DAMAGE : The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. (Alan Paton: South African writer and anti-apartheid activist, 1903-1988)

DAMAGES : The victor belongs to the spoils. (Francis S. Key: U.S. lawyer, author, and amateur poet who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem , ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ 1896-1940)

DANCING : Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

DANCING : Dancing is the body made poetic. (Ernst Bacon: U.S. composer, pianist, conductor, and prolific author who received three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship, 1898-1990)

DANCING : Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music (George Carlin: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, 1937-2008)

DANCING : To move freely you must be deeply rooted. (Bella Lewitzky: U.S. dancer, choreographer, 1916-2004)

DANGER : A canary in the coal mine (Unknown Source: )

DANGER : A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

DANGER : Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. (Erwin Rommel: German general and military theorist who served as field marshal in the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, 1891-1944)

DANGER : Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Unknown Source: )

DANGER : Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

DANGER : Danger and delight grow on one stalk (English proverb: )

DANGER : Danger is very real but fear is a choice. (Will Smith: U.S. actor, film producer, and rapper tho has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Aware, and four Grammy Awards, Born 1968)

DANGER : Nothing in life is as exhilarating as to be shot at without results. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

DANGER : Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

DANGER : People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

DANGER : The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

DANGER : U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host. (Jon Stewart: U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host, Born 1962)

DANGER : When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

DARINGNESS : All glory comes from daring to begin. (Unknown Source: )

DARINGNESS : All serious daring starts from within. (Eudora Welty: U.S. short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South, 1909-2001)

DARINGNESS : No one reaches a high position without daring. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

DARINGNESS : Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

DARKNESS : Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DARKNESS : Don't curse the darkness - light a candle. (Chinese Proverb: )

DARKNESS : Even a small star shines in the darkness. (Finnish Proverb: )

DARKNESS : For the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Unknown Source: )

DARKNESS : I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer: U.S. novelist and film producer, Born 1973)

DARKNESS : Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. (Terry Pratchett: English author of fantasy novels, 1948-2015)

DARKNESS : Still waters run deep. (Latin Proverb: )

DATA : The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it. (Nasim Taleb: Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist, Born 1960)

DATING : Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

DATING : There’s a lid for every pot. (Unknown Source: )

DAUGHTERS : My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. (English proverb: )

DAUGHTERS : To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

DEADLINES : I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. (Duke Ellington: U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and conductor, 1899-1974)

DEADLINES : I love deadlnes. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. (Douglas Adams: U.S. English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, and dramatist, 1952-2001)

DEADLINES : One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. (Emile Zola: French writer, 1840-1902)

DEAFNESS : Social norms are not taught; they are overheard, but the one thing even the most skilled deaf people cannot do is overhear. (Unknown Source: )

DEATH : A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body. (Qavvim Al-Jawziyya: Medieval Islamic jurisconsult, Sunni theologian, and spiritual writer, 1292-1350)

DEATH : A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953)

DEATH : Adults who are racked with death anxiety are . . . men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality. (Irvin D. Yalom: U.S. psychiatrist and professor, Born 1931)

DEATH : As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

DEATH : As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico G. Lorca: Spanish poet, playwright, and painter, 1898-1936)

DEATH : Call no man happy till he is dead. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

DEATH : Death and taxes are inevitable. (Thomas C. Haliburton: Nova Scotian politician, member of the British Parliament, judge, author, and the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada, 1796-1865)

DEATH : Death ends a life, not a relationship. (Mitch Albom: U.S. author, journalist, and musician, Born 1958)

DEATH : Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

DEATH : Death is a reminder to live fully. (Ram Dass: U.S. Eastern spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, 1931-2019)

DEATH : Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

DEATH : Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

DEATH : Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

DEATH : Death tugs at my ear and says, "Live, I am coming." (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

DEATH : Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

DEATH : Death—the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

DEATH : Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

DEATH : Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht: German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet, 1898-1956)

DEATH : Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

DEATH : Give me liberty, or give me death. (Patrick Henry: U.S. attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

DEATH : Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. (Gunnar Mortensen: U.S. television cameraman on the "Good Morning Show," 1982-2022)

DEATH : He who fears death cannot enjoy life. (Spanish Proverb: )

DEATH : He who moves most fully into life feels most removed from death, and he who is least afraid of living is least afraid of dying. (Arthur Jersild: U.S. developmental psychologist at Columbia University, 1902-1994)

DEATH : It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

DEATH : Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

DEATH : Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. (Vladimir Nabokov: Russian-born novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977)

DEATH : People living deeply have no fear of death. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

DEATH : Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. (Candy Chang: Chinese Canadian actress and graphic artist, Born 1989)

DEATH : Six feet of dirt make all men equal. (Unknown Source: )

DEATH : Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

DEATH : The act of dying is one of the acts of life. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

DEATH : The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet B. Stowe: U.S. abolitionist and author, 1811-1896)

DEATH : The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. (Titus Livius: Roman historian, 59 B.C.E.-17 A.D.)

