Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Interest
  • Special
  • Taxes

• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Chances
  • Acknowledge
  • Senator

• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Women
  • Tea
  • Foundation

• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Pressure
  • Stress

• If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Lie
  • Jury
  • Courtroom

• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Job
  • Leader
  • Possibility

• I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Laughing
  • Cry

• The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Regions

• We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

  

  Gerda Lerner
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Problem

• There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

  

  Israel Zangwill
  • Age
  • Write
  • Badly

• The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Humans
  • Species

• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Spirit

• The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Weakness
  • Ideals

• Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

  

  Norman Lamm
  • Ideals
  • Notions
  • Stifling

• I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Thinking
  • Comfortable
  • Headshots

• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Ideals
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