Quotes About Animal

No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

While an uncritical animal may be eliminated altogether with its dogmatically held hypotheses, we may formulate our hypotheses, and criticize them. Let our conjectures, our theories die in our stead!

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

In what way is a lobster more ridiculous than a dog, a cat, a gazelle, a lion, or any other animal you take for a walk? I'm fond of lobsters. They're peaceful, serious, know the secrets of the deep, don't bark, and don't invade our privacy like dogs.

The Call of the Wild

Rohan gave her a coaxing nod toward the food like a man trying to get a wounded wild animal to eat. Was that what she had become after her ordeal? At home on the windy moors, alone with the falcons and the wild ponies, she had never been all that tame to start with.

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as unfavorable, and even when the ability to prevail is low.

O dromedário tem o olho do cu mais elegante de todos os animais que conheço, nada tem que ver com a carne rosada e berrante do recto que se vê num cavalo. E produz a mais delicada bosta - uma forma elíptica, muito perfeita, que depressa endurece ao sol. a forma e a textura de uma noz-pecã.

si bien el hombre ama a su prójimo, es un animal que también ama el dinero y esta tendencia interfiere muchas veces con su benevolencia

soon you could see his speed and his strength for yourself. Never could any wild animal, in the profound depths of the forest, escape, once he pursued. He was very clever at tracking. But now he is in bad times. His master, far from his country, has perished, and the women are careless, and do not look after him; 320 and serving men, when their masters are no longer about, to make them work, are no longer willing to do their rightful duties.

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.

It bore her no malice, this animal, it was indifferent to her misery. It would move as a cage panther might: because it is awake, out of boredom, for the sake of movement itself, or for no reason at all, and with no awareness.

You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep. I only did it once. Once was weird enough, thank you.

What?" "She won't bite or scratch or she'll vomit. She's a vegetarian." Oh boy. "But when she's in beast form . . ." He shook his head. "She eats grass. Don't ask.

When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

Love is a dog rolling on a dead fish.

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?