#dec

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#aspect #central #control #culture #decided

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#another #bank #blood #child #cord

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. ↗

— Mos Def

#began #being #declaring #def #family

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#anything #art #birth #communication #comparison

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #europe #france #i #myself

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#decline #fault #may #their #unions

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#decisions #eat #food #going #i

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty