All Quotes

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
‐‐ Joseph Epstein

The deck is stacked against Obama.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
‐‐ Mike Crapo

The Declaration is a magnificent document.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
‐‐ John Adams

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
‐‐ John Quincy Adams

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
‐‐ Sarah Vowell

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
‐‐ Alain Badiou

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
‐‐ J. Irwin Miller

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
‐‐ Luis Bunuel

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
‐‐ John Oates

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
‐‐ John Bates Clark

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.
‐‐ Tim Murphy

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.
‐‐ Vincent McNabb

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
‐‐ John Cheever

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
‐‐ Alice Munro

The deep sea is a scary world.
‐‐ James Wan

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
‐‐ Genevieve Gorder

The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.
‐‐ John Grisham

The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world?
‐‐ John McAfee

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.
‐‐ Eric Snow

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
‐‐ Sting

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
‐‐ L.A. Reid

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
‐‐ Richard Russo

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
‐‐ Marianne Moore