The desire to write grows with writing.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus
The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.
‐‐ Tim Walberg
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
‐‐ Steve Jobs
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
‐‐ Steve Jobs
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
‐‐ Luke Evans
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
‐‐ Angelo Scola
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
‐‐ Bobby Scott
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
‐‐ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
‐‐ Herodotus
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
‐‐ Polykarp Kusch
The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.
‐‐ Julian Castro
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
‐‐ Norman Borlaug
The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
‐‐ Josephus Daniels
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
‐‐ Neil Sheehan
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
‐‐ Annie Besant
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
‐‐ Henry W. Kendall
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
‐‐ Simone Weil
The destructive malware attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in late 2014 was an unprecedented cyber event for the United States in its scope, destructiveness, and economic implications. The FBI responded to this attack with an investigation that was groundbreaking in its scope and collaboration.
‐‐ James Comey
The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
‐‐ Andrew Nikiforuk
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
‐‐ Shaun Tan
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
‐‐ Christian Dior
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
‐‐ Dorothy Hodgkin
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
‐‐ Charles Eames
The details are not the details. They make the design.
‐‐ Charles Eames
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.
‐‐ Alex Berenson
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
‐‐ Eminem
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
‐‐ Bennett Cerf
The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
‐‐ Joe Biden
The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
‐‐ Cheyenne Jackson
The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer
The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
‐‐ Gale Norton
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
‐‐ Anna Lindh
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
‐‐ Felix Klein
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus
The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.
‐‐ Augustin Matata Ponyo
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.
‐‐ Douglass North
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
‐‐ Vladimir Kramnik