A Quotes
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“An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.”
“An angry lover tells himself many lies.”
“An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.”
“An angry man is a defeated man because he makes costly and regrettable mistakes. Yes, he misses the right takes and takes the wrong ones.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“An angry man is always a stupid man.”
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“An angry man is full of poison.”
“An angry man is unfit to pray.”
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”
“An angry person is always full of poison.”
“An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.”
“An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.”
“An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.”
“An animal can be many things. Sometimes, that distinction can be a matter of life and death.”
Source: Menagerie: Stories
“An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.”
“An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.”
“An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.”
“An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.”
“An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”
Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell
“An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body.”
Source: Flight Behavior
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels
“An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
“An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.”
“An animal running with all its might while being hunted is a big proof that they love their precious life. Save lives. Avoid being a contributor in taking lives.”
“An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.”
“An animal that acted out of character was an animal you should avoid, like the bear. It was fear and confusion that had made it attack the people. Things like sickness or fear or greed made an animal act that way, and you did not want any part of it. It was impossible to know how to prepare when the next movements were not predictable.”
Source: Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland
“An animal that can successfully deceive has the upper hand over one who always tells the truth.”
Source: The Wisdom of Loki: The Art of Lying in the Natural World
“An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.”
Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”
“An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.”
“An animal without character is merely animal, but a human without character is worse than animal.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Source: I and Thou
“An animal’s memory is not in words, they’ve got to be in pictures – it’s very detailed so let’s say the animal gets afraid of something. Like, for example you beat the dog up and they're looking at you and your Nike shoes or any sneaker or anything like a Nike, he's likely to be afraid of that - so anything without that Nike wingtip, he's likely to be fine. If you think about it, that's a different picture, than a Nike type shoe. Its specific because its sensory based.”
“An Animated Cartoon Theology:
1. People are animals.
2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.”
“An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.”
“An animator is an actor with a pencil.”
“An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.”
“An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.”
“An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."”
“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.”
Source: The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale
“An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.”
“An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.”
“An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.”
“An annuity is a very serious business.”
“An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.”
Source: Healology
“An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.”
Source: A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem
“An anonymous goddess. Her phone is both a video camera and the sharpest pitchfork in the room, shoeing away the big monster.”
Source: In Limbo
“An anonymous prank is one of the most efficacious ways to enforce discipline. A prank performed with appropriate finesse avoids a direct confrontation and the resulting laughter elicited from a prank informs the offender that their actions are unacceptable. The utilitarian aim of laughter is group improvement. A practical joke must avoid verging on cruelty.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls