Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dallas Willard

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

Dallas Willard

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

Daron Malakian

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

Dave Matthews

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Dave Eggers

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

David Lee Roth

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

David Levithan

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

David Levithan

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

David Levithan

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

David Letterman

In Hollywood, Oscar is king

Dalai Lama

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

Dalai Lama

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Dalai Lama

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Dalai Lama

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dodie Smith

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

Dolly Parton

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Dinesh D'Souza

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Diogenes

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

Diogenes

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed .

Dick Gephardt

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

Dick Gregory

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are.

Debbie Reynolds

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.

Debbie Harry

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Debbie Macomber

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Daymond John

Product is always king.

Andie MacDowell

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.