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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• 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

• 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

• It was the eyes that did it.  timid giggle  I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Eyes

• At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People

• Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • Done

• You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Fall

• Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

  

  T. Boone Pickens

• Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

  

  Gail Honeyman

• The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Morning

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

  

  Ingrid Newkirk