Lawrence G. Lovasik Quotes

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

I've just got face: he looks like a brat. The 'I don't like face.' That's how I see it. And I'm not a brat. Sometimes I'm watching a movie, and you see a character and go, 'I don't like him' - that's me.

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

No one here likes a wet dog.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.