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

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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
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
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

Maggie Hassan
- Day
- Doing
- Everyday