William O. Douglas Quotes

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

William O. Douglas

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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

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• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  

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• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

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• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

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• The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

  

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• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

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• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

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• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

  

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• A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

  

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• I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

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• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  

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• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

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• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

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• The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

  

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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

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• That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

  

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• I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

  

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• Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Exercise
  • Healthy
  • Form