I. D. Douglas Quotes

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

Day blame ornery youngins.

The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.

Just how good are you?”He kissed her. “I’ll let you be the judge of that.

It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.

The moon shines like a freshly unwrapped cheese ball at the holidays.”-William Harrison in Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

You only truly believe that which moves you to action.

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

No, no - I think about thinking

The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way.

Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner.”“And?”“And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume.”“And after?”“Diarrhea, of course.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?-Richard

I’d learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster…

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

But the book! The siren song of the book!

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

Touch Me, but not with your hands.

Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime fans.

The glory of the New Covenant Temple is the glory of Christ Himself – a spiritual glory that is only obscured by outward, external, typical, ceremonial, and fleshly elements.

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

Christ who is your life, ' (Col 3:4): This identification reflects the relentless Christological focus of Colossians.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

If you are not dead, then there is hope. get up and go conquer the world.

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.