Macaques Quotes & Sayings

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness. — C.S. Harris

The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen hundred miles, the Himalaya- the alaya (abode, or home) of hima (snow).Hibiscus, frangipani, bougainvillea: seen under snow peaks, these tropical blossoms become the flowers of heroic landscapes. Macaques scamper in green meadow, and a turquoise roller spins in a golden light. Drongos, rollers, barbets, and white Eqyptian vulture are the common birds, and all have close relatives in East Africa. — Peter Matthiessen

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone. — Ovid

If you never leave me, I won't eat your stuff. - Belle, Dog Only Knows — Terry Kaye

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us... — Joseph Conrad

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class. — Augusten Burroughs

The spirit within leads only to joy, as it inspires me to see the love in everyone and the possibility of miracles that lie inherent in all things. The universe itself is the handwriting of God, as He constantly creates and re-creates the perfection that He is. Within that perfection I have my true being, and within my true being I am happy and at peace. — Marianne Williamson

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on. — Tracy Allen

In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge. — Frans De Waal

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense. — Connie Willis