Quotes about cat
cat talking soul
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion. Swami Vivekananda
catholic littles uncomfortable
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. Tony Abbott
cat hey problem
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.' Roy Blount, Jr.
cat home animal
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
catholic firsts university
To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university. Susan Sarandon
cat curious bigs
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
cat curiosity epitaph
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat. Studs Terkel
cat curiosity epitaph
Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph
catholic church week
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being. Sting
cat home sight
I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate. Stevie Smith
cat might faces
See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.
catholic way ghost
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. Stephen Greenblatt
catholic devil haste
Haste is of the Devil. St. Jerome
catholic purity-and-love body
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
catholic moments short-summer
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
catholic devil may
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
catholic doubt favors
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
catching-fire building so-sad
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have. Sonia Braga
cat names profound
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name. T. S. Eliot
cat
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.
catholic literature classicists
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
cat thinking names
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
cat names mind
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
cat thinking doors
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.
cat house want
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
cat matter difficult
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
cat names pie
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.
cat speak
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
cat like-you enough
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
cat voice wow
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess Scott Westerfeld
cat pet pay
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. Scott Adams
cat law jail
Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. Ray Davies