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Quotes
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"No man is an Ireland."
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
"The police aren't here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder."
Richard J. Daley mayor of Chicago
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Robertson Davies
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
Bette Davis
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
Bette Davis (1908-1989) American Actress
"You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else."
Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)
"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally."
Lillian Day
"China is a big country with a lot of Chinese people living there."
Former French President Charles De Gaulle
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Former French President Charles De Gaulle
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Former French President Charles De Gaulle
"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."
Robert De Niro, American motion-picture actor
"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings; they try to hide them."
Robert De Niro, American motion-picture actor
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
Thomas Dewar
"Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness. To hang out a sign saying, `Come right in; there is no one at home' is not the equivalent of hospitality."
John Dewey American philosopher and educator (1859-1952)
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, former NYC mayor
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
Walt Disney
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli, Known as a dandy, a novelist, a brilliant debater and England's first and only Jewish prime minister
"The most dangerous strategy is to try to jump a chasm in two leaps."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The Internet is a great way to get on the Net."
Presidential candidate Bob Dole
"I'd marry her myself, but my wife won't let me."
Actor Kirk Douglas, on his son Michael's new wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
Norman Douglas
"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
William Orville Douglas, American jurist and associate justice US Supreme Court
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Our civilization is still in the middle stage; scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
Theodore Dreiser, US novelist, editor
"You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable."
Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management consultant and educator
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
John Dryden (1631-1700) 1st English poet laureate, dramatist, critic
"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) US comedian
"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand."
Leo Durocher (1906-1991) Baseball player, manager
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
Bob Dylan (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter.
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