All Quotes

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
‐‐ Bono

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
‐‐ John Thorn

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
‐‐ Harlan Stone

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
‐‐ Diane Wakoski

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
‐‐ Sallust

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
‐‐ Nate Silver

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

Distributers don't need massive amounts of square feet to stock digital products. Retailers don't need brick-and-mortar stores to sell them. The entire supply chain for these select items has been permanently dematerialized. The marketplace has been blown to bits.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
‐‐ Derek Sivers

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
‐‐ Norman Douglas

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Disunion by force is treason.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

Disunity costs votes.
‐‐ John Major

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

Diva has a negative connotation.
‐‐ Glenn Close

Divas need their furs!
‐‐ Martha Reeves

Dive on them and squash them if you must.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor

'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.
‐‐ Theo James

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
‐‐ Veronica Roth

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.
‐‐ Fujio Mitarai

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that's not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.
‐‐ Harry Markowitz

Diversity does not preclude political stability.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
‐‐ Joe Klein

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
‐‐ Jinato Hu

'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
‐‐ Jacqueline Woodson

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.
‐‐ Fabiola Gianotti

Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word 'diversity,' they think that it means only people of color, when in reality, diversity is all-inclusive; it means everyone.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King