I. D. Douglas Quotes

Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Believe, don’t fear, believe.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.