DEATH : The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. (Jewish proverb: )

DEATH : The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death, but in what dies inside while you live. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

DEATH : We learn from two experiences: Love and Death. (Vivian Elaine Johnson: U.S. writer, speaker, and counselor, Born 1935)

DEATH : Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. (Charles Frohman: U.S. theater manager and producer who discovered and promoted many stars of the American stage, 1856-1915)

DEATH : With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. (R. A. Salvatore: U.S. author, Born 1959)

DEATH PENALTY : It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not. (Remy de Gourmont: French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic, 1858-1915)

DEBATE : It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

DEBATE : It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. (Joseph Jaubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

DEBTS : A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

DEBTS : A pound of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. (English proverb: )

DEBTS : A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert W. Service: British-Canadian poet and writer, often called 'the Bard of the Yukon,' 1874-1958)

DEBTS : Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. (Herbert Hoover: U.S. engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States, 1874-1964)

DEBTS : Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. (Charlotte Cushman: U.S. stage actress, 1816-1876)

DEBTS : The future is purchased by the present. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

DEBTS : The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DEBTS : The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. (MacKenzie King: Canadian political leader who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada, the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history, 1874-1960)

DEBTS : Your debt Is someone else’s asset. (Unknown Source: )

DECEIT : In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

Deceitfulness : Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DECEPTION : Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. (Chinese Proverb: )

DECEPTION : Half the truth is often a great lie. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

DECEPTION : If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

DECEPTION : It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

DECEPTION : Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

DECEPTION : O, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

DECEPTION : One is easily fooled by that which one loves. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

DECEPTION : The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. (Turkish Proverb: )

DECEPTION : There is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. (Joseph Pulitzer: Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher, 1847-1911)

DECEPTION : You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

DECEPTION : You can hide the fire, but what are you going to do to rid the smoke? (Joel C. Harris: U.S. journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist, 1848-1908)

DECISION : Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. (Burt Lawlor: U.S. Audit manager)

DECISION : Let sleeping dogs lie. (Also 'It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.' (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400)

DECISIONS : A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

DECISIONS : A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

DECISIONS : Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

DECISIONS : As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DECISIONS : Better to be without logic than without feeling. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855)

DECISIONS : Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

DECISIONS : Deliberate often—decide once. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

DECISIONS : Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (G.K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, who has been referred to as the ‘Prince of Paradox,’ 1874-1936)

DECISIONS : Either mend or end. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

DECISIONS : He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. (Chinese Proverb: )

DECISIONS : I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. (Stephen Covey: U.S. educator, author, and businessman, 1932-2012)

DECISIONS : If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

DECISIONS : If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions (Catherine Cook: U.S. co-founder of 'My Yearbook' at age 15, Born 2001)

DECISIONS : In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. (Wilma Mankiller: Native American activist, social worker, and community developer in the Cherokee nation, 1945-2010)

DECISIONS : In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. (Joseph Jaubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

DECISIONS : It is better to find the way out than to stand and scream at the forest. (Senegalese Proverb: )

DECISIONS : It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

DECISIONS : It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

DECISIONS : Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you only spend it once. (Lillian Dickson: U.S. independent missionary, author, and public speaker who was known as an influential figure in the development of the U.S. middle class during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 1901-1983)

DECISIONS : Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

DECISIONS : No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but also the world as it will be. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

DECISIONS : Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

DECISIONS : Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. (Harry A. Hopf: British practitioner and pioneer in Management, 1882-1949)

DECISIONS : Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol: U.S. educator, activist, and prize-winning author, Born 1936)

DECISIONS : Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. (Alexandra Ripley: U.S. writer best known as the author of "Scarlett," written as a sequel to "Gone with the Wind," 1934-2004)

DECISIONS : So, tell me: where shall I go? To the left, where nothing is right—or to the right, where nothing is left? (Masashi Kishimoto: Japanese artist of graphic novels and comic art whose manga series has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries, Born 1974)

DECISIONS : Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

DECISIONS : The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

DECISIONS : The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Henri F. Amiel: Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

DECISIONS : The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DECISIONS : The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

DECISIONS : The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

DECISIONS : The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella I. Charnaud: English philanthropist who founded the Women's Voluntary Service and became the first female member in the House of Lords, 1894-1971)

DECISIONS : To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing- (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : We must each ask ourselves: "What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour"—and do it! (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : What you do makes a difference. But you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. (Jane Goodall: English primatologist, anthropologist, and advocate of environmental conservation, who is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Born 1934)

DECISIONS : What you don't do can be a destructive force. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

DECISIONS : Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

DECISIONS : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

DECISIONS : You are always one decision from a completely different life. (Mel Robbins: U.S. podcast host, author, motivational speaker, and former lawyer, Born 1968)

DECISIONS : You cannot have your cake and eat it too. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. (John Lydgate: English monk and poet, 1370-1451)

DECISIONS : You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. (Unknown Source: )

DECISIONS : You don't get to choose how or when you're going to die. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941)

