All Quotes

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.
‐‐ Robert Winston

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
‐‐ James Comey

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
‐‐ James Madison

The diversity lottery program is a proven method of offering a path to legal permanent status for residents of African nations and other underrepresented regions seeking a better life here in the United States.
‐‐ Cedric Richmond

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.
‐‐ Steve Stoute

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
‐‐ Johannes Kepler

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.
‐‐ James Buchan

The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!
‐‐ Jose Rizal

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!
‐‐ Max Stirner

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
‐‐ John Chrysostom

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.
‐‐ Margaret D. Nadauld

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
‐‐ Alfred Whitney Griswold

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
‐‐ Charles Williams

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
‐‐ Said Nursi

The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'
‐‐ Annie Potts

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
‐‐ Kieran Culkin

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The DNA showed I have a level of endurance in me which I never really realised, which makes sense.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

The do-not-call list puts the responsibility where it should be: on the telemarketers. If they want to make the calls, they should be the ones doing the work to ensure fairness.
‐‐ Julie Ann Dawson

The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
‐‐ Mary Doria Russell

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.
‐‐ Carre Otis

The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostracized. Call it 'seizure disorder,' not epilepsy, because fewer people would be frightened. Try to choose a profession as free from stress as possible.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
‐‐ Ashley Montagu

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot.
‐‐ David Tennant

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.
‐‐ Minnie Pearl

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
‐‐ Karl Shapiro

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.
‐‐ Mattie Stepanek