William O. Douglas Quotes

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

William O. Douglas

• Nature
• Adventure
• Independence
• Excitement

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• All of us grow.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Grow
  • U.S.

• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Husband
  • Right
  • Cooking

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

  

  Kellan Lutz

• I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Thinking
  • Going
  • Coming

• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • Opportunity

• In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Pleasure

• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Nature
  • Adventure
  • Independence