Best Famous Quotes by: Gordon R. Dickson, Denis Diderot, Joan Didion, John George Diefenbaker, Ann Diehl, Dan Dierdorf, James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies, Marlene Dietrich, Howard Dietz, Jim Dietz, E. W. Dijkstra, Annie Dillard, Phyllis Diller, Abbe Dimnet, Ernest Dimnet, Isak Dinesen, Isak Dineson, John Dingell, Diogenes, Laertius Diogenes, Baba Dioum, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Paul Dirac, Richard Diran, Senator Everett Dirksen, Walt Disney, Benjamin Disraeli, Isaac Disraeli, Mike Ditka, and Dorothea Dix

Best Gordon R. Dickson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gordon R. Dickson

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. — Gordon R. Dickson

Best Denis Diderot Quotes: The most famous quotes by Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth. — Denis Diderot

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. — Denis Diderot

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. — Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. — Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. — Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism. — Denis Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. — Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. — Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. — Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. — Denis Diderot

Best Joan Didion Quotes: The most famous quotes by Joan Didion

Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs. — Joan Didion

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth… is potentially to have everything… — Joan Didion

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. — Joan Didion

Best John George Diefenbaker Quotes: The most famous quotes by John George Diefenbaker

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. — John George Diefenbaker

Best Ann Diehl Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ann Diehl

I think we’re seeing in working mothers a change from ‘Thank God it’s Friday’ to ‘Thank God it’s Monday.’ If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent. — Ann Diehl

Best Dan Dierdorf Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dan Dierdorf

If I’ve got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I’m going to succeed. — Dan Dierdorf

Best James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. — James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies

Best Marlene Dietrich Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marlene Dietrich

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me. — Marlene Dietrich

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. — Marlene Dietrich

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. — Marlene Dietrich

Its the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. — Marlene Dietrich

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlene Dietrich

Best Howard Dietz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Howard Dietz

I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz

Best Jim Dietz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jim Dietz

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears. — Jim Dietz

Best E. W. Dijkstra Quotes: The most famous quotes by E. W. Dijkstra

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. — E. W. Dijkstra

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — E. W. Dijkstra

Best Annie Dillard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Annie Dillard

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. — Annie Dillard

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination… If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. — Annie Dillard

Best Phyllis Diller Quotes: The most famous quotes by Phyllis Diller

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. — Phyllis Diller

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like. — Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. — Phyllis Diller

Best Abbe Dimnet Quotes: The most famous quotes by Abbe Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. — Abbe Dimnet

Best Ernest Dimnet Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. — Ernest Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. — Ernest Dimnet

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places. — Ernest Dimnet

Best Isak Dinesen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Isak Dinesen

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. — Isak Dinesen

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. — Isak Dinesen

Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. — Isak Dinesen

Best Isak Dineson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Isak Dineson

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost. — Isak Dineson

Best John Dingell Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Dingell

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF. — John Dingell

Best Diogenes Quotes: The most famous quotes by Diogenes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. — Diogenes

Best Laertius Diogenes Quotes: The most famous quotes by Laertius Diogenes

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed. — Laertius Diogenes

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man. — Laertius Diogenes

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. — Laertius Diogenes

Nothing can be produced out of nothing. — Laertius Diogenes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. — Laertius Diogenes

I am a citizen of the world. — Laertius Diogenes

All things are in common among friends. — Laertius Diogenes

‘Bury me on my face,’ said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, ‘Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.’ — Laertius Diogenes

Time is the image of eternity. — Laertius Diogenes

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance. — Laertius Diogenes

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. — Laertius Diogenes

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead. — Laertius Diogenes

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down. — Laertius Diogenes

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, ‘To know one’s self.’ And what was easy, ‘To advise another.’ — Laertius Diogenes

The mob is the mother of tyrants. — Laertius Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue. — Laertius Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions… that laws were like cobwebs, –for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. — Laertius Diogenes

Best Baba Dioum Quotes: The most famous quotes by Baba Dioum

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. — Baba Dioum

Best Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Quotes: The most famous quotes by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. — Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Best Paul Dirac Quotes: The most famous quotes by Paul Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. — Paul Dirac

Best Richard Diran Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Diran

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. — Richard Diran

Best Senator Everett Dirksen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Senator Everett Dirksen

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. — Senator Everett Dirksen

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can’t are those in cemeteries. — Senator Everett Dirksen

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. — Senator Everett Dirksen

Best Walt Disney Quotes: The most famous quotes by Walt Disney

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards — the things we live by and teach our children — are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. — Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney

All of our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. — Walt Disney

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. — Walt Disney

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known. — Walt Disney

Best Benjamin Disraeli Quotes: The most famous quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. — Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. — Benjamin Disraeli

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. — Benjamin Disraeli

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. — Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. — Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never complain and never explain. — Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. — Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. — Benjamin Disraeli

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. — Benjamin Disraeli

Said Waldershare, ‘Sensible men are all of the same religion.’ ‘And pray what is that’ … ‘Sensible men never tell.’ — Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. — Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. — Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. — Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader — Benjamin Disraeli

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

Every great decision creates ripples–like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. — Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think… — Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. — Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. — Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. — Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the child of audacity. — Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. — Benjamin Disraeli

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. — Benjamin Disraeli

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. — Benjamin Disraeli

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. — Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. — Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance never settles a question. — Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat…that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. — Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. — Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle. — Benjamin Disraeli

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. — Benjamin Disraeli

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. — Benjamin Disraeli

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. — Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. — Benjamin Disraeli

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. — Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. — Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. — Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. — Benjamin Disraeli

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. — Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken. — Benjamin Disraeli

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. — Benjamin Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. — Benjamin Disraeli

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. — Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. — Benjamin Disraeli

Best Isaac Disraeli Quotes: The most famous quotes by Isaac Disraeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac Disraeli

Best Mike Ditka Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mike Ditka

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final. — Mike Ditka

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. — Mike Ditka

Best Dorothea Dix Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dorothea Dix

In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. — Dorothea Dix

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