Schultes Quotes & Sayings

If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest. — Lord Chesterfield

Schultes was a naive photographer. For him a beautiful image was one of something beautiful. — Wade Davis

I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home. — Mary Stott

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. — Richard Evans Schultes

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. — Bertrand Russell

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves. — Richard Evans Schultes

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use. — Richard Evans Schultes

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come. — Jeff Kinney

I was once, I am, and I will always be my children's father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seek
reconciliation. As to the institutions that have supported the effort to destroy the fact, I pray that: Lady Justice will seek the truth rather than excuse it; and that she will extol the American family rather than destroy it. — H. Kirk Rainer

Did I promise you too much? — Kai Meyer

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not. — Richard Evans Schultes

She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her two selves, coming together with a strange kind of vibration. It's wasn't disharmony, exactly. — Laini Taylor

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs — Robin Williams

In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists. — Tom Cole

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff. — Sam Trammell