Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

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• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Pain

• To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Mindset

• I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Tour
  • Her

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Wanted

• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Men
  • Live
  • Government

• It is important for a father who feels pushed away to say, in effect, 'When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father,' or 'I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks.' Women cannot hear what men do not say. – page 105.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

  

  Larry Wall

• Ignobly vain, and impotently great.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Great

• The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Live
  • Society

• And I stood arrow straightUnencumbered by the weightOf all these hustlers and their schemes.I stood proud, I stood tallHigh above it all.I still believed in my dreams.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Proud

• This, I feel, is missing a vital point: that the sceptic is often a totally honest person who, for perfectly good, sound reasons, simply cannot see a case for belief. In fact many - like Courty Bryan - admit that they would like to be convinced, but find it impossible.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Good
  • Missing

• What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Present

• Throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • History
  • Bodies
  • Painted

• 'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Single

• To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • High

• In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk