I. D. Douglas Quotes
My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.
I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and tell me if it isn't so.
Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366)
Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.
We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
some people want just, to sit back and watch the world burn.
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
In the beginning of a movie, they don't tell you what's going to happen. You just have to wait and go on the adventure with them
nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance.
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea
...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.
There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.
Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
You know the people, " said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.
If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary.
Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home.
Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.
It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.
They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.
Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.
if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks
A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.
He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.
It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.
The whole universe wants to contribute toyou. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire—but you don’t ask.
True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.
When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.
You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.
When you tap into the energy of possibility, there is always something greater than potential can give you.
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.