William O. Douglas Quotes

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

William O. Douglas

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• When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Money
  • America
  • Wall

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Kings

• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Community
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Power
  • Aphrodisiac

• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
  • Know
  • Kind

• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • People
  • World
  • College

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

  

  John Hawley
  • Anniversary

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Reading

• Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

  

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Prayer

• I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Laughter
  • Found
  • Acceptance

• This government of yours does not please me, and I cannot trust it; you must change it and give me a pledge that you will observe everything you promised; otherwise you will soon realize that I do not want to live this way; and I will not ...my friend ...my enemy.

  

  Cesare Borgia
  • Change
  • Government
  • Trust

• Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Acceptance
  • Journalism