Authors starting with D
Daisaku Ikeda – 34 Quotes
34 Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda No one should be left to suffer alone. – Daisaku Ikeda The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda With love and patience, nothing is impossible. – Daisaku Ikeda When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. – Read more…

Dalai Lama – 40 Quotes
40 Quotes by Dalai Lama Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain. – Dalai Lama It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in Read more…

Dale Carnegie – 30 Quotes
30 Quotes by Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. – Dale Carnegie You never achieve Read more…
Danica McKellar – 31 Quotes
31 Quotes by Danica McKellar I exercise at home – light cardio and yoga. – Danica McKellar I played Winnie Cooper on ‘The Wonder Years’ from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. – Danica McKellar Believe it or not, lots of Read more…
Daniel Craig – 25 Quotes
25 Quotes by Daniel Craig The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could’ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I Read more…
Daniel Day-Lewis – 14 Quotes
14 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis I’d always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. – Daniel Day-Lewis It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. – Daniel Day-Lewis I’m not keen on history being tampered with… to any extent. – Daniel Day-Lewis I Read more…
Daniel Radcliffe – 35 Quotes
35 Quotes by Daniel Radcliffe I have no idea how much money I’ve got. – Daniel Radcliffe Religion leaves no room for human complexity. – Daniel Radcliffe I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car. – Daniel Radcliffe I love coming home to Read more…
Danny Boyle – 24 Quotes
24 Quotes by Danny Boyle I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. – Danny Boyle My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher’s mum – she was a dinner lady at our local Read more…
Dave Barry – 37 Quotes
37 Quotes by Dave Barry Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. – Dave Barry Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. – Dave Barry What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. – Dave Barry Skiing combines outdoor fun Read more…

David Attenborough – 28 Quotes
28 Quotes by David Attenborough Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. – David Attenborough Dealing with global warming doesn’t mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel Read more…
David Bowie – 24 Quotes
24 Quotes by David Bowie I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio Read more…
David Byrne – 40 Quotes
40 Quotes by David Byrne We don’t make music – it makes us. – David Byrne Architecture theory is very interesting. – David Byrne I don’t like begging money from producers. – David Byrne I found music to be the therapy of choice. – David Byrne Real beauty Read more…
David Duchovny – 36 Quotes
36 Quotes by David Duchovny I drive an electric car. – David Duchovny I’m turning into a stricter dad. – David Duchovny I don’t make decisions based on money. – David Duchovny I think Polanski’s an amazing director. – David Duchovny I think patience is a skill and Read more…
David Herbert Lawrence – 51 Quotes
51 Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence Men! The only animal in the world to fear. – David Herbert Lawrence God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. – David Herbert Lawrence Money is our madness, our vast collective Read more…
David Hume – 25 Quotes
25 Quotes by David Hume Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is Read more…
David Suzuki – 29 Quotes
29 Quotes by David Suzuki We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options. – David Suzuki We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit. – David Suzuki Education has Read more…
Dee Dee Myers – 37 Quotes
37 Quotes by Dee Dee Myers If people believe you’re on their side, they will trust your decisions. – Dee Dee Myers Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. – Dee Dee Myers The exposed nature of life in the public Read more…

Deepak Chopra – 30 Quotes
30 Quotes by Deepak Chopra Victims always feel alone and helpless. – Deepak Chopra Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone. – Deepak Chopra Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the Read more…
Demetri Martin – 28 Quotes
28 Quotes by Demetri Martin I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you Read more…
Denis Diderot – 26 Quotes
26 Quotes by Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. – Denis Diderot When superstition is allowed to perform the task of Read more…
Denis Waitley – 37 Quotes
37 Quotes by Denis Waitley You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. – Denis Waitley Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. – Denis Waitley Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. – Denis Waitley Personal Read more…
Dennis Prager – 28 Quotes
28 Quotes by Dennis Prager Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Read more…
Denzel Washington – 16 Quotes
16 Quotes by Denzel Washington Growing up I didn’t watch movies. – Denzel Washington If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go. – Denzel Washington I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies. – Denzel Washington I never really had the classic struggle. I Read more…

Desmond Tutu – 35 Quotes
35 Quotes by Desmond Tutu All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. – Desmond Tutu God’s love is too great to be confined to any Read more…
Diablo Cody – 26 Quotes
26 Quotes by Diablo Cody I wrote a screenplay for a ‘Sweet Valley High’ adaptation, and it’s really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie. – Diablo Cody I absolutely relate to being alone Read more…
Donald Trump – 36 Quotes
36 Quotes by Donald Trump We need a great president. – Donald Trump Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump It’s always good to be underestimated. – Donald Trump You have to think anyway, so why not think big? – Donald Trump Well, real estate is always Read more…
Doris Lessing – 32 Quotes
32 Quotes by Doris Lessing My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing When there’s a war, people get married. – Doris Lessing All my friends’ mothers were appalling women. – Doris Lessing Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. Read more…
Doug Coupland – 49 Quotes
49 Quotes by Doug Coupland Technology favors horrible people. – Doug Coupland Christmas makes everything twice as sad. – Doug Coupland People will always choose more money over more sex. – Doug Coupland Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. – Doug Coupland The future Read more…
Drew Barrymore – 33 Quotes
33 Quotes by Drew Barrymore I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic. – Drew Barrymore Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Read more…
Dwight D. Eisenhower – 47 Quotes
47 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower War settles nothing. – Dwight D. Read more…
Princess Diana – 14 Quotes
14 Quotes by Princess Diana There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. – Princess Diana I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work. – Princess Diana Read more…
Confidence Quotes by Dr. Benjamin Spock
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do