James Douglas Quotes

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
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  • Birth: June 21, 1951

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Joel Kinnaman

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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

John D. Long

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I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.

Jeff Bridges

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It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

Srikumar Rao

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I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Robbie Williams

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I didn't know how to be a father.

Rohan Marley

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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

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As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Russell M. Nelson

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Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We're desperate for instant, visible, measurable ways of knowing God, instead of trusting that it's complicated and a mystery.

Mike Yaconelli

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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Dick Cavett

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I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

David Thewlis

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