All Quotes

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
‐‐ Naomi Judd

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
‐‐ Ben Lovett

A dear friend of mine always brings a pineapple instead of flowers when he comes to a show. I love it.
‐‐ Seth Numrich

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
‐‐ Craig Brown

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
‐‐ Homer

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
‐‐ Adam-Troy Castro

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
‐‐ Marina Tsvetaeva

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.
‐‐ John Yoo

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
‐‐ Fletcher Knebel

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
‐‐ Mika Waltari

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
‐‐ Ely Culbertson

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
‐‐ John McCarthy

A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
‐‐ Thurston Clarke

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.
‐‐ John Sarbanes

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
‐‐ Brene Brown

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
‐‐ John Foxe

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
‐‐ Tom C. Clark

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
‐‐ Mick Jones

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
‐‐ Joshua Harris

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.
‐‐ Connie Britton

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
‐‐ Irvin Mayfield

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
‐‐ Nick McDonell

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
‐‐ Graham Nelson

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
‐‐ Don Marquis

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
‐‐ Fisher Ames

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
‐‐ Al From

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.
‐‐ Ben Nelson

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.
‐‐ Robert Reich