Famous Quotes & Sayings

River Phoenix

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

William Ralph Inge

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Neal Barnard

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."

Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Norman Mailer

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

Nhat Hanh

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

Molly Ivins

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Samuel Johnson

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Set theory in sheep's clothing.

Rudyard Kipling

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Zhuangzi

If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

Winston Churchill

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

Wendell Berry

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

Yehuda Amichai

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Richelle Mead

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Russell Brand

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Rose McIver

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Troye Sivan

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

Trip Hawkins

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Travis Barker

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

Reid Scott

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.