Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Dalai Lama

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

Dolly Parton

I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Dolly Parton

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Dev Anand

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

Desmond Tutu

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Derek Waters

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

Derek Walcott

To change your language you must change your life.

Delmore Schwartz

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

David Beckham

I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.

Dave Thomas

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Dave Sim

You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

David Wong

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

David Whyte

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

David Whyte

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

David O. McKay

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

David McCord

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

David McCord

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

David McCord

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

David Mamet

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

Dash Mihok

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Danny Bonaduce

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

Dag Hammarskjold

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror.

Dag Hammarskjold

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.