Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.Norman Douglas
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
Carlos Mesa -
I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
Mandy Patinkin -
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips -
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. Howe
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni -
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
W. Bruce Cameron -
The Candy Man can
Leslie Bricusse -
Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
Albert Camus -
Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.
Edward C. Prescott -
Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
Adriana Lima
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin -
Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
John Katzman -
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
Meghan Trainor -
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness
V. Vale Blue Cheer -
We are talking about thousands of innocent lives being lost, about almost inevitable casualties among our own forces... and the alienation of moderate Muslim opinion across the world.
Chris Smith -
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Bill Vaughan
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
C. J. Anderson -
Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine.
Brian D. McLaren -
Give the lady what she wants!
Marshall Field -
You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
James Van Der Beek -
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas