Welfarists Quotes & Sayings

It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself. — Jalina Mhyana

The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret. — Lily Gardner

'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans! — Adela Popescu

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along. — Charlie Wilson

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met. — Philip Yancey

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. — K.d. Lang

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty. — Henry Hazlitt

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine. — Al Lewis

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence. — Chuck Norris

Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes. — Sharon Gannon

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater. — Sarah Jessica Parker

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart. — John Edward Williams

Six years-six little years-six drops of time. — Matthew Arnold

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely. — Eric Bana

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge