Categories Starting with “D”

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

— William Shakespeare

“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”

— Steve Jobs

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”

— William Shakespeare

“Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.”

— Noam Chomsky

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

— William Shakespeare

“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

— Michelangelo

“What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche