Michael Pollan Second Nature Quotes & Sayings

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose. — Michael Musto

People who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life, - simply a confession of failure. — Oscar Wilde

All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others. — Emo Philips

Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child. — William Shakespeare

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms. — Richard Henry Lee

We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car - — Seanan McGuire

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. — Albert Camus

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. — George Orwell

Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last. — Charles De Gaulle