DECISIONS : You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

DECISIONS : You must lose a fly to catch a trout. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

DECISIONS : You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. (Ursula K. LeGuin: U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

DEDICATION : The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. (Dan Dennett: U.S. philosopher and cognitive scientist, 1942-2024)

DEEDS : By his deeds we know a man. (African Proverb: )

DEEDS : Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

DEEDS : Words gain credibility by deed. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

DEFEAT : A man can be destroyed but not defeated. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

DEFEAT : A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

DEFEAT : Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. (Frederick W. Robertson: English theologian, 1816-1853)

DEFEAT : Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. (Charles J. Clark: Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada, Born 1939)

DEFEAT : Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

DEFEAT : Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843)

DEFEAT : Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

DEFEAT : Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

DEFEAT : The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

DEFEAT : There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

DEFEAT : Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

DEFEAT : Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

DEFEAT : What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

DEFENSE : Drawing all the wagons in a circle to defend the status quo will not keep out the night. (Unknown Source: )

DEFIANCE : Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

DEFINING : To define it is to confine it. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

DEFINITIONS : Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

DELAY : Delay is preferable to error. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DELAY : Delay is the deadliest form of denial. (Cyril N. Parkinson: British historian and widely published author, 1909-1993)

DELAY : Deliberation often loses a good chance (Latin Proverb: )

DELAY : Let sleeping dogs lie. (Also 'It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.' (Geoffrey Chaucer: English poet, author, and civil servant, known for being called the "Father of English Literature," 1340-1400)

DELAY : The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

DELAY : The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

DELIBERATION : Deliberation often loses a good chance (Latin Proverb: )

DELIBERATION : Deliberation often loses a good chance. (Unknown Source: )

DELIBERATION : Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

DELIBERATION : He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

DELIBERATION : It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

DELIBERATION : The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

DELIBERATION : Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

DELIBERATION : Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DELIGHT : Danger and delight grow on one stalk (English proverb: )

DELUSIONS : It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

DELUSIONS : No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

DELUSIONS : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

DEMENTIA : One of the hardest things to process is the slow change in the one you love. It’s called ‘The Long Goodbye’. (Unknown Source: )

DEMENTIA : Senility and Enlightenment are in a race to the finish. (Unknown Source: )

DEMOCRACY : Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. (Aharon Barak: Israeli law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Born 1936)

DEMOCRACY : Anti-intellectualism fosters the false notion that democracy means that ‘my Ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

DEMOCRACY : Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol: U.S. journalist who was dubbed the 'Godfather of Neoconservatism,' 1920-2009)

DEMOCRACY : Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

DEMOCRACY : Democracy is a system of constructive contention. (Marshall Ganz: U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)

DEMOCRACY : Democracy is the worst form of government —except all the others. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

DEMOCRACY : Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

DEMOCRACY : Divided opinions have convulsed societies since Greece and Rome; they are the oxygen of a free government. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DEMOCRACY : For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

DEMOCRACY : Free and fair elections are a necessary—but not sufficient—condition of democracy. (Uwe Bott: U.S. international political-economic consultant, Born 1956)

DEMOCRACY : It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. (Thomas Stoppard: Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937)

DEMOCRACY : Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

DEMOCRACY : Our democracy stands on a knife’s edge. (Tom Cotton: U.S. attorney, military veteran, and politician, Born 1977)

DEMOCRACY : The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

DEMOCRACY : The most important political office is that of private citizen. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

DEMOCRACY : The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities. (Lucius D. Clay: U.S. senior Army officer, known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II, 1898-1978)

DEMOCRACY : The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings . . . but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

DEMOCRACY : The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. (Unknown Source: )

DEMOCRACY : The world must be made safe for democracy. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

DEMOCRACY : We can have democracy . . . or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

DEMOCRACY (U.S.A.) : If the U.S. entered World War 1 to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America. (Emma Goldman: Russian-American writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, 1869-1940)

DEMOCRACY (U.S.A.) : The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

DEMOCRACY (U.S.A.) : The peril of this nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope. (Charles E. Hughes: U.S. statesman, Governor of New York, and jurist in the Supreme Court, 1862-1948)

DEMONS : A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

DEMONS : If you don’t deal with your demons, your demons will deal with you (Ben Affleck: U.S. actor and filmmaker, whose accolades include two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, Born 1972)

DEMONS : One need not be a chamber to be haunted . . . . The brain has corridors surpassing material place. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

DEMONS : Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels. (Dakin Williams: U.S. attorney, politician, author, and brother of the playwright, Tennessee Williams, 1919-2008)

DEMONSTRATORS : We haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses. (Lewis Thomas: U.S. physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher, 1913-1993)

DENIAL : Delay is the deadliest form of denial. (Cyril N. Parkinson: British historian and widely published author, 1909-1993)

DENIAL : We must believe before we can doubt, and doubt before we can deny. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

DENTISTRY : Some tortures are physical / And some are mental / But the one that is both / Is dental. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

