Top 1200 Animal Lover Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

I'm a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: 'Goonies,' 'E.T.,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Wars.'

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

I'm an ice cream lover, but anytime it's show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn't good for vocalists.

India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

When it comes to being a good lover, a guy has to ask a girl what she wants and be willing to give it to her.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.