I. D. Douglas Quotes

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.