I. D. Douglas Quotes
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.
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.
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.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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.
You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.
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.
The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.
I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
