Peter Ustinov
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
– Peter Ustinov
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
– John Green
Die I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
– John Barrymore
Die, but do not retreat.
– Joseph Stalin
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
– Ronald Reagan
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
– John Barrymore, last words
Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)
– Heinrich Heine
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
– Thomas Jefferson
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
– Wendell Phillips
Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary.
– George Washington
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
– Dejan Stojanovic
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
– Aristotle
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
– Henrik Ibsen
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
– George Eliot
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
– Simone Weil
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
– William Ellery Channing
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
– William Ellery Channing
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
– Epictetus
Difficulties in life are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction, When one door closes, another always opens
– The Omani Shed
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.
– Johann von Goethe
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
– Epictetus
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
– Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
– Seneca
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
– Edward R. Murrow

We need you!

Help build the largest human-edited quotes collection on the web!


The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings


A Member Of The STANDS4 Network