Quotes of: Wild-animals Keyword

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.

Down There on a Visit

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Eating Animals

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Robert T. Bakker

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Animal Dreams

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Animal Dreams

Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.

Animal Magnetism

Look at the humanity - we're wild animals, even without basic template of consciousness. Shame on us..

Inspiration Per Moment

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

Jitterbug Perfume

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

Shipstar

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Markings

Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist.

The Night Has Teeth

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

The Lathe of Heaven

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Life of Pi

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

Unconfessed

Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs. The wind moves like a wounded animal. The ground must be full of teeth by now.

The Wingless

…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

The Wine-Dark Sea

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Watchers

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Clockwork Angel

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

Sara Gruen