Animal Quotes
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There is no animal lazier than a cat.
Evelyn E. Smith
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He Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.
Carrie Brownstein
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Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open an animal and find a new species. Where did it come from? What effect does it have on its host? What is its next host? They don't know and they don't have time to find out, because there are too many other species waiting to be discovered and described.
Carl Zimmer
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
Seneca the Younger
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There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.
John Ruskin
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You handle animals. You deal with people.
Red Auerbach
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
Terence McKenna
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An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
Mother Teresa
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons
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I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
Bill Etherington
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
Jostein Gaarder
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.
Geraldine James
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
Miriam Makeba
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Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.
Molly Ringwald
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The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
John Ruskin
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
Thomas Keating
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin
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...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.
George Radda