Durkan Seattle Quotes

#1. I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

John Brown

#2. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.

Alexandra Burt

#3. It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'

Charles Nelson Reilly

#4. It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

J.D. Salinger

#5. It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Kevin Spacey

#6. He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Nathanael West

#7. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

Ashley Montagu