Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Colby

Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits

Zhou Min

Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.

Erich Fromm

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Matt Prescott

Our real goal here is that the shareholders care about animal rights and that the company moves toward that goal.

Cherie Owen

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

Todd Nims

People have been known to contract balis from simply feeding raccoons in their backyards. So obviously, your chances go way up if the animal is living with you.

David Attenborough

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

Phil Coleman

People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see those kind of animals at the zoo. It's what they are familiar with.

Deborah Franklin

People look at animal control officers as being big bad people. To me this shows them taking care of what people should be taking care of with their pets - spaying and neutering that is. It shows they have white hats instead of black hats.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

P. J. Harvey

Just for six weeks, one time. A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

John Lindh

It is comforting to know that you have found a lawyer.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Nicole Wolff

I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I've been shooting well in practice, but I just rush my shots when I get into the game. Obviously I haven't been scoring much. I think I was just more relaxed.

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Brian Harris

May you, my friend, find God sends comforting warmth, to speed you back to your rekindled and welcoming hearth.

David Nicholls

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Francesca Annis

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Nicholas Sparks

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Julian Barnes

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

William James

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.