Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

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• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  

  Jack Germond
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Never
  • See
  • Generation

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Save
  • Consent

• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Always
  • Ready

• When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

  

  David Foster
  • Up
  • Player

• I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Ability

• The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Fear
  • Service
  • Politics

• It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Work
  • Marriage

• You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Change
  • Point
  • Realize

• Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

  

  Ella Baker
  • World
  • May
  • Giving

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
  • False
  • Eloquence

• For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Expensive
  • Rebuilding
  • Acrimonious

• Having been frequently ignored or abandoned leaves them clinging and needy, even with the people who have abused them. Having been chronically beaten, molested, and otherwise mistreated, they cannot help but define themselves as defective and worthless. They come by their self-loathing, sense of defectiveness, and worthlessness honestly. Was it any surprise that they didn’t trust anyone? Finally, the combination of feeling fundamentally despicable and overreacting to slight frustrations makes it difficult for them to make friends.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Frustrations
  • Defectiveness

• Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.

  

  Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Fire

• I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Tired

• There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Deserve
  • Creatures
  • Refuge