Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

Norman Douglas

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• The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Parents
  • Path
  • Successful

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive

• There is a supply for every demand.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Demand
  • Every
  • Supply

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Space

• Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Man

• We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Black

• I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)

  

  Lawrence Durrell

• Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Work
  • Funny

• Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Job
  • Baseball

• I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Different
  • Culture

• There is no truth without the form of truth, namely justice.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Truth
  • Justice

• There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Yoga
  • Rooms

• With 'Submarin', Richard [Ayoade] gave us a lot of freedom and he really helped us. He's so amazing. It really changed things for me and brought my love for filming and working with people to a completely different level. It really was a wonderful experience.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • Acting
  • Shows

• Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Justice
  • Enough