Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
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• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Sleep
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• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Plan

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Past
  • Alone

• I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
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  • Wish
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• We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Free
  • Value
  • Communication

• There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

  

  Lucio Tan
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  • Wise

• Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Important
  • Engineering

• If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

  

  Cornel Wilde
  • Bad

• The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

  

  Charles Kennedy

• Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

  

  Jessie J

• I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.

  

  Jeff Zucker

• Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Time
  • Talent

• I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides

• They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

  

  John O'Hara
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

  

  Eric Berne
  • Wife
  • Hero

• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  

  Norman Douglas
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