Longos Hours Quotes

#1. The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.

Samuel Johnson

#2. We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Ilka Chase

#4. Did she just say "wife?

Corinne Michaels

#5. Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Richard Bach

#6. Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn't waste the milk.

Alice Munro

#7. In my spare time I like to sleep.

Jacob Lusk

#8. If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

#9. So you all remember: just because you're small, doesn't mean you got no power.

Neil Gaiman

#10. It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Gerald F. Lieberman

#11. The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.

Gunduz Vassaf

#12. Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Ingrid Newkirk

#13. The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

John D. Rockefeller

#14. What we have here is good and if you'd get over your thoughts that it isn't gonna last, you'd realise how much better it's gonna get if you'd just relax.

Kristen Ashley

#15. The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson