Quotes About Animal

When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence of physics.

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

Yes, she felt a perfect animal inside her. The thought of one day setting this animal loose disgusted her. Perhaps for fear of lack of aesthetic. Or dreading a revelation… No, no, she repeated, you mustn't be afraid to create.

Not having been born an animal is one of my secret nostalgias.

O que seria então aquela sensação de força contida, pronta para rebentar em violência, aquela sede de empregá-la de olhos fechados, inteira, com a segurança irrefletida de uma fera? Não era no mal apenas que alguém podia respirar sem medo, aceitando o ar e os pulmões? Nem o prazer me daria tanto prazer quanto o mal, pensava ela surpreendida. Sentia dentro de si um animal perfeito, cheio de inconsequências, de egoísmo e vitalidade.

En definitiva, en esa búsqueda del placer está resumida la vida animal. La vida humana es más compleja: se resume en la busca del placer, en su temor, y sobre todo en la insatisfacción de los intervalos.

Animal life boils down to this pursuit of pleasure after all. Human life is more complex: it boils down to the pursuit of pleasure, to fear of it, and above all to the dissatisfaction of the time in between.

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Do you know Camille Desmoulins?" he asked. "Have you seen him? He's one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous than a paper knife." He shook his head wonderingly. "Where do they come from, these people? They're virgins. They've never been to war. They've never been on the hunting field. They've never killed an animal, let alone a man. But they're such enthusiasts for murder.

Una dieta que consista principalmente en alimentos derivados de animales, como carne, leche y otros productos lácteos, genera grandes cantidades de proteína defectuosa o basura.

Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.

I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.

As Jay Griffiths observes in her book Wild, René Descartes and the rationalists of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cultivated "a hatred of 'enthusiasm,' for its emotional, wild surges of knowing were too natural, too bodily, too animal. Rationalism demanded superiority to, and separation from, nature and nature's ways of knowing.

Humph. You have a spirit cougar

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.