This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.
It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.
I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.
And you each gentle animal
In confidence may bind,
And make them follow at your call,
If you are always kind.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.
As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves.
Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.
People don't want to read about my work with the homeless or the time and money I pour into animal rescue and organizations that fight poaching.
You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
My mom, my dad, my two brothers - we're all animal lovers. I think we love animals more than most people.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
I don't really get mad. But if I see a helpless animal being treated cruelly I will transform into the Incredible Hulk.
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
I think it's been fun to show that Bryan and I share a Honda Fit, and we're huge environmentalists, and we're big activists for animal rights.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.
Our reputation as a nation of animal lovers means we can make a strong case for dogs as pets rather than as food.
The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.
As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.
I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
I hid my weight pretty well but I wasn't fine, I was super unhappy, miserable and I was working out like an animal with no results.
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
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