All Quotes

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
‐‐ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discretion is not the better part of biography.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
‐‐ Christine Keeler

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
‐‐ Johnny Ball

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Discrimination is a disease.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

Discrimination is alive and soaring.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
‐‐ Ruth Gordon

Discussion in America means dissent.
‐‐ James Thurber

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
‐‐ Robert Quillen

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
‐‐ Harri Holkeri

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.
‐‐ Thomas Woods

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
‐‐ Edvard Munch

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.
‐‐ Georg Groddeck

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
‐‐ Mary Baker Eddy

Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
‐‐ Edward Bach

Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
‐‐ Elie Metchnikoff

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
‐‐ John Ray

Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.
‐‐ Valentina Zelyaeva

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
‐‐ Vittorio Alfieri

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
‐‐ Thomas Moore

Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
‐‐ Jess Row

Disharmony is natural in any band.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
‐‐ Dan Ariely

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
‐‐ George Bancroft

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
‐‐ G. M. Trevelyan

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
‐‐ Tina Brown

Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.
‐‐ Spencer Boldman