DEPENDENCY : Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

DEPENDENCY : There are two kinds of people on earth—the people who lift and the people who lean. (Ella W. Wilcox: U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

DEPICTIONS : Will we . . . become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality? (Christine Rosen: U.S. senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advance Studies in Culture, Born 1973)

DEPRESSION : An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. (Goi Nasu: Japanese author)

DEPRESSION : Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

DEPRESSION : Depression is a condition described as ‘when one’s life feels like a stick of gum that’s lost its flavor’. (Unknown Source: )

DEPRESSION : Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. (Johnny Bench: U.S. former professional baseball catcher and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Born 1947)

DEPRIVATION : All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted. (Janice Erskine Stuart: English Roman Catholic nun and educator, 1857-1914)

DESCENDENTS : Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

DESEGREGATION (U.S.) : The stories we tell reveal who we are and who we can be. (Robbie Mendez: U.S. son of Sylvia Mendez who in 1947 led a court case leading to the Brown vs. Board of Education case that desegregated public schools nationwide.)

DESIGN : Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi: Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957)

DESIGN : Form follows function. (Louis H. Sullivan: U.S. architect who has been called the 'Father of skyscrapers' and who posthumously received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1856-1924)

DESIGN : Luck is the residue of design. (Branch Rickey: U.S. baseball player and sports executive, 1881-1965)

DESIGN : We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

DESIGNATIONS : What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DESIRE : Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. (Unknown Source: )

DESIRE : Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

DESIRE : He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. (Persian Proverb: )

DESIRE : I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

DESIRE : In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. (Jane Smiley: U.S. novelist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Born 1949)

DESIRE : One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and long life. (Aleksandr Bogomoletz: Ukrainian pathophysiologist, 1881-1946)

DESIRE : The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne: Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)

DESIRE : The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

DESIRE : There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible. (Patrick J. O'Rourke: U.S. political satirist and journalist, Born 1947)

DESIRE : We fear the things we want most. (Robert Anthony: U.S. organizational theorist, and professor of management control at Harvard Business School, 1916-2006)

DESIRE : What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986)

DESPAIR : Action is the antidote to despair. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941)

DESPAIR : Despair doubles our strength. (English proverb: )

DESPAIR : It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

DESPAIR : Life begins on the other side of despair. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

DESPAIR : Stars cannot shine without darkness. (Unknown Source: )

DESPERATION : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

DESPERATION : When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

DESPOTISM : In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. (Lazare Carnot: French mathematician, physicist, military officer, and politician, 1753-1823)

DESTINATION : If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

DESTINATION : It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. (Ursula K. LeGuin: U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

DESTINATION : One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller: U.S. novelist, 1891-1980)

DESTINATIONS : Roads were made for journeys not destinations. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

DESTINATIONS : When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

DESTINY : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny. (Unknown Source: )

DESTINY : Character is Destiny. (Unknown Source: )

DESTINY : Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved. (William J. Bryan: U.S. politician, attorney, and prosecutor who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, 1876-1908)

DESTINY : One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to void it. (French Proverb: )

DESTRUCTION : Landmines are weapons of mass destruction in slow motion. (Jerry White: U.S. Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia and co-founder of Landmine Survivor Network, Born 1963)

DETAILS : It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

DETERMINATION : A stout heart breaks bad luck. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

DETERMINATION : Be the best of whatever you are. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DETERMINATION : Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. (Burt Lawlor: U.S. Audit manager)

DETERMINATION : Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

DETERMINATION : Fall down seven times, get up eight. (Unknown Source: )

DETERMINATION : I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. (William L. Garrison: U.S. abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, 1805-1879)

DETERMINATION : If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

DETERMINATION : Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

DETERMINATION : One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

DETERMINATION : The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

DETERMINATION : The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, looking . . . neither to the right nor the left. (Unknown Source: )

DETERMINATION : The question isn't who is going to let me; it;s who is going to stop me. (Ayn Rand: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter, 1905-1982)

DETERMINATION : What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

DETERMINATION : When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. (Robert Breault: U.S. freelance writer (Born 1938))

DETERMINATION : When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. (Rosa Parks: U.S. activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, 1913-2005)

DETERMINATION : Where there's a will, there's a way. (English proverb: )

DETOURS : Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. (Angela N. Blount: U.S. author and memoirist, Born 1931)

DETOURS : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown Source: )

DEVELOPERS : If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. (Joseph W. Krutch: U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

DEVELOPERS : When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. (Joseph W. Krutch: U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

DEVELOPMENT : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George: U.S. economist, journalist, and philosopher, 1839-1897)

DEVELOPMENT : What some invent the rest enlarge. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

DIAMONDS : Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

DIARIES : Everyone should keep someone else's diary. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

DIARIES : Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin: U.S. novelist and a long-time published author, Born 1946)

DICTATORSHIP : Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

DICTIONARIES : A dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

DICTIONARIES : Dictionaries are spellbinders. (Unknown Source: )

DICTIONARIES : I have studied the dictionary often, but I never could discover the plot. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

