Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Norman Douglas

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• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Talk
  • Been
  • Tax

• The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Children
  • Free

• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Race
  • Neither
  • Inferior

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Help
  • Him
  • Allah

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• 'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Doors
  • Cards

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Most
  • Scotland
  • Engaging

• It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Thought

• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Character
  • High
  • Action

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

  

  Sally Field
  • History
  • Small
  • Year

• I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Many

• I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• We are looking at gene therapies to Reverse Atherosclerosis, Regenerate muscles and tissue, Improve cell signaling, Clear misfolded Proteins, Rejuvenate the immune System, Clear Senescent Cells, and Treat Monogenic Diseases.

  

  Liz Parrish

• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • She

• I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Time

• I love candlelit dinners.

  

  Matthew Morrison

• In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Change
  • I Think
  • Direction

• Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Reducing

• How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Communication
  • Left
  • Unspoken