All Quotes

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
‐‐ Stanley Milgram

The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
‐‐ Najib Razak

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The disappointment of losing is huge.
‐‐ Jack Youngblood

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
‐‐ Robert Greenwald

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
‐‐ John Locke

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
‐‐ Jeffrey Archer

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

The disciplined are free.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.
‐‐ Stan Jones

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
‐‐ John Oliver

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
‐‐ Safak Pavey

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
‐‐ Patricia Sun

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.
‐‐ George Smoot

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
‐‐ Adam Shankman

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
‐‐ Harold Urey

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.
‐‐ Diana Quick

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.
‐‐ Nina Easton

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.
‐‐ Selman Waksman

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
‐‐ David Lee

The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in microelectronics.
‐‐ Klaus von Klitzing

The discovery of the Terror in, of all places, Terror Bay, on the southwest coast of King William Island, was the culmination of years of exertions by the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Navy, the Coast Guard, Parks Canada, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the Canadian Ice Service and other agencies.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
‐‐ Johannes Stark

The discovery of vitamin K arose from some studies on the cholesterol metabolism of chicks carried out during the years 1928-1930 in the Biochemical Institute of the University of Copenhagen.
‐‐ Henrik Dam

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.
‐‐ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave an additional impetus to development work on the various methods of producing them.
‐‐ Ernest Walton