Depopulating Animals Quotes & Sayings

One does not miss what one has never had. — Jean Webster

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. — Paul J. Meyer

Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the women on the other side parading my beauty of which I was so proud? As I stood there holding my JUDGE MEAT NOT WOMEN picket sign, I recalled all the people who had said to me throughout my life, "You've got such a pretty face." But they never finished the thought. The whole phrase is "You've got such a pretty face, too bad you're fat." But what if I weren't fat? Would I still have attacked this "Meat Parade" so fiercely? The truth is, my fat has informed my politics. And while I'd like to think I would have been just as ardent in my opposition to the objectification of women had I been thin, I'll never know for sure. — Camryn Manheim

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — Edward O. Wilson

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations. — Robin Williams

Each year, we rent a house at the edge of the sea and drive there in the first of the summer - with the dog and cat, the children, and the cook - arriving at a strange place a little before dark. The journey to the sea has its ceremonious excitements, it has gone on for so many years now, and there is the sense that we are, as in our dreams we have always known ourselves to be, migrants and wanderers - travelers, at least, with a traveler's acuteness of feeling." --from ""The Seaside Houses — John Cheever

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again — Sharon Salzberg

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back. — Patti LaBelle

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

See the opportunity in the misstep. — Cate Blanchett

Arab League summits often served as forums for letting off steam or ironing out differences. At times the way this took place was the stuff of caricature. — Yevgeny Primakov