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

• He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Famous
  • Prince

• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  

  Lynn Barber

• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Built
  • Distress
  • Ghosts

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Justice
  • Enough