Valter Longo Quotes & Sayings

I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things — Tony Benn

Just a plain hobbit you look,' said Bilbo. 'But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck to you! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt ... they work together. — Russell Banks

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him, simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative. — A.J. Liebling

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered
this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions ... — Maria Montessori

Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough. — Gale Harold

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it! — Angela Carter

It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. — Alfred North Whitehead

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. — Shirley Jackson

It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it. — Ian Gregoire