Animal Quotes

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

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

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Man is by nature a political animal.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.