DICTIONARIES : The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style. (Phillip B. Gove: U.S. lexicographer who in 1961 was the editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1902-1972)

DIET : Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. (William G. Beymer: U.S. novelist and Assoc. Professor of history, 1881-1969)

DIET : Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. (Doug Larson: U.S. newspaper columnist and editor, 1926-2017)

DIET : The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

DIET : This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from. (David S. Landes: U.S. professor of economics and of history at Harvard University, 1924-2013)

DIETING : If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner (Henry S. Leigh: English writer, poet, and playwright, 1837-1883)

DIETING : The U.S.A. is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (Unknown Source: )

DIFFERENCES : 'Chalk and cheese' —as different as night and day (Unknown Source: )

DIFFERENCES : It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. (Audre Lorde: U.S. writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist, 1934-1992)

DIFFERENCES : Two people can be as different from one another as night and day, or ‘chalk and cheese’. (John Gower: 14th century English poet, author of ‘The Lover’s Confession,’ and friend of Chaucer, 1325 (?)-1403)

DIFFICULTIES : Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

DIFFICULTIES : Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954)

DIFFICULTIES : In times of difficulty friendship is on trial. (Greek Proverb: )

DIFFICULTIES : It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. (Lajos Kossuth: Hungarian statesman who served as Governor-President of Hungary during the 1848-49 revolution, 1802-1894)

DIFFICULTIES : Life is very interesting . . . . In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. (Drew Barrymore: U.S. actress, producer, director, and talk show host, Born 1975)

DIFFICULTIES : Only in the darkness can you see the stars. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DIFFICULTIES : Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Theodore N. Vail: U.S. leader of the American Telephone and Telegraph who viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system, 1845-1920)

DIFFICULTIES : The best way out of a difficulty is through it. (Unknown Source: )

DIFFICULTIES : The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. (Dan Reeves: U.S. Athlete and head coach of the National Football League, 1944-2022)

DIFFICULTIES : Worries go down better with soup than without. (Jewish proverb: )

DIGNITY : Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

DIGNITY : Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. (Christabel Parkhurst: British suffragette who supported the war against Germany, 1880-1958)

DILEMMAS : Do not catch a leopard by its tail, but if you do, then do not let it go. (Ethiopian Proverb: )

DILIGENCE : Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

DILIGENCE : Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

DILIGENCE : I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit. (Helena Rubenstein: Polish American businesswoman, art collector, philanthropist, and founder of famous cosmetics company,1872-1965)

DILIGENCE : I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DILIGENCE : I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DILIGENCE : I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. (Unknown Source: )

DILIGENCE : Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. (English proverb: )

DILIGENCE : Intuition and creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley: U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, Ideo, Born 1951)

DILIGENCE : The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy. (Thomas Arnold: English educator and historian, 1795-1842)

DILIGENCE : The gods help those who help themselves. (Greek Proverb: )

DILIGENCE : The harder you work, the luckier you get. (Gary Player: South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time, Born 1935)

DILIGENCE : The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. (James B. Hill: U.S. inventor, 1856-1945)

DILIGENCE : Work hard in your silence. (Unknown Source: )

DIPLOMACY : A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. (Unknown Source: )

DIPLOMACY : An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. (Henry Wotton: English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)

DIPLOMACY : Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

DIPLOMACY : Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way. (Isaac Goldberg: U.S. journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer, 1887-1938)

DIPLOMACY : If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy. (Joseph Nye: U.S. political scientist and author of "Soft Power," Born 1937)

DIPLOMACY : This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. (James Reston: U.S. journalist, 1909-1995)

DIPLOMATS : A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. (Unknown Source: )

DIPLOMATS : A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. (Caskie Stinnett: U.S. award-winning essayist)

DIRECTION : If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

DISABILITIES : Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day. (Unknown Source: )

DISABILITIES : I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes. (Horatio Nelson: British flag officer in the Royal Navy, 1759-1805)

DISABILITIES : I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

DISABILITIES : Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

DISABILITIES : The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

DISAGREEMENT : Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi, and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch: English professor and author, Born 1967)

DISAGREEMENT : It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. (William G. McAdoo Jr.: U.S. lawyer and politician who played a major role in the administration of his father-in-law, President Woodrow Wilson 1863-1941)

DISAGREEMENT : The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

DISAGREEMENT : We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue. (Murad Gharibian: U.S. dentist, Born 1969)

DISAGREEMENT : When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. (Richard Dawkins: British evolutionary biologist and author, Born 1941)

DISAPPOINTMENT : Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. (Boyle Roche: Irish politician, 1736-1807)

DISAPPOINTMENT : Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)

DISAPPOINTMENT : Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. (Unknown Source: )

DISAPPOINTMENT : If there were no clouds, we would not enjoy the sun. (Unknown Source: )

DISBELIEF : Disbelief is a form of belief. (Unknown Source: )

DISCARDING : The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

DISCIPLINE : Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing. (Unknown Source: )

