Pampered Pets Quotes & Sayings

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead. — Katherine L. Walker

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. — Matt Stone

Harry couldn't sleep. He shivered and turned over, trying — J.K. Rowling

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier

The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed by spreading boils and hideous discolorations of the skin. So excruciating is the pain that death, when it comes, is a mercy.
-The Book of the Eternal Rose — Fiona Paul

I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before? — Hilary Mantel

Conscientiousness comprises industriousness, self-control, stick-to-itiveness, and a desire for order. — Daniel J. Levitin

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly. — Alain De Botton

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands. — Fanny Fern

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them. — Norman Lear

This kind of telescopic compassion is not an uncommon phenomenon, and has a close relative in the kindness one sees displayed toward pampered urban household pets, even as, a stones throw away, homeless people sleep on benches. — Sally Mann

Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought. — Mari Sandoz