Top 1200 Animal Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.

Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.

For years, I have traveled all around the country to promote animal welfare, fighting for policies that will finally eliminate unnecessary animal suffering.

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no means 'the natural way' or 'the human way' of behaving, it is a particular code of behavior which has developed over the years. And these people, the immigrant people, come from a group where different standards of conduct and behavior have developed. What clashes are these two standards of conduct and behavior.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.