DISCIPLINE : Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

DISCIPLINE : Freedom is on the other side of discipline. (Jake Gyllenhaal: U.S. actor, Born 1980)

DISCIPLINE : Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. (Julie Andrews: English actress, singer, and author who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 'Mary Poppins' and the Golden Globe Award for her leading role in 'The Sound of Music,' Born 1935)

DISCIPLINE : Spare the rod and spoil the child. (English proverb: )

DISCIPLINE : The joy of the young is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

DISCIPLINE : We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

DISCOMFORT : Discomfort is at the root of all growth and learning (Unknown Source: )

DISCOMFORT : If you’re avoiding discomfort, you’re avoiding growth. (Unknown Source: )

DISCONTENT : And from the discontent of man the world's best progress springs. (Ella W. Wilcox: U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

DISCONTENT : Discomfort is at the root of all growth and learning (Unknown Source: )

DISCONTENT : Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. (C. V. Wedgwood: English historian, 1910-1997)

DISCONTENT : Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

DISCONTENT : Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht: German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet, 1898-1956)

DISCONTENT : Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

DISCONTENT : Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

DISCONTENTEDNESS : As a rule, man is a fool, When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not. (Unknown Source: )

DISCOURAGEMENT : Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

DISCOVERERS : He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. (Unknown Source: )

DISCOVERERS : The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. (Jerome Bruner: U.S. psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory, 1915-2016)

DISCOVERERS : They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

DISCOVERIES : I am certain of . . . the truth of imagination. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)

DISCOVERIES : When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history. (Scott Belsky: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc., Born 1980)

DISCOVERY : Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding: British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)

DISCOVERY : Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. (Albert von Szent-Gyorgy: Hungarian biochemist who is credited with having discovered vitamin C, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1893-1986)

DISCOVERY : Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)

DISCOVERY : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

DISCOVERY : If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

DISCOVERY : It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

DISCOVERY : Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

DISCOVERY : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DISCOVERY : Mistakes are the portals for discovery. (James Joyce: Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic, 1882-1941)

DISCOVERY : Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil: French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909-1943)

DISCOVERY : The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DISCOVERY : The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. (Arthur Koestler: Hungarian-British author and journalist, 1905-1983)

DISCOVERY : The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. (John N. Bahcall: U.S. astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1935-2005)

DISCOVERY : The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. (Humphrey Davy: Cornish chemist and inventor, 1778-1829)

DISCOVERY : There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

DISCOVERY : We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

DISCOVERY : We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

DISCRETION : Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

DISCRETION : The better part of valor is discretion. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DISCRETION : U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host. (Jon Stewart: U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host, Born 1962)

DISCRIMINATION : All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. (Rudyard Kipling: English journalist, short-story writer, poet, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1865-1936)

DISCRIMINATION : Caste makes distinction among creatures where God has made none. (Charles Sumner: U.S. statesman and Senator who, as an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, was a leader of the anti-slavery forces, 1811-1874)

DISCRIMINATION : I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

DISCRIMINATION : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

DISCRIMINATION : In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

DISCRIMINATION : Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate. (Patricia H. Collins: U.S. academic specializing in race, class, and gender, Born 1948)

DISCRIMINATION : Our minds are primed for us and them . . . . Who we see as one of us determines who we let inside our circle of care and concern. This happens before conscious thought. (Valarie Kaur: U.S. activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader, Born 1981)

DISCRIMINATION : The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

DISCRIMINATION : What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DISCRIMINATION : Without capitalism, the world might never have experienced racial discrimination. (Oliver C. Cox: Trinidadian-U.S. sociologist who was often misconceived as a Marxist due to his focus on class conflict and capitalism; however, Cox fundamentally disagreed with Marx's analysis of Capitalism, 1901-1974)

DISDAIN : A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

DISDAIN : He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered. (Ring Lardner: U.S. sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre — and whose contemporaries professed strong admiration for his writing, 1885-1933)

DISDAIN : If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. (John Brunner: British writer of science fiction novels, 1934-1995)

DISDAIN : Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

DISEASES : Some remedies are worse than the disease. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

DISENGAGEMENT : Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

DISHONESTY : Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

DISHONESTY : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source: )

DISHONESTY : Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper. (French Proverb: )

DISHONOR : Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery. (Emmeline Pankhurst: British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland, 1858-1928)

DISILLUSIONMENT : Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler: Hungarian-British author and journalist, 1905-1983)

DISLIKES : There is no accounting for taste. (Unknown Source: )

DISLOYALTY : We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

DISOBEDIENCE : Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

DISOBEDIENCE : The joy of the young is to disobey, but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

DISPOSITION : A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

DISPOSITION : The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington: U.S. wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States, 1731-1802)

DISPOSITION : When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

DISSENT : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich: U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

DISSENT : We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

DISSENT (U.S.A.) : Dissent is not only patriotic, it is the essence of what being an American is all about. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

DISSENT (U.S.A.) : Dissent is not only patriotic; it is the essence of what being an American is all about. (Unknown Source: )

