C. H. Douglas Quotes

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

I like a woman with priorities.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

The secret of happiness is curiosity

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.

It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

Isn't it about time you fought back?

I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

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

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.