The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
‐‐ James Salter
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
‐‐ David Harsanyi
The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.
‐‐ Thomas R. Kelly
The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
‐‐ Guy Finley
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
‐‐ Ashley Montagu
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
‐‐ Georg Simmel
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
‐‐ Simon Schama
The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
‐‐ Rand Paul
The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren
The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht
The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
‐‐ Barton Gellman
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
‐‐ Isaac D'Israeli
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.
‐‐ Mathias Rust
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
‐‐ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
‐‐ Lech Walesa
The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.
‐‐ Sukarno
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.
‐‐ Martin Van Creveld
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
‐‐ Jeb Hensarling
The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt
The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.
‐‐ John W. Snow
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
‐‐ Max Eastman
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
‐‐ Sloan Wilson
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
‐‐ Maya Lin
The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
‐‐ Rachel Bloom
The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
‐‐ James Lipton
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
‐‐ Jay McInerney
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
‐‐ Malcolm McDowell
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
‐‐ Caitlin Doughty
The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.
‐‐ Gian Maria Volonte
The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?
‐‐ Henry Petroski
The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.
‐‐ Jeremy Luke
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
‐‐ Keyshawn Johnson
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
‐‐ Dick Ebersol
The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vampire Diaries,' and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev