Lorax 2012 Once Ler Quotes

#1. The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

Brit Hume

#2. The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do.

She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

Rachel Hauck

#3. If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Archer John Porter Martin

#4. The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Ann Widdecombe

#5. If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Robert Anton Wilson

#6. This house is always going to be quiet now, I should get used to it. Laughter will no longer run rampant through the hallways, decorating each room.

Kimberly Russell

#7. Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.

T. Greenwood

#8. Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

#9. I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Ellen Glasgow

#10. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.

Arthur Goldberg