DISSENT (U.S.A.) : The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent. (Leon Eisenberg: U.S. child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist, and medical educator, 1922-2009)

DISTANCE : A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

DISTANCE : Distance is a great promoter of admiration! (Denis Diderot: French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784)

DISTRACTIONS : Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness/Where rumour of oppression and deceit/Of unsuccessful or successful war/Might never reach me more (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800)

DISTRACTIONS : The secret of patience . . . is to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown Source: )

DISTRACTIONS : We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

DISTRUST : What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

DISTURBANCE : If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSIFICATION : A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

DIVERSION : All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

DIVERSITY : America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. (Louis Brandeis: U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the 'People's Lawyer,' 1856-1941)

DIVERSITY : America is . . . the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The Real American has not yet arrived . . . I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman. (Israel Zangwill: British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, 1864-1926)

DIVERSITY : Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

DIVERSITY : Civilization is the encouragement of differences. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

DIVERSITY : Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive)

DIVERSITY : Diversity is the art of thinking independently together. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

DIVERSITY : I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DIVERSITY : If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor)

DIVERSITY : If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

DIVERSITY : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

DIVERSITY : It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping: Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served from 1978 to 1989 as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China, 1994-1997)

DIVERSITY : It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees—the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life. (Richard Bangs: U.S. travel writer, Born 1950)

DIVERSITY : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples . . . and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

DIVERSITY : It takes all sorts of people to make a world. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

DIVERSITY : Just as cosmic pluralism entertains the possibility of diverse forms of life in the universe, societal pluralism emphasizes the importance of appreciating diverse identities, cultures, and worldviews on Earth. (Anaximander: Pre-Socratic philosopher and author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy, 611 B.C.-546 B.C.)

DIVERSITY : London is a roost for every bird. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

DIVERSITY : One and Many: One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . . . (Noel P. Stookey: U.S. singer and songwriter of the 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' trio, Born 1937)

DIVERSITY : One man's meat is another's poison. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DIVERSITY : People differ: Some object to the dancer, and others to the fan. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855)

DIVERSITY : Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

DIVERSITY : Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Tobias Smollett: Scottish poet and author. 1721-1771)

DIVERSITY : Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. (Max Beerbohm: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist, 1872-1956)

DIVERSITY : The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

DIVERSITY : The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. (William McKinley: U.S. 25th president, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term, 1843-1901)

DIVERSITY : The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

DIVERSITY : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

DIVERSITY : The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

DIVERSITY : We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

DIVERSITY : While living in a different culture, you may not always have ready access to a mirror, but it’s likely to be one of the most reflective times of your life. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY : You live a new life for every new language you speak. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY (U.S.A.) : There is a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent, we would be welcomed into the U.S. American fellowship. However, the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names. (Unknown Source: )

DIVERSITY (U.S.A.) : We may have come here on different ships, but we're all in the same boat. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

DIVISIVENESS : If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. (Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president of the United States, who 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War, 1822-1885)

DIVISIVENESS : We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, 'wheat and chaff go together.' (Patricio Aylwin: Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

DIVORCE : Divorce is like an amputation. Nobody dies from lack of sex. (Margaret Atwood: Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor, Born 1939)

DIVORCE : I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff. (Lewis Grizzard: U.S. writer and humorist, 1946-1994)

DIVORCE : You don't know a spouse until you divorce him or her. (Unknown Source: )

DIVORCE : You don't know someone until you divorce them. (Amy Robach: U.S. award-winning journalist and former news anchor, Born 1973)

DIVORCE : You don't really know the person you marred until you divorce. (Zsa Zsa Gabor: Hungarian-American actress and socialite, 1917-2016)

DOCTRINE : Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

DOGMATISM : It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

DOGMATISM : The death of dogma is the birth of reality. (Immanuel Kant: German philosopher whose views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, 1724-1804)

DOGMATISM : The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. (William Osler: Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1887)

DOGMATISM : When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

DOGS : Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Eloisa James: U.S. professor of English literature [pen name of Mary Bly], Born 1962)

DOGS : Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Mary Bly: U.S. author and tenured professor at Fordham University whose novels are published in 30 countries, Born 1962)

DOGS : Dogs have masters; cats have staff. (Unknown Source: )

DOGS : Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

DOGS : Keep in mind . . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. (Unknown Source: )

DOGS : The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience. (Jeffrey M. Masoon: U.S author, Born, 1941)

DOUBLE-SIDEDNESS : Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

DOUBT : Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. (Tehyl Hsieh: Chinese patriot, lecturer, and writer, 1884-1972)

DOUBT : Doubt everything. Find your own light. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

DOUBT : Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. (Frances R. Havergal: English religious poet and hymnwriter.1836-1879)

DOUBT : Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

DOUBT : Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Unknown Source: )

DOUBT : Doubt is the father of invention. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

DOUBT : Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

DOUBT : Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. (Suzy Kassem: U.S. writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin, Born 1975)

