Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Norman Douglas

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• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Care
  • Body
  • More

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Wonderful
  • Anything
  • Closely

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Up
  • Never
  • Body

• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Wonderful

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Language
  • Body
  • Acting

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Nothing
  • Legislative

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  

  Ovid
  • Water
  • Body
  • How

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Forever
  • Struggle
  • Body

• When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Daughter

• As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Gold
  • Golden
  • Golden Rule

• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Body
  • Wonderful
  • Reverence