Quotes Da-Di "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth of not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." -- H.H. Dalai Lama "I'm not here to convert people, I think it's better to keep your own tradition . . . Everybody has the potential to make a contribution to human development." -- H. H. Dalai Lama "Get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder." -- Richard Daley "Always look out for Number One, and be careful not to step in Number Two." -- Rodney Dangerfield "If I had to live my life again, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use." -- Charles Darwin "Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people." -- Professor Thomas Davidson "People say, what is the sense of our small effort. They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do." -- Dorothy Day "Six months before my last re-election, I signed a bill into law that made Vermont the first state in America to guarantee equal rights to every person under the law. ... That bill was called the Civil Unions Bill. And it said that marriage is between a man and a woman, but same-sex couples are entitled to the exact same legal rights as I have -- hospital visitation, insurance and inheritance rights. ... This bill was at about 40 percent in the polls when I signed it ... 60% were against it, six months before the election. I never got a chance to ask myself whether signing it was a good idea or not because I knew that if I were willing to sell out the rights of a whole group of human beings because it might be politically inconvenient for a future office I might run for, then I had wasted my time in public service." -- Howard Dean "A little kindness from person to perons is better than a vast love for all humankind." -- Richard Dehmel "Ours." -- Vine Deloria, Jr. when asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came. "Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." -- Vine Deloria Jr. "Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever." -- Rick DeMarinis "For many years, it was believed that most injuries occur in the home. This is no longer true. Evidence from a recent study suggests that injuries are most likely to occur at social gatherings, right after somebody hollers, "Hey, everybody, watch this!" -- Ron Dentinger "They too were storming heaven; do you think they fought in vain, That because they lost a battle, they would not rise again, That the man with the leaflet, the woman with the gun, Did not have a daughter, and did not have a son?" -- Hugo Dewar "Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." -- Thomas Dewar "We are what we think All that we are arises with our thought With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. We are what we think All that we are arises with our thought With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable." -- The Dhammapada "Not knowing then the dawn will come, I open every door." -- Emily Dickinson "I'll tell you how the Sun rose- A Ribbon at a time-" -- Emily Dickinson "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." - Gordon R. Dickson "When writing of women, the pen should be dipped in a rainbow." -- Denis Diderot "I'm not an angry girl, but it seems like I've got everyone fooled, everytime I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear." -- Ani DiFranco "the music industry mafia is pimping girl power sniping off their sharpshooter singles from their styrofoam towers." -- Ani diFranco "Some people might say, 'Who would want to be 90?' And I say, 'Anyone who is 89.'" -- Phyllis Diller Index