Douglas Horton Quotes
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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All wishes are not idle, nor in vain fulfilment we devise - for pain is pain, not for itself to be desired, but ill; or else to strive or to subdue the will alike were graceless; and of Evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is.
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Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
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Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.
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I had fresh confirmation that acting contrary to present outward interest, from a motive of Divine love and in regard to truth and righteousness, and thereby incurring the resentments of people, opens the way to a treasure better than silver, and to a friendship exceeding the friendship of men.
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Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.
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It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
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If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