DOUBT : Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

DOUBT : Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. (Lillian Smith: U.S. writer and social critic of the Southern United States, 1897-1066)

DOUBT : Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

DOUBT : If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

DOUBT : If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

DOUBT : Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938)

DOUBT : Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DOUBT : Philosophy is doubt. (: )

DOUBT : The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

DOUBT : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

DOUBT : There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

DOUBT : To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Stanislaw Leszczy: King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine, and Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 1677-1776)

DOUBT : To end with certainty, we must begin with doubting. (St. Stanislaus: Polish, catholic bishop, 1030-1079)

DOUBT : Unless you have the courage to doubt, you will never come to know the truth. (Unknown Source: )

DOUBT : We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

DOUBT : We must believe before we can doubt, and doubt before we can deny. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

DOUBT : When you are bombarded with lies, repeatedly, the purpose of the lie is not really to get you to believe the lie. It's to persuade you to doubt everything. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

DOUBT : With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

DOUBTS : A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. (William Wrigley: U.S. chewing gum industrialist who, in 1891, founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company .)

DOUBTS : Doubts are more cruel than the worst truths. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

DOUBTS : Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

DRAMA : A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

DRAMA : Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Thornton Wilder: U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

DRAWBACKS : Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett: English author-novelist, 1867-1931)

DRAWBACKS : Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

DRAWING : Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

DREAD : There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred Hitchcock: British film director and producer who is considered one of cinema's most influential figures, often called 'The Master of Suspense', 1899-1980)

DREAMS : A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943)

DREAMS : A goal is a dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

DREAMS : All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944)

DREAMS : All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney: U.S. entrepreneur, animator, voice actor, and film producer who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations, 1901-1966)

DREAMS : Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world. (Unknown Source: )

DREAMS : Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. (Farrah Gray: U.S. businessman and author, Born 1984)

DREAMS : Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. (Suzy Kassem: U.S. writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin, Born 1975)

DREAMS : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. (William C. Dement: Professor of psychiatry, Born 1928)

DREAMS : Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

DREAMS : Dreams heed no borders and need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time. (Gulzar: )

DREAMS : Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them. (Arnold Schwarzenegger: Austrian-American actor, businessman, and former politician who served as the 38th governor of California, Born 1987)

DREAMS : Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (L. J. Suenens: Belgian Catholic Cardinal(, 1904-1996)

DREAMS : Happy are those who dream dreams and who are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

DREAMS : He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

DREAMS : Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes: U.S. poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, 1902-1967)

DREAMS : Hope is a waking dream. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

DREAMS : Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality. (L. J. Suenens: Belgian Catholic Cardinal(, 1904-1996)

DREAMS : I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

DREAMS : I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. (Estee Lauder: U.S. business woman and cosmetics pioneer)

DREAMS : Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. (Eugene Ionesco: Romanian-French playwright and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre, 1909-1994)

DREAMS : If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up. (Unknown Source: )

DREAMS : If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

DREAMS : If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. (J. M. Power: British author)

DREAMS : In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities (Janos Arany: Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist, known as the"Shakespeare of Ballads, 1817-1882)

DREAMS : In dreams begins responsibility. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

DREAMS : It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

DREAMS : Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)

DREAMS : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

DREAMS : The future begins to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

DREAMS : The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. (Vic Braden: U.S. tennis player, instructor and television broadcaster for the sport, 1929-2014)

DREAMS : The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. (Harry Kemp: U.S. poet and prose writer, 1883-1960)

DREAMS : There is nothing like a dream to create the future. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

DREAMS : Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (Edgar A. Poe: U.S. writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, 1809-1849)

DREAMS : Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

DREAMS : Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

DREAMS : Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)

DREAMS : We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward; they're called dreams. (Jeremy Irons: English actor and activist, Born 1948)

DREAMS : What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986)

DREAMS : When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933)

DREAMS : When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. (Libby Houston: English poet, botanist, research associate at the University of Bristol, and rock climber, Born 1941)

DREAMS : You’re not old until your dreams become regrets. (John Barrymore: U.S. actor on stage, screen, and radio (1882-1942)

DRIVING (U.S.A.) : American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

DRUGGERY : The problem with life is that it's so daily. (Rich Mullins: U.S. Christian music singer and songwriter best known for his worship songs, 1955-1997)

DULLARD : A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. (Bert L. Taylor: U.S. columnist, humorist, poet, and author, 1866-1921)

DUTY : The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

DYING : A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

DYING : Birthing is hard and dying is mean / So get yourself a little loving in between. (Langston Hughes: U.S. poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, 1902-1967)

DYING : Body and mind . . . do not always agree to die together. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

DYING : Fear of death is worse than dying. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

DYING : It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. (Thomas Horder: English physician recognized as a leading clinician and diagnostician of his day, 1871-1955)

DYING : Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. (Christian F. Gellert: German poet, 1715-1769)

DYING : On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do. (Unknown Source: )

DYING : Prolong human life only when you can shorten its miseries. (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

DYING : You never feel so alive as when you are close to death. (Unknown Source: )