Categories Starting with “D”

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.”

— Anton Chekhov

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

— Mother Teresa

“The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.”

— Steve Jobs

“I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.”

— Donald Trump

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”

— Albert Camus

“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”

— Albert Camus

“I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”

— Lao Tzu

“It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.”

— Noam Chomsky

“I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

— Jane Austen