Edward Carpenter Quotes
To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.Edward Carpenter
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
Rachel McAdams -
Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
Gabriele D'Annunzio -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
Sally Schneider -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
Vanessa Marcil -
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis -
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
Randeep Hooda
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
Malorie Blackman -
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
Oscar Isaac -
I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
M. J. Rose -
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Garry Trudeau -
People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
Omari Hardwick -
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
A. S. Byatt
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.
Mark Cuban -
So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.
Ray Bradbury -
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
John Gregory Dunne -
I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.
Auberon Waugh -
To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
Edward Carpenter