I. D. Douglas Quotes

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Keep believing in brighter days, finding ways for your dreams and wishes to come true. Giving you hope that is as certain as the sun, giving you strength of serenity as your guide.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. It was awesome she was backing me up and defending me.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.

Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.