All Quotes

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
‐‐ Horatio Nelson

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
‐‐ John Fowles

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small.
‐‐ Peter Hambleton

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

Dweebs are the new chic.
‐‐ Debby Ryan

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.
‐‐ John McAfee

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
‐‐ Valeria Mazza

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.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
‐‐ James Hetfield

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
‐‐ Caitlin Doughty

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
‐‐ Donald Wolfit

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
‐‐ Morrie Schwartz

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

Dying people often become childish.
‐‐ Georg Buchner

Dying should not be a taxable event.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.
‐‐ Raymond Moody

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.
‐‐ Gough Whitlam

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
‐‐ Beau Bridges

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.
‐‐ Rob Pike

Dynamism is a function of change.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
‐‐ Joan Collins

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
‐‐ Shania Twain

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.
‐‐ Lauren DeStefano

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
‐‐ Lauren Oliver

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
‐‐ Sarah Hall