Douglas Horton Quotes

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Douglas Horton

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• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Myself

• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Small
  • Understand
  • Fast

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Past
  • Late
  • Rome

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • End
  • Patience

• The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Change
  • Run

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • You
  • First
  • Prepare

• Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Natural
  • Cosmetics
  • Provinces

• 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Me
  • First

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Evil

• By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wonder
  • Fame
  • Comets

• There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Black
  • Church

• I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

  

  Andy Richter
  • Good
  • Funny

• Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Vietnam
  • Nixon
  • Combat

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

  

  Douglas Horton