I. D. Douglas Quotes

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it.

Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce.

Your word is your bond.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

There is always the need to carry on.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Americans never quit.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.