Ivo H. Daalder
Nato is an organisation that took a holiday from history.
Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
If a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He is not right in the brain.
There are only two days in your life totally out of your hands: one is 'yesterday' - and the other 'tomorrow'
Salvatore Dali
Money is a glory.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Modesty is not exactly my speciality.
Who wants to be of interest must provoke.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I am in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
I'm an exhibitionist. Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
The great shame about today's youth is that one doesn't belong to it any more.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Every morning when I wake up, I experience again that supreme pleasure: of being Salvador Dali.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it's always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Fred Daly
Old dogs for the hard road, puppies for the footpath.
Frank Dana
Money is simply power in cold storage.
Zoe Daniel
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Dante Aleghieri
Follow your own star.
I like to doubt as much as to know.
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
Time vanishes, and man doesn't notice it.
Stick to your way and let the people talk.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, nor beauty from the eternal.
Sad are those souls which lived without blame and without praise.
What else is liberty than the unimpeded translation of will into action?
Some wait for times to change; others grab the times and change them.
The more perfect a thing is, the more sensitive it is to good or bad treatment.
No pain is greater than the memory of one's happiness during a time of misery.
Faith and innocence grow on the tree of childhood; but they don't keep very well.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on a tree. Some vanish and others appear.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Georges-Jacques Danton
After bread, the first need of the people is education.
Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Charles Darwin
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
Unitarianism is a feather bed to catch falling Christians.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
The pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one than that of skill and sport.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.
Peter Daszak
We are doing things every day that make pandemics more likely – we need to understand, this is not just nature. It is nature we are doing this to.
Rita Davenport
Money isn't everything... but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
Robyn Davidson
You are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be. (‘Tracks')
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. (‘Tracks')
Paul Davies
Forever is a long time.
Bette Davis
Old age is no place for sissies.
I am somewhere between 40 and death.
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
David F.Dawes
The Bible teaches how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
Richard Dawkins
It is complete and utter nonsense to say you need religion to be moral.
Religious faith discourages independent thought. It's divisive and it's dangerous.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
I think a case can be made that religion is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Paul Dawson
Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it is also an economic issue making us all poorer.
Doris Day
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
Moshe Dayan
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Play is the highest form of research.
Nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.
James Dean
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
Claude Debussy
Listen to no one's advice except to that of the wind in the trees.
Edgar Dégas
I am glad I didn't find my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.
Eugène Delacroix
The primary job of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
Do all the work you can. That is the complete philosophy to lead a good life.
Mediocre people know an answer for everything and never wonder about anything.
Artists who strive for perfection in everything are those who don't achieve it in anything.
Experience teaches two thing. First is we must correct a great deal, and second that we ought not to correct too much.
Don Delillo
Technology is lust removed from nature. ("White Noise")
Were people this dumb before television? ("White Noise")
Deng Xiao-ping
To get rich is glorious!
When you open the window flies get in.
Keep a cool head, maintain a low profile and never take the lead.
It doesn't matter whether it's a yellow cat or a black cat, as long as it catches mice.
Achieving national unification is the nation's wish – if not unified in 100 years, then unified in 1000 years.
Richard Denniss
Tax is the price we pay to live in a civilised society.
Definitions and data provide a window through which we can view part of the world around us.
Andrew Denton
Talent is a gift, sure, but it's a bugger unwrapping it.
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
The true definition of wealth is being able to buy someone else's time.
Love is that warm spot to the right of fear and the left of desire that we're all searching for.
Why is it that the people with the most faith (fundamentalists) are also the people with the most fear?
René Descartes
I think, so I am - Cogito, ergo sum.
People quarrel because they haven't learned to argue.
Everything which is merely probable is probably wrong.
To solve a difficulty divide it into as many parts as possible.
When insulted, I try to raise my soul so high that the insult cannot reach it.
To know what people really think, watch what they do, rather than what they say.
The surest way to be deceived is by thinking to be more clever than everybody else.
Nothing is more justly distributed than reason. Everyone is convinced to have sufficient of it.
John Dewey
If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our students of their tomorrow.
Nick Diamos
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Robin DiAngelo
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
For me, there is no point in being alive if I'm not growing, and challenging and contributing.
Charles Dickens
Lord, keep my memory green.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and famous preservers of good looks.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Emely Dickinson
Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Denis Diderot
Passions elevate the soul to great things.
If you are going the wrong way you make it worse the faster you go.
Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Marlene Dietrich
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Most women try everything to change a man. But once that's done they don't like him any more.
Men always insist that they love the inner beauty of women. But strangely, they keep staring at something quite different.
E.J.Dijkstra
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Phyllis Diller
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Isak Dinesen
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Diogenes
Who is happy with nothing has everything.
The foundation of each state is the education of its youth.
The best revenge on your enemies is to become better than they are.
He is not the happiest who possesses most, but he who needs the least.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Benjamin Disraeli
Change is constant.
Never apologise, never explain.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Heimito von Doderer
Sometimes you have to withdraw from a person to find him.
In a good conversation the pauses are as important as the words.
Victor Dominello
Death is not the end of life. It is simply the opposite of birth. Life is eternal.
Fedor Dostoevsky
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
The degree of a society's civilisation can be judged by entering its prisons ("House of the Dead")
Keith Douglas
Simplify me when I am dead.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.
(‘The Valley of Fear')
Yadin Dudai
For the human condition, forgetting is at least as important as remembering - sometimes more so.
Gustavo Dudamel
The worst thing about being poor is to be no one. It's not just a material thing. It's knowing you are separated from the rest.
Mikhail Dudan
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
Charles H. Duell (US Office of Patents 1899)
Everything that can be invented has been invented
Michael Duffy
Urban consolidation is like socialism: the ideals are wonderful, the reality awful.
Mike Dukakis
The future is so bright I have to wear shades.
John Foster Dulles
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Our capacity to retaliate must be ... massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
The principle of neutrality ... except under very special circumstances, is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to solve, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
Alexandre Dumas
Happier than happy are those who make others happy.
Business - that's easy to define: it's other people's money.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Isadora Duncan
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Alexis Dupuy
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
Tilla Durieux
Hope is something between wings and a parachute.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The more we plan the more profoundly will chance hit us.
Peter Dutton
The only way you can preserve peace is to prepare for war.
Aziz Dweik
A hungry man is an angry man.
Wayne Dyer
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Henry van Dyke
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Bob Dylan
Chaos is a friend of mine.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Freeman Dyson
We can't really enjoy success unless there's the posssibility of failure.
Designing genomes will be a personal thing, a new art form as creative as painting or sculpture.
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
Domesticated biotechnology, once it gets into everyone's hands, will give us an explosion of diversity of new living creatures.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
The non-living universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organisation that are not yet understood.
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.
Dzerzhinsky (head of secret police under Lenin)
We stand for organised terror... Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution... even if its sword does by chance sometimes fall on the heads of the innocent.