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dog cat animal
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred North Whitehead
dog years doubt
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months. Aldous Huxley
dog atheist fear
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley
dog lions silliness
Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not. Alexander McCall Smith
dog angel thinking
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence. Alexander Pope
dog time calendars
Dogs, ye have had your day! Alexander Pope
dog curiosity littles
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us? Alexander Pope
dog thinking sky
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Alexander Pope
dog husband loss
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. Alexander Pope
heart first-love thinking
Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation. Clint Eastwood
heart our-world suffering
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving. Alicia Keys
heart thinking eggs
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks. Alice Thomas Ellis
heart giving people
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine. Alice Walker
heart wish expect-nothing
Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart. Alice Walker
heart laughing humour
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. Alice Walker
heart people imagination
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart. Alice Walker
heart worry trying
So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart. Alice Walker
heart broken open-heart
You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken. Alice Walker
smell bread taste
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. George Herbert