Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Alexandra Fuller

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

Isabella Rossellini

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Elbert Hubbard

Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature

Matthew Arnold

Let the victors, when they come, / When the forts of folly fall, / Find thy body by the wall.

Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

Bob Punter

Scott and Rob (Hummel) realize that if they want to play Big Ten basketball, they can't stay where they are. (Martin) already has a pretty well-proportioned body, but he still has a high school body as opposed to what you see in a Big 10 game from 6-8 players. He could put 20 more pounds on his chest, and he'll be impossible to handle. And I could be really smart.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Miroslaw Pulit

Search dogs pointed to a particular spot, so we brought in extendable cameras ... we were able to see a person's head and started digging, and next to that body we found another one.

Ralph Hodgson

See an old unhappy bull, / Sick in soul and body both.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Sathya Baba

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Joe Ward

Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. There were slashes. There were stabs, ... It looked like she had fought for her life in that room. And lost.

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Jennifer Morgan

My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.

James Bamford

Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.

Sarah Harrison

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

Stephen Kinzer

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Aguri Suzuki

I have made several trips to Britain in the last few months and, as far as the paperwork is concerned, I am clear. But there is little else we can do without Honda's assistance.

Felix Magath

Let's not get too carried away with this loss. The outcome of the title race is still in our hands and we won't let it slip away.

Thomas Doll

Let's not get carried away about this loss, we played well in stretches, we just didn't score when we should have.

Gary Fifield

Last year, she carried us on her back all the way through the tournament. She's that kind of player. She'll take the ball.

Mike Anderson

Momentum. A lot of momentum that I think carried over from game to game.

Justin Cage

My freshman year, we could really depend on three players that kind of carried us. We could screen or do whatever we were asked. Now, we have to try to lead and put some points on the board. It's changed a lot since our freshman year.

Joe Reints

One of our players really stepped up and made some plays. Meghan Fuqua saddled up and carried us with about 10 minutes left.

Malcolm Forbes

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Cherie Blair

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Lindy Ruff

Maybe Jochen needed to be carried off the ice, and then that's a suspension. That's sad, but maybe that's what it is.

Ed Pien

So far, the Chinese who have seen my work tend to see a mix of Eastern and Western cultures.

Richard Boucher

So it's an open question as to whether one will be able to say that they got a fair trial or not, particularly given what we know about the Chinese legal system.

Wen Jiabao

So long as there is still a glimmer of hope, ... the Chinese government will not give up its efforts for peaceful reunification and for a peaceful settlement of the question.

Ben Simpfendorfer

Momentum has been consolidated at quite a high level with strength coming mainly from mainland Chinese demand. This should be sustained through the first quarter of next year.

Tess Gerritsen

Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

Michael Moschen

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

Rose George

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

Lu Houyuan

No one has tasted them. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

Reporters Borders

Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

George Casey

Level 1 is being totally independent, and we know they're not going to be there in large numbers for a while. But they're already getting to level 2, which means they can get into and lead the fight.

Chris Larsen

No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.

Richard Greenfield

One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.

Jim Tracy

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.

John Burns

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

James Macdonald

More and more production is starting to shift into some very large operations.

George Sansoucy

Obviously, they've got to remake themselves; obviously, they've got to make themselves relevant in a more significant way again. Their contribution in print is now not needed in large part.

Tullian Tchividjian

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Beckie Rolbiecki

From just being comfortable to have seen the large crowd. It's the same gymnastics; it's just in a different arena.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Frank Gehry

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

Steve McNamara

We work out of a similar structure but all tinker about with it in different ways.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Wang Guoliang

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Ladell Betts

Hopefully, we can get something similar like we had in the first game, when we had a 1-2 punch,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

Emma Watson

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Audrina Patridge

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Edith Sitwell

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.