I. D. Douglas Quotes

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

You have to think with the heart.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.